June 2013 CU for SharePoint Server 2013 is planned to be released in a couple of days. In case you are only interested in June CU for SharePoint Foundation 2013 or Office Web Apps Server 2013 you can already download it from here: KB 2817346...

The product group released the June 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the June Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the...

The product group released the June 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations: KB 2817329 - WSS 3.0 KB 2817328 - MOSS 2007 The Full...

The product group released the April 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. Be aware that all Update for SharePoint 2013 require March 2013 PU for SharePoint 2013 to be installed first. The KB articles for April CU will be...

April 2013 CU for SharePoint Server 2013 is planned to be released in a couple of days. In case you are only interested in April CU for SharePoint Foundation 2013 or Office Web Apps Server 2013 you can already download it from here: KB 2751999...

The product group released the April 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations: KB 2799869 - WSS 3.0 KB 2799867 - MOSS 2007 The Full...

The product group released the April 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the...

This includes also Beta version of SP2 for SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010. As with all Beta products: don't use it in production. Also be aware that an upgrade from SP2 Beta to the final SP2 might not be possible or supported...

Per http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx#hwLocServers , support for stretch farm topologies SharePoint 2013 was unsupported. As a result of our continuous efforts to review and update our product performance and capacity...

I often receive questions on the patching process of SharePoint. The following white paper addresses the often-misunderstood subject of SharePoint Products and Technologies patching. It explains the various types of updates that are available, the...

As I received this question a couple of times in the past here a short summary of the different update types used with SharePoint: Service Pack What is it: A service pack is a combination of previously released fixes, fixes which have only been...

The product group recently released the March 2013 Public Update (PU) for the SharePoint 2013 product family. Important: Due to a change in the package configuration introduced after SharePoint 2013 RTM the March Public update is a mandatory requirement...

Yesterday we released the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. The Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 provide broad and deep support, ranging from new templates to new designers to a whole host of integrated lifecycle tools. They...

Recently I received a question about a failing Variations Create Hierarchies Job . No matter how often the Job was started, the variation hierarchy never got created. Looking at the ULS log we noticed the following error: VariationCreateHierarchies...

The product group released the February 2013 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 product group released the February 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations: KB 2760816 - WSS 3.0 KB 2760814 - MOSS 2007 The...

The Developer Dashboard has undergone some significant changes in 2013. E.g. it is now running in a separate browser window and also allows to show ULS log entries related to the current request. The following article gives a brief overview of the...

The product group released the December 2012 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...

I was planning to write a blog post about how MDS works when I noticed, that there is already an article which explains it very well. So rather than producing duplicate Content I decided to just link to this article: SharePoint 2013 - Introduction...

The product group released the December 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2760571 - WSS 3.0 KB 2760570 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for...

Recently I got involved in an interesting Support case where the application pool of a SharePoint web application recycled unexpectedly. During Analysis it became clear that the problem occurred due to a web.config setting which configured a custom error...

Here is a list of recently released articles on SharePoint 2013 relevant for planning and upgrade: Hybrid for SharePoint Server 2013 A hybrid SharePoint environment is composed of SharePoint Server, typically deployed on-premises, and Microsoft...

The product group released the October 2012 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 product group released the October 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2687535 - WSS 3.0 KB 2687533 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for October...

Just a short heads-up for those waiting for October CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010: there is a short delay in the release of October CU. I will post a note here as soon as the final bits are available. For those only waiting for the WSS 3.0 and SharePoint...

This paper provides guidance about the benefits of Windows Azure Virtual Machines and explains how to deploy SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows Azure Virtual Machines Windows Azure Virtual Machines mitigate the need for hardware, so organizations can...

IT pros planning to implement and deploy SharePoint 2013 might be interested in the following Training: SharePoint 2013 training for IT pros It covers the following Topics: Introduction and Overview System Requirements Architectural...

If you are planning to migrated from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 you should read the following artice which discusses changes between the two versions: Changes from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 The article describes the features...

If you are planning to use SharePoint 2013 you should be familiar with the following article which outlines unsupported Installation scanarios for SharePoint 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2764086/en-us As summary the following Scenarios are...

See here for Details: http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2012/10/11/office-reaches-rtm.aspx

The product group released the August 2012 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 product group released the August 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2687331 - WSS 3.0 KB 2687330 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for August...

Microsoft has published a whitepaper with an official guidance on modifying pre-defined content types. You can find the white paper here: Word Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=260922 PDF Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink...

Recently I had another service request where a customer reported high memory consumption in combination with the famous " Potentially excessive number of SPRequest objects (1007) currently unreleased on thread 17 " message. You might notice the very high...

Today I analyzed a memory dump which showed an interesting pattern. Based on the dump several hundred SPRequest objects had been allocated on a single thread for a single request. Each SPRequest object has a pretty large unmanaged COM object behind...

Learn about new features and functionality in SharePoint 2013 Preview, including the new Cloud App Model, development tools, platform enhancements, mobile apps, and more. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163091(v=office.15).aspx This...

Developer-focused how to training and walkthrough videos about Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 including changes and new features for search, social, ECM, WCM, and REST are now available on MSDN. Learn about apps for Office and SharePoint. http...

Microsoft released the public beta for Office and SharePoint Server 2013. You can find more information in the following articles: Office Customer Preview SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Office Web Apps, Project, Visio, Office Professional 2013...

If the answer to the question above is "No", be aware that you will not be able to install any future CU. August 2012 CU for SharePoint 2010 and later will only install on a server/farm which has SP1 installed. June 2012 CU for SharePoint 2010 will...

Microsoft released a security update for SharePoint 2007 and 2010. You can find more details about the security update in the following articles: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-050 http://support.microsoft.com/kb...

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

The product group released the June 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2687257 - WSS 3.0 KB 2687256 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for June...

In case that the answer to the question above is "Yes" - be aware that mainstream support for this product will end at October 9th, 2012 (see on the official support lifecycle page ). Extended support will be provided till October 10th, 2017. That...

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...

My colleague Cedric Naudy recently analyzed an interesting problem: Hierarchy creation for all site collections in a specific content database failed to create the hierarchy while hierarchy creation in other web applications worked fine. The Hierarchy...

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 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...

Topics covered in this post:

• Consuming Webservices over HTTPS (SSL)
• Reset the Farm Passphrase
• SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata
• When Page Output Caching Does Not Output
• Database maintenance for SharePoint Server 2010
• “Headless” Authentication with SharePoint Online and the Client Side Object Model

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The full blog post from Steven Sinofsky can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx

Topics covered in this post:

• MOSS Warmup script for FBA based Internet facing site
• Create, configure, and manage groups and term sets
• Details about how Document ID Service is activated 

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