The product group released the April 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the April CU. The April Cumulative Update for SharePoint...

The product group released the February 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the February Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the February CU. The KB articles for February...

The product group released the February 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2597959 - WSS 3.0 KB 2597958 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for February 2012 CU are available through the following...

The product group released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2596987 - WSS 3.0 KB 2596986 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for December 2011 CU are available through the following...

The product group released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the December Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the December CU. The KB articles for December...

The first update for SharePoint Online has been rolled out recently which introduced various different improvements in areas like: Business Connectivity Services External Sharing Enhanced Browser Support Recycle Bin Fixes to various different problem Read more about the changes...

In an earlier post I outlined problems when installing October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 on top of Service Pack 3. Meanwhile October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been rereleased. If you are going to download October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 now you will not have problems when trying to install...

Due to a problem in the October 2011 CU it is not possible to install October CU on top of MOSS 2007 Service Pack 3. If a fix from October CU is required right now you can use the workaround to first install October 2011 CU and Service Pack 3 afterwards. This sequence is fully supported and will avoid...

The product group released the delayed October 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the October Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the October CU. The KB articles for...

The product group released the October 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. October CU for SharePoint 2010 should be available in a couple of days. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2596541 - WSS 3.0 KB 2596540 - MOSS 2007 The Full...

[via Office Sustained Engineering and Release team ] We are pleased to announce the availability of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for our 2007 family of products. This service pack contains all the Cumulative Updates and Public Updates for Office 2007 that have shipped since SP2 for both the Office client...

Special thanks to my colleague Tehnoon Raza for collecting the following information: Summary On September 13, 2011, Microsoft released security bulletin MS11-074 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege . The security bulletin had a security rating of Important...

The product group released the delayed August 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the August Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the August CU. The KB articles for August...

The product group released the August 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. August CU for SharePoint 2010 should be available in a couple of days. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process...

June 2011 CU Refresh has been released yesterday. It resolves a couple of known problems which were documented in the KB articles of the hotfixes (details see below). Here are the details about the problems which are addressed in the re-released packages: Issue 1 If you install the earlier build...

Jie Li, one of the Program Managers for the SharePoint product family recently created a very interesting article revealing the internals about what's going on under the hood when installing updates for SharePoint. There’re always lots of questions around SharePoint patching. How to patch SharePoint...

The product group released the June 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. Be aware that the June Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that the fixes included in June CU are not part of SP1 and that you have to install SP1 first and...

[from Office Sustained Engineering Blog ] On Tuesday Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint 2010 was made available. SP1 contains a number of important fixes that improve the SharePoint experience for our customers. With the recommendation to install SP1 for SharePoint came a recommendation to ALSO deploy...

In the last couple of weeks I received various questions about April 2011 CU fixes for various different Office products. As I'm in the SharePoint business I usually only posted the hotfix information for the SharePoint suite but as it seems to be of general interest here is a summary of all April CU...

The product group released the April 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the fixes can already be downloaded. As soon as the...

Finally also the February 2011 CU for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released. The MOSS 2007 fixes have been released rougly two weeks ago. Some of the KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the...

Yesterday the product group released the February 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The Februray 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 will be released in a couple of days. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required...

Yesterday the product group released the December 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the fixes can already be downloaded. As...

The product group has released updated packages for the October 2010 Cumulative Update. The new packages contain a fix for the problem reported earlier . The updated fixes can be be found at the following locations: KB 2394323 - SharePoint Foundation 2010 - only listed for completeness as this...

Recently we discovered a problem related to user profiles when installing the October 2010 CU for SharePoint Server 2010. The October Cumulative Update makes some changes and updates to the user profile database. Unfortunately there are certain situations where this update does not complete as expected...