In the last couple of days I have been contacted several times because customers struggled to get their system to the right patch level to allow installation of April 2015 CU to workaround the problem with the patch baseline. To simplify this I have written a small powershell script which retrieves the version information for […]
… Today, we are confirming that SharePoint Server 2016 will become generally available in Q2 2016, with a public beta planned for Q4 2015. We also want to confirm our commitment to delivering on-premises releases of SharePoint for the foreseeable future. We envision a future where we will continue to have customers who choose a […]
Be aware that starting April 14th only SharePoint 2013 farms with SP1 are supported. SharePoint 2013 servers/farms without SP1 are no longer supported and hotfixes released beginning with April 2015 cannot be installed on SharePoint 2013 servers without SP1. See here for details: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?p1=16652
A couple of customers already ran into this issue: if you created your farm based on the SharePoint 2013 SP1 slipstream build available on MSDN and VLSC you might not be able to install the latest patches (April CU and PU). The reason is that starting in April the RTM baseline is no longer supported […]
With April PU we have release a small amount 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: none SharePoint 2010 Suite: Project Server 2010 Word Automation Services 2010 Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 SharePoint 2013 Suite: SharePoint Foundation […]
The product group released the April 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For April 2015 CU we have full server packages (also known as Uber packages). No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. ATTENTION: In case you have a SharePoint 2013 server based on the SP1 slipstream installation ensure to […]
The product group released the April 2015 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. For April 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 April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP2 hotfix. It is required […]
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. […]
