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Email: DoG

BetaID: ******


Dear Valued Office 2003 Technical Beta Participant,

Important! Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Announcement

We are pleased to announce the Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh is now available. Go to www.betaplace.com and click on the Beta 2 Technical Refresh downloads link.

The Betaplace downloads page provides Beta 2 Technical Refresh patches for the Beta 2 build of Office 2003, Publisher 2003, FrontPage 2003, OneNote 2003 and InfoPath 2003. A Multilingual User Interface Pack refresh patch is also available. Refresh builds of Visio 2003 and Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003, as well as SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services are included as full file downloads.

The download and installation may be a several step process if you installed multiple applications from the ?Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Kit 2003?. Please review the Known Issues list on www.betaplace.com for help with setup and installation issues, as well as notes on other applications in the Beta 2 Technical Refresh.

When filing bugs, please note that a new product build ?B2TR (build 5329)? has been entered in the product release field. In addition, Visio is now listed as a product in the product area field. A new newsgroup node has also been created in the o11iep and o11oep newsgroup trees for Visio related issues.

If you have questions or encounter problems please go to the appropriate Microsoft Office 2003 beta newsgroup (microsoft.beta.o11oep.xxxxx or microsoft.beta.o11iep.xxxxx) or for beta administration issues please email onetprp@microsoft.com.

If you need updates to other products, you may find them through the beta or trial evaluation programs specific to that product:

www.microsoft.com/windows/default.mspx
www.microsoft.com/exchange

Thank You,
The Microsoft Office System Team

Hey DoG, get off the site so MY DL goes faster than the 20k I am getting now!!
lmao!

wase4711

Beat you to it at last :D

:rtfm:

Where can I get the update? Thanks.

It's available from www.betaplace.com, just log in with your beta id and password :)

I don't have access to the site, as well as getting on.

Ahhhh, you would be asking for a user and pass for betaplace then. Sorry, i would be kind of foolish to give that out.

latest update info, as of Saturday, 535am, Central Time, USA...

The Office 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh contains improvements that were made using error reports submitted by Beta users. This Technical Refresh updates the following Office Professional 2003 Beta 2 applications: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Access, and also adds InfoPath and Publisher to the suite. If you installed the Beta 2 versions of FrontPage, OneNote, Publisher, or InfoPath standalone products, you will also need to install their corresponding updates in order for all of the applications to work correctly.

Included on BetaPlace are the following:

Office Professional Beta 2 Technical Refresh Patch

Publisher 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Patch

InfoPath 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Patch

FrontPage 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Patch

OneNote 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Patch

Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack Beta 2 Technical Refresh Patch

Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh - Full Build

Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh - Full Build

Windows® SharePoint? Services Beta 2 Technical Refresh

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Updated: Microsoft has confirmed that BetaPlace is currently experiencing down time. Although we're unsure when the servers will resume normal service, rest assured the matter is being dealt with.

would really appreciate if you guys can share some screenshots. thanks very much. :)

Will do, McoreD, once the site is up again, and we can actually grab and install this thing!
Servers are currently down...


wase4711