Hotfix Info

With September 2015 PU we have released security fixes 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: none SharePoint 2013 Suite: SharePoint Foundation 2013 Excel Services 2013 Access Services 2013 Microsoft Office Web Apps 2013 See the security bulletin […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

With June 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: SharePoint Foundation 2010 Word Automation Services 2010 Excel Services 2010 Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 SharePoint 2013 Suite: none See […]