Over on the SharePoint Team blog they have published details of an update that resolves the product expiration issue with SP2. A quick quote from their blog:

The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation.  If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2.

Also they plan on releasing an updated SP2 package that doesn't exhibit this problem, time to update my slipstreamed install sources...

SharePoint SP2 will expire 180 after implementation of the service pack.

Taken from the SharePoint team blog ....

"During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date passes. Furthermore, product expiration 180 days after SP2 installation will not affect customer’s data, configuration or application code but will render SharePoint inaccessible for end-users"

A KB article has been released on this and a fix is being worked on quickly!

We all make mistakes ...

Announced, and sure to be a popular download.

Firstly, there is a ton of information released on this service pack and the SharePoint team have done well to list it.

the packs...

WSS Specific Download Locations
•  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B 
•  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)
•  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=085E5AC8-58F6-4CF9-8012-33B95EE36C0F
•  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2C2B6CAF-B46D-45EB-AC4D-DEAAA48C3A2C
MOSS Specific download locations are here:
2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x86)
•  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082
•  2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082
•  2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01C6A3E8-E110-4956-903A-AD16284BF223 
•  2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66C5026F-9F47-4642-8378-2526918009FA

Part of the pack is a tool to check for upgrade issues ready for SharePoint 2010.

For a slightly more in depth post, read Joel's Post on the Service Packs

Details are up on the Microsoft Update Product Team blog about SP2 for the Microsoft Office System which includes WSS and MOSS. You'll have to scroll past the desktop appllications info to get to the server info though. More info expected both on this and the Office Sustained Engineering blog. No doubt the SharePoint Team blog will have something too .