The product group released the April 2016 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. This is the first CU for SharePoint Server 2016 after RTM. The KB article for April 2016 CU is available at the following location: KB 2920721 – SharePoint Server 2016 April 2016 CU The download for April 2016 CU is […]
Today SharePoint 2016 has been released to manufacturing. Project Server 2016 which is distributed as part of SharePoint Server 2016 is also RTM now. This is an important milestone in the delivery of this significant release, which includes new capabilities for users, IT pros and administrators, as well as the next generation of hybrid capabilities […]
Building on our announcement of SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 in November, we’re pleased to announce the availability of SharePoint Server 2016 Release Candidate (RC). SharePoint Server 2016 RC is mostly feature complete and represents an important milestone for customers and partners looking to deploy and evaluate SharePoint Server 2016 before general availability in Spring […]
You have an issue you would like to see addressed in SharePoint – either on-premise or in SharePoint Online? The SharePoint product group is listening to your suggestions! In order to pass your suggestion to the product group just enter it on SharePoint Uservoice. Here you as user can also review suggestions from other customers […]
The product group just announced the public Beta 2 of SharePoint 2016 and Project Server 2016. See all the details in the following official blog post: https://blogs.office.com/2015/11/18/announcing-sharepoint-server-2016-beta-2-and-project-server-2016-beta-2/ Technet Resources on SharePoint 2016 Beta 2 can be found here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422(v=office.16).aspx
Bill Baer (Senior Product Marketing Manager for SharePoint) has recently posted several great articles about various different aspects of SharePoint 2016. Below is an overview over these articles: Sensitive Information Types in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview One of the key improvements to eDiscovery in SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview is the introduction on Sensitive […]
This is a very common question: “I just installed some security fixes for SharePoint – do I have to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard?” The simple answer is: You should run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard (psconfigui.exe or psconfig.exe with the correct parameters) after all SharePoint fixes! The more complex answer is here: SharePoint Configuration Wizard […]
[via Bob Fox] In April, we broadly announced our vision, strategy, timeline and investment in three major areas: familiar and intuitive user experiences, cloud-inspired infrastructure with hybrid at the core and robust security and compliance for SharePoint Server 2016. Today we’re excited to announce availability of both SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and the new […]
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 […]
Bill Baer talks about changes related to Installation and Deployment of SharePoint 2016. Changes include the following topics: System Requirements Deployment Scenarios Operating System Requirements .NET Framework version SharePoint Prerequisites Database Server Requirements Server Roles New SharePoint Health Analyzer Health Rules Upgrade and Migration from SP2013 Read more on his blog.
Bill Baer talks about changes related to Installation and Deployment of SharePoint 2016. Changes include the following topics: System Requirements Deployment Scenarios Operating System Requirements .NET Framework version SharePoint Prerequisites Database Server Requirements Server Roles New SharePoint Health Analyzer Health Rules Upgrade and Migration from SP2013 Read more on his blog.
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. […]
