In the last couple of days we got several reports from customers which experienced an issue after installing April 2023 CU for SharePoint Server 2016 on servers which are running Windows Server 2012 R2. Background information April 2023 CU includes the new AMSI security feature for SharePoint (see here for details). AMSI relies on functionality […]

Below are the security fixes for the SharePoint OnPrem versions released this month. Important: SharePoint Foundation security fixes also have to be applied on SharePoint Server installations. SharePoint Server security fixes also have to be applied on Project Server installations. SharePoint 2013 Suite: KB 5002383 – SharePoint Foundation 2013 (core component) Microsoft Support recommends to […]

The product group released the April 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Starting with March 2023 CU, Microsoft releases cumulative updates for SharePoint Server Subscription edition as a unified “uber” package containing both the language independent and language dependent fixes. Language independent and language dependent fixes will no longer be released separately. Going […]

The product group released the April 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2019 product family. SharePoint Server 2019 is patched with a language dependent and a language independent fix. The KB article for April 2023 CU will be available at the following Location in a couple of hours: KB 5002373 – April 2023 Update for […]

The product group released the April 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. This CU also includes Feature Pack 1 which was released with December 2016 CU and Feature Pack 2 which was released with September 2017 CU. The KB articles for April 2023 CU should be available at the following locations in […]

The product group released the April 2023 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. This will be the final Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 as SharePoint 2013 will go out of support tomorrow. For April 2023 CU we have full server packages (also known as Uber packages) for all products. No other CU […]

At the moment we have official documentation available on how to upgrade an existing Microsoft Workflow Manager installation to SharePoint Workflow Manager and how perform a fresh installation of SharePoint Workflow Manager. What is missing are the required steps if an existing Microsoft Workflow Manager should be replaced with a new SharePoint Workflow Manager on […]

In previous versions of SharePoint Server new features were introduced with the release of new major versions. Those versions would be serviced with new security and quality improvements via monthly Public/Cumulative Updates but only on rare occasions, new feature experiences may be introduced via a Public/Cumulative Update. Unlike earlier versions SharePoint Server Subscription Edition is […]

We recently announced the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager which is a replacement for Microsoft Workflow Manager. Meanwhile new documentation has been released covering the installation and configuration of SharePoint Workflow Manager: Install and configure workflow for SharePoint Server

With Feature Update 22H2 last November we added AMSI support for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Today with March 2023 CU for SharePoint Server 2019 we have added the same functionality to SharePoint Server 2019. Excerpt: The cybersecurity landscape has fundamentally changed, as evidenced by large-scale, complex attacks, and signals that human-operated ransomware are on the […]

Below are the security fixes for the SharePoint OnPrem versions released this month. Important: SharePoint Foundation security fixes also have to be applied on SharePoint Server installations. SharePoint Server security fixes also have to be applied on Project Server installations. SharePoint 2013 Suite: KB 5002367 – SharePoint Foundation 2013 (core component) KB 5002168 – Excel […]

The product group released the March 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Starting with March 2023 CU, Microsoft releases cumulative updates for SharePoint Server Subscription edition as a unified “uber” package containing both the language independent and language dependent fixes. Language independent and language dependent fixes will no longer be released separately. Going […]

The product group released the March 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2019 product family. SharePoint Server 2019 is patched with a language dependent and a language independent fix. The KB article for March 2023 CU will be available at the following Location in a couple of hours: KB 5002358 – March 2023 Update for […]

The product group released the March 2023 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. This CU also includes Feature Pack 1 which was released with December 2016 CU and Feature Pack 2 which was released with September 2017 CU. The KB articles for March 2023 CU should be available at the following locations in […]

The product group released the March 2023 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For March 2023 CU we have full server packages (also known as Uber packages) for all products. No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. As this is a common question: Yes, March 2023 CU includes all fixes from […]

The product group released the March 2023 Cumulative Update for Office Online Server. The KB article for March 2023 CU will be available at the following Location in a couple of hours: KB 5002356 – March 2023 Update for Office Online Server The download for March 2023 CU is available through the following link: Download […]

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager, a new workflow engine to power the SharePoint 2013 Workflows platform for SharePoint Server and replace Service Bus and Microsoft Workflow Manager. SharePoint Workflow Manager is compatible with SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition. We recommend that all SharePoint Server customers using […]

With January 2023 CU for SharePoint Server 2016, 2019 and Subscription Edition we released a security fix which increased the transport security for communications between the SharePoint applications and the distributed cache cluster. (As of now the issue is also present in each CU released after January 2023. I will update this post and most […]

Below are the security fixes for the SharePoint OnPrem versions released this month. Important: SharePoint Foundation security fixes also have to be applied on SharePoint Server installations. SharePoint Server security fixes also have to be applied on Project Server installations. SharePoint 2013 Suite: KB 5002347 – SharePoint Foundation 2013 (core component) KB 5002312 – Word […]