December 2015 CU for SharePoint 2010 is available for download

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   Demetris
   On 9. December 2015 Permalink

   With SharePoint 2010 out of mainstream support since October, how much longer are CUs and other fixes going to be provided?

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      Stefan Goßner
      On 9. December 2015 Permalink

      Hi Demetris,
      security fixes for SharePoint 2010 will be provided till end of extended support – so roughly another 5 years.
      Regarding non-security fixes: there is still a backlog of hotfix requests which were requested and accepted before end of mainstream support. Till this backlog is processes there will be CUs but the number of non-security fixes in these CUs will get smaller and smaller from month to month.
      Cheers,
      Stefan

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2. 

   Zahed
   On 21. January 2016 Permalink

   After installing this CU (KB3114408 for SP2010) the version number displaced in Central Admin is 14.0.7162.5000, when it should be 14.0.7164.5000, it’s indicating Number CU.
   This has happened on two of out test environments, just wondering if there is a bug in the CU?

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      Stefan Goßner
      On 21. January 2016 Permalink

      Hi Zahed,
      your assumption is wrong. In December CU the database schema version has not changed so the version number will be the same as in November CU.
      See here for details:
      https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/stefan_gossner/2014/10/23/common-question-why-does-the-version-number-on-the-servers-in-farm-page-not-change-after-installing-october-cu/
      Cheers,
      Stefan

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   Danny
   On 4. February 2016 Permalink

   Hi Stefan.
   I have a clean install of SharePoint 2010 with slipstreamed SP2. When I try to install this CU I get the error:
   The expected version of the product was not found on the system
   Any ideas?

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      Stefan Goßner
      On 8. February 2016 Permalink

      Hi Danny,
      do you have any language packs installed? Might be that SP2 for one of the language packs is missing on your system.
      You can run the following powershell script to check the patch baseline:
      http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2015/04/20/powershell-script-to-display-version-info-for-sharepoint-product-and-language-packs.aspx
      Cheers,
      Stefan

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         Danny
         On 11. February 2016 Permalink

         Hi Stefan,
         It was indeed the version of a language pack that was causing the problem. It was installed but wasn’t applied. After running PSconfig again it works.

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4. 

   Mathias Schmidt
   On 6. May 2016 Permalink

   I installed this CU and started psconfig in the cmd. But I ve only seen 10% finished for ages. No Error. I only found this in my Log.
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Entering function StringResourceManager.GetResourceString
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Resource id to be retrieved is UpgradeTimerJobStatus for language German (Germany)
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Resource retrieved id UpgradeTimerJobStatus is Im Prozess des Timerdiensts wird ein Upgrade der Farm ausgeführt. Der Task ist zu {0:F2} % abgeschlossen.
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Leaving function StringResourceManager.GetResourceString
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Entering function TaskBase.OnTaskNotify
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Creating the OnTaskNotify event for task upgrade
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Entering function TaskBase.FireTaskNotify
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Firing the OnTaskNotify event for task upgrade
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Entering function PsconfigBaseForm.TaskNotifyEventHandler
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Invoking the UI thread with the task notification event
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 1 INF Entering function ConfigurationProgressForm.InvokeTaskNotifyEventHandler
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 1 INF A NotifyEventArgs event received in TaskNotifyEventHandler. Task: upgrade NotifyEventArgs.EventCriticalityType: Im Prozess des Timerdiensts wird ein Upgrade der Farm ausgeführt. Der Task ist zu 10,00 % abgeschlossen. Message: info
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 1 INF Acquiring the reader lock to retrieve the state
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 1 INF Releasing the reader lock to retrieve the state
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 1 INF Acquiring the reader lock to retrieve the state
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 1 INF Releasing the reader lock to retrieve the state
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 1 INF Updating the task notification additional message label
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 1 INF Leaving function ConfigurationProgressForm.InvokeTaskNotifyEventHandler
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Sleeping an extra 1 ms so things don’t go too fast for the user for this task
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Leaving function PsconfigBaseForm.TaskNotifyEventHandler
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Leaving function TaskBase.FireTaskNotify
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF Leaving function TaskBase.OnTaskNotify
   05/04/2016 08:39:09 15 INF SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds

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      Stefan Goßner
      On 6. May 2016 Permalink

      Hi Mathias,
      I would recommend to open a support case with Microsoft to analyze this problem in more detail.
      Cheers,
      Stefan

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