How to install Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 February uber update on SP1

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Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 February uber update

Pre-installation

• Schedule the installation of the software update for a time that causes the least amount of disruption for your users.
  
• Remove the Web servers that run WSS 3.0 from service for the duration of the software update installation.
  
• You can install the software update by logging on to the server directly or by connecting through a Terminal Services console session.
  
• Stop the World Wide Web publishing service (W3SVC) on all front-end Web servers to disconnect all the users from the server farm.
  
• Back up the server farm before you start the software update installation.

Installation

1. Disconnect users from the server farm by stopping the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) on all Web servers.
   
2. Download and install the appropriate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software update for all servers in your server farm.
   Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
   
3. At the end of the software update installation, the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard starts.
   
4. On the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard Welcome page, click Next.
   
5. In the dialog box that notifies you that some services might have to be restarted during configuration, click Yes.
   
6. On the Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard page, click Next.
   
7. When the dialog box about installation in a server farm opens, do not click OK. Instead, leave each server with the following dialog box displayed:
   

   You must run Setup to install new binary files for every server in your server farm. If you have multiple servers in your server farm, run Setup and the configuration wizard on the other servers now, and then return to this server and click OK to continue.

8. When the dialog box from the previous step is displayed on all Web servers in the server farm, use one Web server that hosts the Central Administration Web site to finalize the installation.
   
9. On the server you selected in the previous step, click OK.
   
10. In the Configuration Successful dialog box, click Finish.
    
11. After you finish updating one Web server that hosts the Central Administration Web site, follow the procedures to Verify update completion and success to ensure that the software update installation on this one Web server was successful.
    
    • View the upgrade log file. In addition to viewing the results of the installation in Upgrade.log file, you can use this logfile to troubleshoot a failed installation.
    • Check version numbers on certain files and registry keys. If you have to investigate the success of the software update installation in more depth, use this procedure to verify version numbers on certain files and verify certain keys in the registry.
    • Examine the SQL schema. You can also verify that the software update installation was successful by using SQL Query Analyzer to examine the SQL Server schema. Although the version of the DLL files and the registry are updated during the first part of an upgrade — when the files are being copied — the SQL Server schema is only upgraded after the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard is run. Use this procedure to determine whether the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard was run after the software update.
    • View the version number on the Servers in Farm page. You can use the SharePoint Central Administration Web site to view the version number on the Servers in Farm page. However, note that this page only displays the version number for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
    
    
12. Continue updating the remaining computers in the server farm, one at a time, by clicking OK in the dialog box.
    
13. When the software update installation and configuration is complete on all the Web servers in the server farm, make the Web servers available to users by manually starting the World Wide Web Publishing service on each server on which you manually stopped the service.

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February Cumulative uber update packages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 contain hotfixes for the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 issues that have been fixed since the release of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. You do not have to restart the server after you apply this cumulative update package unless there was already a restart pending. You do not have to update the registry entries to install this cumulative update package.