Contacts Management Template by default returns all names beginning with the letter R

Hi  Guys a very Interesting issue with the Sharepoint Template Contacts Management provided by Microsoft .

 Today i came accross an issue where in the user was using the Contacts Management Template

And by default it returns all names beginning with the letter R.

Resolution -
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There is a very easy fix for this

You need to edit : http://yourserver/contacts/Results.aspx in Sharepoint Designer.

The list of contacts is provided by a Data View web part which contains the following line:

<ParameterBinding Name="SearchQS" Location="QueryString(Search)" DefaultValue="r"/>

Remove the letter ‘r’ and refresh your page, now no contacts will show up by default.

Microsoft Support Lifecycle

If you are still using Sharepoint 2007 be aware that mainstream support for this product will end at October 9th, 2012. You can check the same on the below link

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=11373  

Extended support will be provided till October 10th, 2017.

That means that no new hotfixes will be created for WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 after October 9th, 2012 - except security fixes.For for details about the difference between Mainstream support and Extended Support see the below link

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy