February 2015

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 […]

The product group released the February 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. For February 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 February Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP2 hotfix. It is required […]

The product group released the February 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For February 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 […]

If you would like to get first information about SharePoint 2016 I would recommend the following two blog posts: Evolution of SharePoint – from Julia White, general manager for the Office Product Management team The SharePoint related session list from Microsoft Ingite in Chicage  Top 3 sessions to learn more about SharePoint Server 2016 at […]