In recent weeks we had a couple of discussions with customers planning to upgrade from SharePoint Server 2016 to SharePoint Server 2019. What was interesting to hear was that some customers were not aware that SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 will both reach end of support on the same day: July 14th, 2026 As SharePoint […]
April 2023 CU includes the new AMSI security feature for SharePoint Server 2016 (see here for details). This functionality caused problems on SharePoint Server 2016 machines installed on top of Windows Server 2012 R2 as AMSI relies on functionality in the Windows operating system which is only available in Windows Server 2016 and later. With […]
Below are the security fixes for the SharePoint OnPrem versions released this month. SharePoint 2013: SharePoint 2013 has reached end of support. No further security fixes will be released for this product. Please update to a supported SharePoint version to ensure that your environment stays secure. SharePoint Server 2016: KB 5002404 – SharePoint Server 2016 […]
The product group released the June 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. This CU also includes Feature Pack 1 which was released with December 2016 CU and Feature Pack 2 which was released with September 2017 CU. The KB articles for June 2023 CU should be available at the following locations in […]
Thanks to several customer reports we identified an additional aspect of the distributed cache problem introduced with January 2023 CU which is not addressed with May 2023 CU. More details including the workaround to resolve the issue can be found in the update section of this blog post: Resolved – Trending Issue: Distributed Cache problems […]
With January 2023 CU for SharePoint Server 2016, 2019 and Subscription Edition we released a security fix which increased the transport security for communications between the SharePoint applications and the distributed cache cluster. This fix introduced a problem for some customers which so far could only be resolved using the workaround described in my blog […]
Below are the security fixes for the SharePoint OnPrem versions released this month. SharePoint 2013: SharePoint 2013 has reached end of support. No further security fixes will be released for this product. Please update to a supported SharePoint version to ensure that your environment stays secure. SharePoint Server 2016: KB 5002397 – SharePoint Server 2016 […]
The product group released the May 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. This CU also includes Feature Pack 1 which was released with December 2016 CU and Feature Pack 2 which was released with September 2017 CU. The KB articles for May 2023 CU should be available at the following locations in […]
In the last couple of days we got several reports from customers which experienced an issue after installing April 2023 CU for SharePoint Server 2016 on servers which are running Windows Server 2012 R2. Background information April 2023 CU includes the new AMSI security feature for SharePoint (see here for details). AMSI relies on functionality […]
Below are the security fixes for the SharePoint OnPrem versions released this month. Important: SharePoint Foundation security fixes also have to be applied on SharePoint Server installations. SharePoint Server security fixes also have to be applied on Project Server installations. SharePoint 2013 Suite: KB 5002383 – SharePoint Foundation 2013 (core component) Microsoft Support recommends to […]
The product group released the April 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. This CU also includes Feature Pack 1 which was released with December 2016 CU and Feature Pack 2 which was released with September 2017 CU. The KB articles for April 2023 CU should be available at the following locations in […]
At the moment we have official documentation available on how to upgrade an existing Microsoft Workflow Manager installation to SharePoint Workflow Manager and how perform a fresh installation of SharePoint Workflow Manager. What is missing are the required steps if an existing Microsoft Workflow Manager should be replaced with a new SharePoint Workflow Manager on […]
