Be aware that starting April 14th only SharePoint 2013 farms with SP1 are supported. SharePoint 2013 servers/farms without SP1 are no longer supported and hotfixes released beginning with April 2015 cannot be installed on SharePoint 2013 servers without SP1. See here for details: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?p1=16652
A couple of customers already ran into this issue: if you created your farm based on the SharePoint 2013 SP1 slipstream build available on MSDN and VLSC you might not be able to install the latest patches (April CU and PU). The reason is that starting in April the RTM baseline is no longer supported […]
With April PU we have release a small amount of 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: Project Server 2010 Word Automation Services 2010 Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 SharePoint 2013 Suite: SharePoint Foundation […]
The product group released the April 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For April 2015 CU we have full server packages (also known as Uber packages). No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. ATTENTION: In case you have a SharePoint 2013 server based on the SP1 slipstream installation ensure to […]
The product group released the April 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. For April 2015 CU we again have full server packages (also known as Uber packages). No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. Be aware that the April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP2 hotfix. It is required […]
I have answered this question in various different posts already but it seems that these places are not as easy to find as I assumed. So here is the answer to this common question: SharePoint security fixes released at the same date or at a previous date as a specific CU are included in the CU. […]
With March PU we have release several security fixes for SharePoint which are offered through Microsoft Update with March PU. For the following SharePoint products and components fixes have been released: SharePoint 2007 Suite: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 SharePoint 2010 Suite: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Word Automation Services […]
The product group released the March 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. For March 2015 CU we again have full server packages (also known as Uber packages). No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. Be aware that the March Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP2 hotfix. It is required […]
The product group released the March 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For March 2015 CU we have full server packages (also known as Uber packages). No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. ATTENTION: Be aware that all Updates for SharePoint 2013 require SharePoint Server 2013 SP1 OR March 2013 PU for […]
An important change has been introduced since my last post about the changed delivery strategy introduced with February 2015 CU. We want to let everyone know of a change to the patch delivery strategy for Office server products. As of March 2015, all Office product updates will be offered via Microsoft Update except for non-security updates for server […]
Starting Februar 2015 PU timeframe as well security and non-security related fixes for SharePoint are offered through Windows Update. To allow easier identification of the security fixes I'm documenting them in this separate blog post: SharePoint 2010 Security Fixes released with February 2015 PU (MS15-012): KB 2920810 – Security Fix for SharePoint Server 2010 Affected Component: Word […]
Be aware that starting with February 2015 CU SharePoint Product Updates including non-security product updates will be made available via Windows Update. E.g. for February CU the following fixes are offered through windows update for SharePoint 2013: The fixes shipped using windows update are the individual package release in a given CU. The fixes […]
