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Internet Explorer, SharePoint, init.js error

Ben — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:38:13 +0000

The other day I had an annoying problem accessing SharePoint sites. I am running Windows 7, IE8 and Office 2007 and Office 2010 Beta.

Any internal SharePoint site continued to throw the error of element not found for init.js

It only happened on my desktop (my laptop worked just fine). I tried clearing the temporary internet files, browser cache, even uninstalling and reinstalling IE8.

Nothing worked, I finally found the solution here – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/41e1874f-7825-4bfe-ba4c-37255d198df2

So, I opened up SharePoint Designer 2007, ran the diagnostic tool in the Help menu, restarted IE and everything was back to working as normal.

SharePoint 2007 SP2 and Office 2007 SP2 are here!

Ben — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:26:15 +0000

True to their word, Microsoft release SP2 for their Office suite today. It includes SP2 for Office 2007, WSSv3 and MOSS 2007. For a little more detail on the updates, SharePoint Joel has a great blog post.

Of, if you just prefer to go straight to the downloads the links are below:

Office 2007 SP2

Office 2007 Language Pack SP2

WSSv3 SP2

WSSv3 Language Pack SP2

MOSS 2007 SP2

MOSS 2007 Language Pack SP2 (x86)

MOSS 2007 Language Pack SP2 (x64)

Office 2007 SP2 Right around the Corner, Office “14” will be Office 2010

Ben — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:04:55 +0000

Lots of news on the Microsoft Office front today so I decided to add a blog post instead of just twittering about it.

The first items comes from a recent posting by www.microsoft-watch.com. Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 will be release in two weeks, on April 28. Two of the largest changes are the PDF/XPS printer will now be included automatically in SP2 rather than the separate add-on download/install that it is now. The second improvement is the added support of ODF (Open Document Format) documents. The list of improvements and bug fixes is long, but those are the two major ones in my opinion.

The second one is that Office “14” is going to be Office 2010. There was a posting earlier about it, that also receive some doubt about it’s validity. However, this posting by Mary-Jo Foley seems to confirm that the initial posting was accurate, even if the screen shot wasn’t valid.

I’m not going to go on way or the other on the validity of the screen shot, but needless to say, there were plenty of very strong indicators that the next version of Office will indeed by Office 2010.