What version of SharePoint am I running?

There is a very useful post by Penny Coventry, author of Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step By Step, on the books website. It allows you to translate the SharePoint version number to the actual patches that have been applied.

http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/Blog/Articles/How%20To%20find%20the%20SharePoint%20version.aspx

Thanks Penny!

WSS and MOSS August CU Issue

You may have heard that the WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 August CU is now available. It is, and can be found here:

WSS:

973400 The full server package for WSS
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;973400

MOSS:

973399 The full server package for MOSS
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;973399

However, there is an issue with the update that causes you not to be able to attach databases of earlier versions. This means that if you are doing an upgrade or server migration you should not install this update on the destination server unless it has already been applied to the incoming content databases.

Microsoft’s current solution is as follows:

• Attach your databases on a June CU SharePoint Installation. My recommended environment would be Hyper-V and using snapshots.
• Upgrade to August CU. Remember that you can run PSCONFIG from command-line more than one time if timeout or others happened.
• Detach the databases.
• The databases are now on August CU level and a re-attach to an already patched SharePoint installation with August CU should work.