SP2 and should you install itt?

I came across the SP2 for MOSS and WSS and was interested in installing it on our corporate Intranet installation of WSS. I upgraded the test environment without any issues (other than an authentication issue, but that is my fault). I was then thinking about installing it on the Internet-facing installation of MOSS.



Good thing I didn't.



I came across a bunch off blog posts over the last few weeks and the Microsoft KB article saying that installing the service pack will reactivate the trial expiration date on MOSS and after 180 days MOSS will not be available to end-users.



I have to step back here for a minute and wonder if anyone in the Office realm of Microsoft tests any of the items they push out as Service Packs? It seems to me that you would test the code that you are going to send out to your clients to install in production environments. I realize this would not pop up until after 180 days passed, but I would hope that some testing goes into these things.



If you want to proceed with installing Service Pack 2 and "beta testing" for Microsoft, you will want to follow the procedure outlined in this KB article to make sure you don't lose functionality after 180 days.