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Last week Microsoft posted the Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2007. For Office Groove there a two different Service Packs of Office 2007. One is for the Client side and the other is for the Servers side.

So for the complete Groove experience you will need both Service Packs. I have installed both packages within our Groove environment and I had no problems what so ever when implementing it.

A great fix is the Sharepoint tool fix in the Groove Client. We had the problem that when we made changes in the Sharepoint library, the changes did not sync to Groove, visa versa it worked just fine. But with SP1 this problem was addressed.

One thing is to bad, the security loophole that Kevin found (click here) is not addressed yet.
Let’s hope that it will be in the next Service Pack or the new Office Groove version in the future.

Below you will find the fixes in Groove. First you will see the client fixes and second you will see the Groove servers fixes.

Client updates:

• Groove KB935874
  When you try to restore your account in Groove 2007, the account is not available. This problem occurs if the account backup file is more than 60 days old.
• Groove KB935874
  You have an auto-activation feature configured on your Groove domain. When you try to enable a Groove 2007 account by clicking an invitation file (.grv), you are notified that you do not have an account configured. Additionally, you may receive a dialog box that prompts you to type an activation key.
• Groove
  When you exit Groove 2007, you receive the following error message:
  Invalid access to memory location
• Groove
  When you open a file from the Files tool, you receive a “Groove Unsaved File Alert” message even though no file is open. Additionally, the message blocks the Groove 2007 shutdown process.
• Groove
  You synchronize Groove 2007 with a server that is running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Then, you add some new content to a SharePoint site. When you complete the synchronization, Groove remains unsynchronized.
• Groove
  When you type t in the Groove 2007 chat tool on a computer that is running the German version of Windows Server 2003, the chat tool switches from text mode to ink mode.
• Groove Security Update 936227
  MS07-042: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution

Servers updates:

• Groove KB941092
  Microsoft Office Groove Data Bridge Server 2007 stops responding if all the following conditions are true: • The server that is running Groove Data Bridge Server 2007 is also running the Subscription Manager service.
  - A Web service creates a new record. The record creates an event that has an attribute of type string.
  - The Subscription Manager service on the server tries to enqueue an event that has the XML representation of the new record attached to it.
• Groove
  When Subscription Manager queues an event that has too much binary data, Storage Manager ends the Groove Data Bridge (GDB) process.
• Groove
  You restart Internet Information Services (IIS) on a computer that is running Microsoft Office Groove Manager Server 2007. When you do this, the following error message is logged in the Application log:
  The description for Event ID ( 200 ) in Source ( GrooveManagementServer ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: <IID></IID><Details Process=”w3wp.exe” HRESULT=”0×80004005″ EventMessage=”Groove Management Server beta period expired.”
  However, Groove Manager Server continues to operate.
  Note This issue may occur on a computer on which the beta software was never installed.
• Groove
  If the Windows Firewall service is enabled but the firewall is off, the Groove Relay Server 2007 startup process stops responding. This issue does not occur if the firewall is disabled or if the firewall is fully enabled.

You can download the bits for the Office 2007 client here and for the Office 2007 Servers here.

So now Groove is again a bit better then before, isn’t life sweet!!!!

Happy Holidays,  

Jeroen

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