The product group released the September 2016 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For September 2016 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, September 2016 CU includes all fixes from September 2016 PU. […]
SharePoint 2007 Suite: Excel Services for SharePoint 2007 SharePoint 2010 Suite: Excel Services for SharePoint 2010 Word Automation Services for SharePoint 2010 Office Web Apps 2010 SharePoint 2013 Suite: Excel Services for SharePoint 2013 PowerPoint Services for SharePoint 2013 Word Automation Services for SharePoint 2013 Office Web Apps 2013 SharePoint 2016 Suite: Office Online Server […]
Several customers already reported this problems with managed account passwords after installing the MS16-101 August Security updates for Windows. This security update disables the ability of the Negotiate process to fall back to NTLM when Kerberos authentication fails for password change operations. Due to this change it is no longer possible to use the options […]
In case you haven’t seen: Microsoft has announced several new capabilities for SharePoint online team sites on the SharePoint team blog: Team site publishing pages (named Modern team site pages) New web parts Office 365 Groups + team sites integration New site collection limit (25 TB rather than 1 TB) Manageability and extensibility Many more […]
Every other week I receive emails, blog comments, phone calls, … from customers asking about strange behaviors they see in the SharePoint build version of their farm. I have written a couple of articles about this topic but there is still a lot of confusion about “build numbers”, “build version”, “patch level”, … In this […]
Sometimes when patching a SharePoint farm with multiple SharePoint servers the SharePoint Configuration Wizard or the Central Admin complains that one or more servers in the farm are missing a specific fix although this fix has actually been installed on these server. If you read certain blog posts or forum entries you will usually find […]
If PSConfig/PSConfigUI encountered a problem it showed a generic error message and pointed to a PSCDiagnostics log with more details. The challenge for administrators was to locate the actual problem description inside this huge log file. This was not very convenient. The main reason for this behavior is, that the main upgrade work is not […]
The product group released the August 2016 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. The KB articles for August 2016 CU are available at the following location: KB 3115437 – Update for SharePoint Server 2016 August 2016 (language independent) KB 3115441 – Update for SharePoint Server 2016 August 2016 (language dependent fixes) There is […]
The product group released the August 2016 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For August 2016 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 2016 CU includes all fixes from August 2016 PU. […]
As an add-on to my previous blog post about SharePoint Server 2016 Zero Downtime Patching Neil Hodgkinson, Bob Fox and Karl Reigel recorded a video which demonstrates Zero Downtime Patch from Start to Finish: SharePoint Server 2016 Zero Downtime Patching Start to Finish Have a look at the video – the first 10 minutes are more […]
The product group released the July 2016 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. As this is a common question: Yes, July 2016 CU includes all SharePoint security fixes released with July 2016 PU. Be aware that CU is a Post-SP2 hotfix. It is required to have SP2 installed before installing the CU. It […]
SharePoint 2007 Suite: none SharePoint 2010 Suite: Word Automation Services for SharePoint 2010 Office Web Apps 2010 SharePoint 2013 Suite: Word Automation Services for SharePoint 2013 Office Web Apps 2013 SharePoint 2016 Suite: SharePoint Server 2016 Office Online Server 2016 See the security bulletin below for more details and KB number for the relevant fixes: […]
