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Right of the bat! All SKU's of Office 2007 client and server have shipped. Also, at the same time, the greatest and bestest OS ever has been shipped as well. This is aptly enabled with the "WOW" campaign for both the Office2007 suite as well as Vista.
Yaaayyyyy!

On another note, people with MSDN subscriptions can still download everything above from the downloads section.

Servers + SharePoint + SharePoint Server 2007 (617MB)

  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Arabic)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Dutch)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (English)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (French)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (German)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Hebrew)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Italian)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Japanese)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Korean)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Polish)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Portuguese-Brazil)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Simplified Chinese)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Spanish)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Swedish)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Traditional Chinese)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Thai)

The English 180 day trial of Office SharePoint Server 2007 from download center is available here.

Office Forms Server 2007 (in Server)

  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Arabic)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Dutch)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (English)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (French)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (German)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Hebrew)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Japanese)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Korean)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Italian)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Polish)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Portuguese-Brazil)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Swedish)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Thai)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Simplified Chinese)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Spanish)
  • Office Forms Server 2007 (Traditional Chinese)

No trial is available. Download SharePoint Server Enterprise Trial here to evaluate Forms functionality.

Office SharePoint Designer (in Applications)

  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Arabic)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Dutch)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (English)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (French)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (German)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Hebrew)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Japanese)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Korean)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Italian)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Polish)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Portuguese-Brazil)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Swedish)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Simplified Chinese)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Spanish)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Thai)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Traditional Chinese-Taiwan)
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - DVD (Traditional Chinese-Hong Kong SAR)

The 180 day English trial of Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is available from download center here.

Servers + SharePoint + SharePoint Server 2007 for Search

  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard and Enterprise Editions (German)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard and Enterprise Editions (English)
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard and Enterprise Editions (Japanese)

No trial is available. Download SharePoint Server Standard or Enterprise trial here to evaluate Search functionality. 

ISO Instructions
An ISO-9660 image file is an exact representation of the original installation media, including the content and the logical format. The most common use of an image file is to write it to a blank DVD Recordable disc resulting in an identical copy of the original DVD including file name and volume label information. ISO Images can also be extracted directly to a file location by many Recordable DVD utilities. For more information about image files, please visit the MSDN FAQ.

MOSS AND MOM

Also we have released MOM packs for Office 2007

The MOSS 2007 MOM Pack is now RTM and you can download it here. If you don't have it, we highly recommend the WSS 3.0 MOM Pack as well.

Overview

This Management Pack quickly brings any failures or configuration problems to your attention, which increases the availability and performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This Management Pack also provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage MOM 2005 and get an immediate return on your investment.

Feature Summary:
This Management Pack alerts you about the following critical conditions:
• Shared Services Provider (SSP) provisioning failed
• Site Directory scan job failed
• Enabling features failed on some sites
• Administration site for the SSP is missing
• Enabling features on existing sites failed
• The Office SharePoint Server Search service is not running
• The Microsoft Single Sign-On service is not running
• The Office Document Conversions Launcher service is not running
• Failed to connect to parent server farm
• SSP synchronization failed
• The Office Document Conversions Load Balancer service is not running
• Failures in content deployment jobs
• Poor cache performance
• Error during document copy or move operations
• Errors with the Information Rights Management (IRM) features
• Failures in the Document Conversion feature
• Out of Memory exceptions coming from form business logic
• Denial of Service scenarios
• Failures during form processing or while loading business logic assemblies

TELERIK R.A.D Cross Browser Rich Text Editor for SharePoint 2007 – public beta now available

Microsoft had earlier announced by way of the SharePoint product team blog that Telerik's cross browser rich text editor is the official r.a.d editor for SharePoint 2007 . this Web-based rich text editor extends the web content authoring environment of Office SharePoint Server 2007 by providing cross-browser compatibility (i.e. with Netscape 7.1+ and Mozilla 1.3 browsers) and support for the Macintosh platform (i.e. Safari browser). This special edition of Telerik's market leading editor offers the same functionality as SharePoint's native rich text editor and is provided by Telerik at no cost to all registered customers of Office SharePoint Server 2007.
This r.a.d.editorcan be used in the following scenarios:

· Rich text field control in a SharePoint List

· Rich text editor Web Part

· Web Content Management page

To get the public beta, go to https://www.telerik.com/sharepoint.
For online Q&A and discussion, go to https://www.sharepointcontrols.com/support/forums/forum/b3041S-btc.aspx.

Upgrade ToolKit for WSS2.0 Sites and Templates final release is now available

The upgrade toolkit for WSS2.0 Sites and Templates is finally out the door, and can be found here. This solution accelerator combines three components that will help you effectively plan and upgrade your custom sites and templates to function in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environment. The first is a prescriptive guide that will walk you through the common steps of the upgrade process; the second, a set of scripts that will help you perform common Stsadm tasks in batch and sequential manner; and the third, a set of 63 upgraded 2.0 application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

SharePoint Test Data Load tool

The SharePoint product team has just sanitized and posted a tool to help push sample data into SharePoint 2007 for load testing scenarios.
You can get it here : https://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/301ed832-95da-4251-b266-7be6288f7ea01033.mspx?mfr=true or
here: https://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop or
here: https://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop/Project/FileDownload.aspx?DownloadId=4702

Bear in mind that this is not an officially Microsoft released product and is a community supported tool. Please don't contact product support with any issues you may experience using the tool.  
This is the tool referred to on TechNet as the tool that was used for load testing by the SharePoint Performance test team at Microsoft.
From Codeplex workspace:
"The SharePoint test data population tool (WSSDW.exe) is a capacity planning and performance testing tool that populates data for testing SharePoint deployments. The SharePoint test data population tool is available as a command-line executable program that extracts information about how to populate the server from an XML configuration file, and calls Microsoft .NET assembly: WSSDWLib.dll. "

More updates as and when I receive them. Keep watching this space.

~Harsh