Detailed reports on major vulnerabilities of Microsoft SharePoint Products

Last Friday, Microsoft issued a formal warning on critical vulnerabilities of the latest SharePoint Enterprise Information Portal product. When a service package is upgraded, this vulnerability will incorrectly activate the expiration date. Therefore, SharePoint will expire 180 days after the investigational device of the service package is installed. Microsoft claims that the vulnerability does not affect SharePoint performance until the substitutes expire. Microsoft also said that the customer information will not be affected, even if the product has expired, the company will not provide end users SharePoint Portal.

Microsoft said that the vulnerability has been manually repaired and is still trying to fix it automatically. There may be many friends who are not quite familiar with what the SharePoint product is for. Let's briefly introduce it:

SharePoint Portal Server uses the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site to create Portal pages for individuals, information, and companies. These pages can be used by companies and administrative tools to expand the functions of the Windows SharePoint Services site and enable the team to publish information to the entire enterprise on their site.

I will not go into details about the features of this product. Friends who have used this product are definitely more professional than me. Friends who have never used it but are interested can also search for all the information about this product. Fortunately, this vulnerability does not affect user information and security, and provides detailed solutions this time.

According to Microsoft's statement, in addition to MOSS 2007 users, other products will also be affected by Service Pack problems. These products include "Project Server 2007, Form Server 2007, Search Server 2008, and Search Server 2008 Express ."

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is not affected. This statement will be added later. Microsoft is currently working on fixing programs and a knowledge base to correct SP2 problems. Basically, the activation of the product with SP2 update and reset is like a trial version of the software has been installed.

IT professionals who have installed SP2 can take a closer look at the blog updates of the Microsoft SharePoint Team. The knowledge base is expected to be released within 48 hours. Microsoft plans to describe an alternative solution in its Knowledge Base Article. "The user who wants to solve this problem will need to re-enter the product ID number ." The SharePoint Team explained in their blog. Users can search for their product IDs on Microsoft's batch Licensing Service Center webpage.

According to Microsoft, data is not affected by the SP2 issue. However, the software stops working for the end user after 180 days if the patch or alternative method is not applicable. For users who try to install MOSS or Windows SharePoint Services on Windows Server 2008 R2, you need to use the SP2 version of the application, according to Microsoft's blog.

Microsoft released the MOSS 2007 and Office server product SP2 for the first time at the end of April. In this case, the worst case is that the first user who installed SP2 has used 24 days of the 180-day "test period.