Partner Guidance for Daylight Savings Time Changes
What is the issue for my customers?
The change in daylight saving time (DST) may impact many technology products that are currently used for scheduling, time calculating, transaction logging, and billing.
Making the necessary changes to accommodate the new DST legislation will frequently be a minor task. In other cases, significant efforts may be required: systems and applications may have to be updated directly. Software applications may merely inherit or "read" the date and time information from the underlying system that it resides on so the changes need to be made only to that underlying system. Given the broad range of technology being used today — and the integration of systems between customers, vendors, and partners — business and IT managers should determine what actions should be taken to lessen the effects of DST 2007 on their organizations.
Microsoft is dedicated to working with customers and partners to make this transition as seamless as possible for companies and organizations that are affected by these new time changes. Please check this page at least weekly to make sure that you have the latest information available.
What products are affected? Several Microsoft products are affected by the 2007 daylight saving time change. If you or your customers are running any of the products in the following list, you should review the guidance published on the Microsoft DST Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007 to determine the steps you should take.
Products requiring updates include:
Windows Server
Windows Server 2003 SP1
Windows Server 2003
Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 4
Windows Embedded for Point of Service
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
Windows Client
Windows XP Home SP2
Windows XP Professional SP2
Exchange Server
Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Exchange Server 2003 Lotus Notes Connector
Exchange Server 2000
Exchange Conferencing Server 2000
Outlook
Outlook 2007
Outlook 2003
Outlook 2002 (Outlook XP)
Outlook 2000
Windows SharePoint Services
Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
SQL Server Notification Services
SQL Server 2005 Notification Services
SQL Server 2000 Notification Services
Office Live Meeting
Office Live Meeting
Dynamics CRM
Dynamics CRM 3.0 (as of March 2007)
Visual SourceSafe
Visual SourceSafe 2005 and 6.0d
Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile
Windows CE
Windows CE-based devices
Entourage
Entourage