Many customers reported problems when installing August 2015 CU for SharePoint 2013. In the middle of the installation the installer suddenly stops with the following generic message: The installation of this package failed. This is a very generic error which can be caused by various different reasons but the specific problem in August CU is […]
[via Bob Fox] In April, we broadly announced our vision, strategy, timeline and investment in three major areas: familiar and intuitive user experiences, cloud-inspired infrastructure with hybrid at the core and robust security and compliance for SharePoint Server 2016. Today we’re excited to announce availability of both SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and the new […]
With August 2015 CU for SharePoint 2013 Microsoft added cloud hybrid search capability to SharePoint Server 2013.With cloud hybrid search, you index all your crawled content, including on-premises content, to your search index in Office 365. When users query your search index in Office 365, they get search results from both on-premises and Office 365 […]
Just today a nice person posted a comment on my blog explaining an issue some customers were running into which was most likely caused by the fact that these customers were using PSCONFIG.EXE rather than PSCONFIGUI.EXE after installing a CU. PSCONFIGUI.EXE is the UI based configuration wizard which performs several tasks one after the other […]
SharePoint 2013 SP1 is supported on .NET framework 4.6 but there is a known issue when installing SharePoint 2013 on top of .NET framework 4.6 During the installation the installer verifies if .NET framework 4.5 is available and fails to install SharePoint 2013 if .NET framework 4.6 is installed. The reason is that .NET framework […]
With August 2015 PU we have released a security fix for SharePoint which are offered through Microsoft Update. For the following SharePoint products and components fixes have been released: SharePoint 2007 Suite: none SharePoint 2010 Suite: Word Automation Services 2010 Word Web Apps 2010 SharePoint 2013 Suite: Word Automation Services 2013 Microsoft Office Web Apps 2013 […]
The product group released the August 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For August 2015 CU we have full server packages (also known as Uber packages). No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. As this is a common question: Yes, August 2015 CU includes all fixes from August 2015 PU. […]
The product group released the August 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. For August 2015 CU we have full server packages (also known as Uber packages). No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. As this is a common question: Yes, August 2015 CU includes all SharePoint security fixes released with August 2015 […]
Just a heads-up in case that you still have SharePoint environments running on SharePoint 2010: Mainstream support for SharePoint 2010 will end on October 13th, 2015: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?p1=14944 After this date only security fixes will be provided for SharePoint 2010. That means if you are running into an issue after October 13th which is caused by […]
An important information was published with one of the individual July 2015 KB articles for SP2013 (KB 3054926) – and therefore potentially very good hidden: July 2015 CU for SharePoint 2013 changes the database schema for the analytics reporting database. The change was required to support URLs with up to 4000 characters length. The caveat with this […]
With July 2015 PU we have released a security fix for SharePoint which are offered through Microsoft Update. For the following SharePoint products and components fixes have been released: SharePoint 2007 Suite: Excel Services 2007 SharePoint 2010 Suite: Excel Services 2010 SharePoint 2013 Suite: Excel Services 2013 See the security bulletin MS15-070 below for more details […]
The product group released the July 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For July 2015 CU we have full server packages (also known as Uber packages). No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. As this is a common question: Yes, July 2015 CU includes all fixes from July 2015 PU. […]
