| Quick note – I'll have the full versioning on the SharePoint 2013 Server patches as soon as they're out – but they've been delayed. As of now, the only updates released so far this month for SharePoint Foundation 2013.
For more http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/06/12/june-2013-cu-for-sharepoint-2013-is-delayed.aspx
Notes:
SharePoint 2013 release numbers can be found similarly to how you find them in 2007 - just go to Central Admin | System Settings | Manage Servers In Farm. Or, in PowerShell, use:
(get-spfarm).buildversion
For more information on SharePoint 2013 updates, please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/jj891062.aspx
SharePoint 2013 Version/Release | Microsoft Support KB Reference | Version Number from Central Admin | Release Date | June 2013 Update Server/Foundation | PENDING / KB2817346 | 15.0.4517.1003 | 11 June 2013 | April 2013 Update Server/Foundation | KB2726992/KB2751999 | 15.0.4505.1002 | 9 April 2013 | March 2013 Public Update (PU) Server/Foundation | KB2767999/KB2768000 | 15.0.4481.1005 | 12 March 2013 | SharePoint 2013 RTM | | 15.0.4420.1017 | 11 October 2012 | SharePoint 2013 Beta Refresh | | 15.0.4128.1022 | September 2012 | SharePoint 2013 Public Beta | | 15.0.4128.1024 | 16 July 2012 | Tech Preview 2 | | 14.0.6117.5002 | April 2012 | Tech Preview 1 | | 15.0.3612.1010 | February 2012 | Wave 15 Private Beta | | 15.0.3612.1010 | 2011 |
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We are super excited, finally, to announce that SharePoint Saturday Rhode Island will be held Saturday, November 9, at the New Horizons offices in Providence, Rhode Island. It's our first ever SPS event in the Ocean State.
McCoy Stadium, from Flickr © 2008 Christopher F. McNulty
In case you haven't visited Providence, it's a fantastic city on the Atlantic coast about an hour south of Boston, and a short drive away from Newport. It's the home of the Pawtucket Red Sox, Providence Bruins, Brown University, and Providence College. College Hill is a great destination for shopping and nightlife, and Federal Hill is home to many well-loved seafood and Italian restaurants. Finally, we've picked a weekend to coincide with Waterfire, a torchlit evening arts festival held on and around the Providence River many weekends each year. (And no, I still live in Massachusetts!)
Waterfire, from MuchAdoAboutSomethin
SPSRI is being organized through the Rhode Island SPUG, and with the assistance of Joshua Cliff and Chris Pereira. Many thanks to New Horizons for making their training facilities available to us for the day. The New Horizons offices are a mile or so west of downtown, in a series of converted industrial lofts that were once used to build locomotives. Plus, free parking and restaurants onsite.
Calls for speakers and sponsors will be forthcoming – watch for them on the SPSEvents.org site (there's nothing there yet!). We're going to be able to introduce a few new features for attendees – including hands on labs, tracks for local, first time speakers; and of course, the best content available on SharePoint (and Yammer and Office 365). We'll also be working on more details for travel (lots of Southwest flights to Providence!) and lodging (the Renaissance was open at $129/night on Expedia)
See you in November!
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| Yesterday, Christophe Fiessinger at Microsoft announced the next step in the ongoing integration of Yammer into SharePoint and Office 365. Admins can now convert their SharePoint Online systems to replace the integrated newsfeed service of SharePoint with Yammer.com. (See InfoWorld or Microsoft for more.)
The process adds a Yammer link to the top menu chrome, and removes the ability to use the central SharePoint "Post to Everyone" native newsfeed (since that would lead to duplication and confusion.) Single signon and app support are coming soon. The process takes about 30 minutes, and you can go back if you change your mind.(But why?)
In case you're looking for it, it's in the Admin section under settings. Enjoy! |
| Following the full general availability of SharePoint 2013 on February 27, 2013, Microsoft's been putting SharePoint 2013 on the same update footing as its predecessors. (Still not sure that SharePoint ever ran on a computer this old.)
ENIAC © 2013 Christopher F. McNulty on Flickr
If you are new to SharePoint, Microsoft rolls up off the patches into a consolidated update every two months (February, April, June, August, October, and December). Major functional changes are usually only made as part of a Service Pack. For SharePoint 2010, so far, there's been only one – SP1. And no Service Packs yet for SharePoint 2013.
Interestingly, the April updates were the first branded as "Cumulative Updates", in line with the update cycle for earlier versions of SharePoint. We'll know in June if SharePoint 2013 sticks to the same release cycle.
Also, please read the manifests of what's fixed. There are a lot of things fixed in the early months of a release, and not all the fixes are equally stabIe. It is NOT best practice to auto-deploy the CUs as soon as they're released. Make sure the update fixes your issue, or at least something close, and always test before going into production.
SharePoint 2013 release numbers can be found similarly to how you find them in 2007 - just go to Central Admin | System Settings | Manage Servers In Farm. Or, in PowerShell, use:
(get-spfarm).buildversion
For more information on SharePoint 2013 updates, please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/jj891062.aspx
SharePoint 2013 Version/Release |
Microsoft Support KB Reference |
Version Number from Central Admin |
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April Update Server/Foundation |
KB2726992/KB2751999 |
15.0.4505.1002 |
9 April 2013 |
March Update Server/Foundation |
KB2767999/KB2768000 |
15.0.4481.1005 |
12 March 2013 |
SharePoint 2013 RTM |
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SharePoint 2013 Public Beta |
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Tech Preview 2 |
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April 2012 |
Tech Preview 1 |
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Wave 15 Private Beta |
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| Welcome to Microsoft TechEd 2013! I'm here at the Day One Keynote. (Which means I'm not in the 3-4 hour lines to buy a $99 Surface RT!) Anyway, here are a few highlights if you were stuck there.
As nearly 10,000 attendees assemble, we have live New Orleans Dixieland band playing – great way to warm up the crowd early Monday morning.
I've focused in on a few topics of interest today. (This is not a comprehensive summation – the keynote should be up on Channel9 later.) We open with a "James Bond" styled video featuring Brad Anderson as an unlikely James Bond type touting the security of the Microsoft public cloud. He retrieves his sunglasses in the video (since security was never at risk) and drives on stage in an Aston Martin (@InTheCloudMSFT)
Iain McDonald Partner Director for Windows Core is up next, to let us know
Windows 8.1 "Blue" Preview bits will be free and release June 26.
Windows 8.1 will Includes resizable Start Screen tiles and consumer features – but also enterprise features to allow control and lockdown of Start Screen. Security is a key driver here, and Iain showed off a number of Windows 8.1 devices from OEMs (like the new Dell XPS11!)
And Brad returns, to announce we have 1.2 billion smart devise in the world, and the Active Directory in the cloud on Azure can manage all those identities. Oh, and:
Announcing Windows 2012 R2, Systems Center 2012 R2 and Intune
There was a lot of great stuff here, especially for SharePoint 2013. Molly Brown showed a Windows 2012 R2 feature when she accessed a Contoso SharePoint site from a remote personal tablet. The BYOD features recognized this and prompted her to self-register her device. Her identity was verified by an auto callback to her work cellphone, and she was immediately able to access to a prescribed range of remote services.
Scott Guthrie , CVP for Azure, announced a range of changes to make Azure a great dev/test platform:
- Stopped VMs no longer incur charges
- Charges will now be by minute, rather than by hour
- MSDN Use Rights on Azure can be used on any VM on Azure or use precreated images for faster creation
- DevTest rates will be $.06/hour
- Announces giveaway for MSDN developers – if they enroll and build an Azure app by September they could win an Aston Martin!
Quentin Clark was up next announcing
SQL Server 2014
A lot of slick user driven self-service BI features here - much of it touch screen friendly and location aware. More DIY app creation coolness.
- Geoflow addin intelligently maps based on columns it can find and let you zoom and map
- Live modeling for geolocated tweet streams on #MSTechEd over time, freeze, drill down to live geoheatmap
Brad was back announcing Windows Azure Pack – which uses a cloud like control surface to provision internal private cloud VMs on Data Center in Windows 2012 R2. This demo was focused on using commodity hardware to deliver a robust public cloud-quality experience internally. For example, he was able to provision storage groups in software alone that mixed 20 hard disks and 4 solid-state disks to generate 120000 IOPS. (That's enough to host a 240TB SharePoint content database!)
Overall, good stuff, especially the Windows 2012 R2 and 8.1 announcements. I'm off to sing copies of my SharePoint 2013 Consultant's Handbook (Advance Edition) tonight at 6:30 at the Dell booth. Hope to see you there! And my presentations on SharePoint upgrade and social are Wednesday afternoon.
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| I get a lot of questions about the distinction between SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro. Both provide centralized personal file storage, and offline clients for SkyDrive are available free for a number of systems, including Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Windows Phone. (Personally, I make heavy use of both SharePoint and SkyDrive to synchronize professional and personal files across my phones, tablets, and PCs. And yes, I just described some of my own work as 'professional'.)
SIFF2013 © Christopher F. McNulty also on Flickr
Microsoft has also offered offline clients for SharePoint before – Groove, and then SharePoint Workspace. SkyDrive Pro provides local synchronized access to content in SharePoint 2013 and Office 365. Up until now, it was only available with Office 2013.
Not anymore. Even if you haven't upgraded yet, you can still get SkyDrive Pro now to run alongside Office 2010, 2007, etc.) Just visit Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39050
This picture came from a whirlwind trip to Seattle last week, and I got to drop by the Northwest premiere of my brother Tom's movie "The Spectacular Now" at the Seattle International Film Festival. Plus my sister, brother in law and nephews are all in Seattle. But now, I'm getting ready for TechEd North America 2013 next week in New Orleans.
 
If you're there, catch me:
- Monday June 3 - 6:30pm book signing "SharePoint 2013 Consultant's Handbook", expo floor, Dell pavilion
- Tuesday June 4 – 6:00-8:00pm Ask The Experts, Microsoft Pavilion
- Wednesday June 5 – 1:45pm SharePoint 2013 Upgrade breakout session
- Wednesday June 5 – 5:00pm SharePoint 2013 Social breakout session
- Thursday June 6 – invitation only luncheon (so ask me) on SharePoint performance tuning in Dallas TX (and then back to New Orleans!)
Hope to see you there!
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| Spring in New England means baseball, and flowers, and gardens. And occasionally fog.
Tree, fog, redux, © 2013 Christopher F. McNulty also at Flickr
So let's cut through the fog with the latest round of updates for SharePoint 2010.
As with all recent CU's, Microsoft's standard list of "Known Issues" in this release:
- You must run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizards – the "gray wizard" or PSCONFIG to fully deploy the patches to all servers after installation (that's not news, really, but Microsoft included this disclaimer).
- You have to manually stop and restart the user Profile Synchronization Service after the update to keep UPS running smoothly. (Same as ever.)
In August 2011, Microsoft changed the process for rolling out Cumulative Updates. CUs are now packaged for each particular platform – SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server, Or Project Server. So, if you're installing the August 2011 or later CUs on SharePoint Server – you don't need to separately install the Foundation CU first – that is now fully packaged into the Server CU.
Cumulative updates are also multilingual – each update contains all the integrated language support version – there are no separate downloads. Also, Service Pack 1 is a requirement for the latest cumulative updates.
SharePoint 2010 release numbers can be found similarly to how you find them in 2007 - just go to Central Admin | System Settings | Manage Servers In Farm. Or, in PowerShell, use:
(get-spfarm).buildversion
And for more information on SharePoint 2010 updates, please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx
SharePoint 2010 Version/Release | Microsoft Support KB Reference | Version Number from Central Admin | Release Date | MSS 2010/Foundation April 2013 Cumulative Update | KB 2775353, 2794728 | 14.0.6137.5000 | 9 April 2013 | MSS 2010/Foundation February 2013 Cumulative Update | KB 2767793, 2760791 | 14.0.6134.5000 | 12 February 2013 | MSS 2010/Foundation December 2012 Cumulative Update | KB 2596955, 2596957 | 14.0.6131.5003 / 14.0.6131.5001 | 22 December 2012 | MSS 2010/Foundation October 2012 Cumulative Update | KB 2687564, 2687566 | 14.0.6129.5003 | 15 November 2012 | MSS 2010/Foundation August 2012 Cumulative Update | KB 2687353, 2687355 | 14.0.6126.5000 | 1 September 2012 | MSS 2010/Foundation June 2012 Cumulative Update | KB 2598354, 2598353 | 14.0.6123.5000 | 2 July 2012 | MSS 2010/Foundation April 2012 Cumulative Update | KB 2598151, 2598321 | 14.0.6120.5000 | 24 April 2012 | MSS 2010/Foundation February 2012 Cumulative Update | KB 2597150, 2597132 | 14.0.6117.5002 | 7 March 2012 | MSS 2010/Foundation December 2011 Cumulative Update | KB 2597014, 2597058 | 14.0.6114.5000 | 13 December 2011 | MSS 2010/Foundation October 2011 Cumulative Update | KB 2596505, 2596508 | 14.0.6112.5000 | 25 October 2011 | MSS 2010/Foundation August 2011 Cumulative Update | KB 2553048, 2553050 | 14.0.6109.5002 | 7 September 2011 | MSS 2010/Foundation June 2011 Cumulative Update | KB 2536599, 2536601 | 14.0.6106.5002 | 30 June 2011 | MSS 2010/Foundation Service Pack 1 | KB 2460045, 2460058 | 14.0.6029.1000 | 28 June 2011 | MSS 2010/Foundation April 2011 Cumulative Update | KB 2512800, 2512804 | 14.0.0.5138 | 28 April 2011 | MSS 2010/Foundation February 2011 Cumulative Update | KB 2475880, 2475878 | 14.0.0.5136 | 3 March 2011 | MSS 2010/Foundation December 2010 Cumulative Update | KB 2459257, 2459125 | 14.0.0.5130 | 31 December 2010 | MSS 2010/Foundation October 2010 Cumulative Update | KB 2394320, 2394323 | 14.0.0.5128 | 26 October 2010 | Foundation July 2010 Hotfix | KB 2032588 | 14.0.5050.5001 | 13 July 2010 | MSS 2010/Foundation June 2010 Cumulative Update | KB 983319, 983497, 2182938 , 2281364, 2124512, 2204024 - / KB 2028568 / TechNet summary | 14.0.0.5114 | 29 June 2010 | SharePoint 2010 RTM | N/A | 14.0.0.4762 | 12 May 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010 Release Candidate | N/A | 14.0.0.4730 | February 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta | N/A | 14.0.0.4536 | November 2009 | SharePoint Server 2010 SPC2009 Demos | N/A | 14.0.0.4524 | October 2009 | SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview "2" [another SPC2009 demo build] | N/A | 14.0.0.4514 | October 2009 | SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview | N/A | 14.0.0.4006 | 25 April 2009 |
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| Some things are constant. Long term. Dependable. Like England, home for "Stay Calm and Carry On". And SharePoint 2007 – steady on again, with bimonthly Cumulative Updates for SharePoint 2007. Over six years, steady on and counting. (This photo comes from this month's SharePoint Evolutions conference in London, by the way.)
Tower Bridge, © 2013 Christopher F. McNulty on Flickr
Haven't heard issues any issues with these patches yet, either. So, a full server installation, fully updated, should follow this install sequence:
- WSS SP3
- MOSS SP3
- WSS April 2013 CU
- MOSS April 2013 CU
A reminder -- SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now a required prerequisite for the latest – SP1 AND SP2 are no longer supported. If you ever need to confirm which update/revision of SharePoint you are running, without accessing the binary files themselves, you can find this in SharePoint Central Administration. Go to the Operations tab, and under Topology and Services, select Servers in Farm.
For more information on current patch levels, check TechNet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx And, as always, test before deploying in production.
SharePoint 2007 Version/Release | Microsoft Support KB Reference | Version Number from Central Admin | Release Date | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2013 Cumulative Update | KB2799867/
KB2799869 | 12.0.0.6676
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12.0.6676.5000
| 9 April 2013 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2013 Cumulative Update | KB2760814/
KB2760816 | 12.0.0.6673
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12.0.6673.5001
| 12 February 2013 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2012 Cumulative Update | KB2760570/
KB2760571 | 12.0.0.6670
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12.0.6670.5002
| 11 December 2012 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2012 Cumulative Update | KB2687533/
KB2687535 | 12.0.0.6668
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12.0.6668.5000
| 30 October 2012 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2012 Cumulative Update | KB2687330/
KB2687331 | 12.0.0.6665
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12.0.6665.5000
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KB2687257 | 12.0.0.6662 | 26 June 2012 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2012 Cumulative Update | KB2598129/
KB2598130 | 12.0.0.6661 | 24 April 2012 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2012Cumulative Update | KB2597958/
KB2597959 | 12.0.0.6658 | 28 February 2012 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2011 Cumulative Update | KB2596986/
KB2596987 | 12.0.0.6656 | 13-16 December 2011 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2011 Cumulative Update | KB2596540/
KB2596541 | 12.0.0.6565 | 25 October 2011 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) | KB2553020/
KB2591054 | 12.0.0.6606 | 25 October 2011 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2011 Cumulative Update | KB2553020/
KB2553022 | 12.0.0.6565 | 30 August 2011 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2011 Cumulative Update | KB2544398/
KB2544399 | 12.0.0.6562 | 28 June 2011 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2011 Cumulative Update | KB2512782/
KB2512783 | 12.0.0.6557 | 26 April 2011 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2011 Cumulative Update | KB2475885/
KB2475886 | 12.0.0.6554 | 22 February 2011 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2010 Cumulative Update | KB2458605/
KB2458606 | 12.0.0.6550 | 14 December 2010/
30 December 2010 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2010 Cumulative Update | KB2412267/
KB2412268 | 12.0.0.6548 | 26 October 2010 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2010 Cumulative Update | KB2276472/
KB2276474 | 12.0.0.6545 | 31 August 2010 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2010 Cumulative Update | KB983310/KB983311 | 12.0.0.6539 | 29 June 2010 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2010 Cumulative Update | KB981042/KB981043 | 12.0.0.6535 | 27 April 2010 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2010 Cumulative Update | KB978395/KB978396 | 12.0.0.6529 | 23 February 2010 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2009 Cumulative Update | KB977026/KB977027 | 12.0.0.6524 | 15 December 2009 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2009 Cumulative Update | KB974988/KB974989 | 12.0.0.6520 | 27 October 2009 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2009 Cumulative Update | KB973409/KB973410 | 12.0.0.6514 | 25 August 2009 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2009 Cumulative Update | KB971537/KB971538 | 12.0.0.6510 | 20 July 2009 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2009 Cumulative Update | KB968851/KB968850 | 12.0.0.6504 | 30 April 2009 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP2 | KB953334/KB953338 | 12.0.0.6421 | 28 April 2009 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Feb 2009 Cumulative Update | KB961755/KB961756 | 12.0.0.6341 | 24 February 2009 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Cumulative update | KB956056/KB956057 | 12.0.0.6327 | 16 September 2008 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Infrastructure Update | KB951695/KB951297 | 12.0.0.6318 | 15 July 2008 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix | KB948945 | 12.0.0.6303 | 21 February 2008 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix | KB941274 | 12.0.0.6301 | 31 January 2008 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix | KB941422 | 12.0.0.6300 | 26 February 2008 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP1 | KB936984/KB936988 | 12.0.0.6219 | 8 December 2007 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Security Bulletin MS07-059 | KB942017 | 12.0.0.6039 | 9 October 2007 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 24, 2007 hotfix package | KB941422 (updated) | 12.0.0.6036 | 24 August 2007 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 RTM [Released To Manufacturing] | N/A | 12.0.0.4518 | 16 November 2006 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2 TR | N/A | 12.0.0.4407 | 2006 | MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2 | N/A | 12.0.0.4017 | 2006 |
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| OK, I also still have a bunch of SharePoint 2010 systems I use for BI development. Just fired up a new image where I wanted to integrate a bunch of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Reports into the nice, multitabbed Performance Point Dashboard.
Now the reports were built on the same server with SQL 2012, so I should be good to go, right? Wrong. As soon as Dashboard Designer tries to link to a new report, we get this error:
Figure 1 - "Dashboard Designer Requires Microsoft Report Viewer 2008"
Seriously? I already have Report Builder, and now I need 2008 Report Viewer for a SQL 2012 build? Yes. If SharePoint 2013 needs SQL2008R2 support for Performance Point, this shouldn't be a surprise. Follow the link and install. Easy peasy.
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