- Posted by karthik on May 22, 2009
Just came across this announcement from the MS SharePoint team regarding MOSS Service Pack 2. If you have installed this or are planning on installing this, please be aware of the bug that is currently awaiting a hotfix.
"During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date passes. Furthermore, product expiration 180 days after SP2 installation will not affect customer’s data, configuration or application code but will render SharePoint inaccessible for end-users. "
Apparently, the install of MOSS SP2 will turn a fully licensed version of MOSS into a "trial version". This issue affects ONLY MOSS SP2 and NOT WSS 3.0 SP2 for obvious reasons.
Of all things they could have messed up, they introduced a bug that converted paying customers into non-paying customers AFTER the product has already been paid for :) Funny, isn't it!
Check for a supported hotfix to be released soon here.
Happy Long Weekend everyone! Drive safe and enjoy the time off...