2017

You have a SharePoint 2013 farm on a patch level before April 2017 CU and you plan to keep it running after April 10th, 2018? Start patching! As communicated earlier, Mainstream support for SharePoint 2013 will end April 10th, 2018. After this date only security fixes will be provided for SharePoint 2013. Regular hotfixes can no […]

[The blog post below is based on the information collected by Derek Smay and Alexander Peter, two Microsoft Premier Field Engineers located in the US] Overview One of the changes in the November 2017 CU for SharePoint 2013 affects the maintenance of the [dbo].[TimerJobHistory] table in the SharePoint configuration database, which can experience significant growth if it […]

Just a heads-up in case that you still have SharePoint environments running on SharePoint 2013: Mainstream support for SharePoint 2013 will end on April 10th, 2018: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?alpha=sharepoint%202013 After this date only security fixes will be provided for SharePoint 2013. Regular hotfixes can no longer be requested. If not already done we recommend to start planning […]