Hotfix Info

The product group has released updated packages for the October 2010 Cumulative Update. The new packages contain a fix for the problem reported earlier. The updated fixes can be be found at the following locations: KB 2394323 – SharePoint Foundation 2010 – only listed for completeness as this fix was not affected by the Problem and […]

Recently we discovered a problem related to user profiles when installing the October 2010 CU for SharePoint Server 2010. The October Cumulative Update makes some changes and updates to the user profile database. Unfortunately there are certain situations where this update does not complete as expected and leaves the update in an inconsistent state.  This causes […]

The product group recently launched some additional product-specific update pages for the 2010 product family which you might want to bookmark: Updates for SharePoint 2010 Products Updates for Project Server 2010 – live since October 19th Updates for Enterprise Search Products – live since October 24th Related Links: Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related […]

Cross posting info about an important update for ASP.NET which will address an issue that affects all ASP.NET applications including SharePoint and MCMS. [cross post from Microsoft Security Response Center blog] Today we provided advance notification to customers that we will release an out-of-band security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 2416728. […]

Microsoft has communicated an update on the retirement date for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The official retirement date is July 13th. That means roughly 3 additional months compared to the normal retirement timeframe of “Next Service Pack release date plus 12 months”. Official information can be found on the Microsoft lifecycle page.

As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called February 2010 Cumulative Update. It is highly recommended to install Service Pack 2 before installing this cumulative Update Details and download locations can […]

Here is some information from the Microsoft lifecycle page for WSS 3.0: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 11/12/2007 Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product’s support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy at https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/#ServicePackSupport. WSS 3.0 […]