SP2, epic fail

Well its not as epic a failure as the title suggests, but it is a bit of unnecessary bad publicity for sure. It seems there is an issue when upgrading MOSS 2007 with Service Pack 2.

The license of your farm is automatically transformed into a SharePoint 2007 evaluation license.

This can be fixed by re-entering your key in the 'Convert License Type' under Operations in Central Administration:




This is a fairly quick fix and Microsoft are working on a hot fix now. To me this isn't really a huge problem however it could have been had they not found this.

You can read more about this here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx