With May PU we have release a number 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: SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint 2010 Suite: SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 Word Automation Services 2010 Excel Services 2010 Microsoft Office Web […]
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 June 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations: KB 2817329 – WSS 3.0 KB 2817328 – MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for June 2013 CU are available through the following links: Download […]
The product group released the April 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations: KB 2799869 – WSS 3.0 KB 2799867 – MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for April 2013 CU are available through the following links: Download […]
I often receive questions on the patching process of SharePoint. The following white paper addresses the often-misunderstood subject of SharePoint Products and Technologies patching. It explains the various types of updates that are available, the release cycle for each type of update and how these updates depend on — and interact with — each other. […]
As I received this question a couple of times in the past here a short summary of the different update types used with SharePoint: Service Pack What is it: A service pack is a combination of previously released fixes, fixes which have only been released in context of the service pack and potentially new […]
The product group released the February 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations: KB 2760816 – WSS 3.0 KB 2760814 – MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for February 2013 CU are available through the following links: Download […]
The product group released the December 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2760571 – WSS 3.0 KB 2760570 – MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for December 2012 CU are available through the following links: Download WSS 3.0 December 2012 CU […]
The product group released the October 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2687535 – WSS 3.0 KB 2687533 – MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for October 2012 CU are available through the following links: Download WSS 3.0 October 2012 CU […]
The product group released the August 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2687331 – WSS 3.0 KB 2687330 – MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for August 2012 CU are available through the following links: Download WSS 3.0 August 2012 CU […]
Recently I had another service request where a customer reported high memory consumption in combination with the famous “Potentially excessive number of SPRequest objects (1007) currently unreleased on thread 17” message. You might notice the very high number (1007) in the message. While analyzing the callstack of the allocation we noticed that all these SPRequest […]
Today I analyzed a memory dump which showed an interesting pattern. Based on the dump several hundred SPRequest objects had been allocated on a single thread for a single request. Each SPRequest object has a pretty large unmanaged COM object behind which controls the connection to the SQL database. So each SPRequest object adds a […]
