Features included in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Basically a service pack (SP) is a collection of updates, fixes and/or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package. Microsoft has also issued two service packs for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Following New Features are included in the WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack1 (SP1):

1. With SP1, WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 can be installed and used with Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.

2. It includes support for AJAX. Now developers can use AJAX to create custom Web Parts. Developers can create Web Parts for asynchronous post pack by using either the Microsoft AJAX 1.0 Control toolkit or the AJAX 1.0 Extensions for ASP.NET.

3. It includes following two new operations for the STSADM command line tool:

• Mergecontentdbs: Permits a site collection to be moved from one content database to another when the parameters souredatabasename and destinationdatabasename are specified.
• Renamesite: Changes a URL of a host-named site collection to a new URL.

4. MOSS 2007 SP1 includes few changes to the properties for the People Picker Web control. Once MOSS 2007 SP1 is installed, you can use the peoplepicker properties with setproperty and getproperty operations to define the scope of the People Picker Web control to an Active Directory® directory service organizational unit.

5. Service Pack 1 also includes over 60 hotfixes across all areas of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. You can find the list of all hotfixes at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942388 and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942390.