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.