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Hi Dan, you should not have to extract anything. Can you send me the link to the technet article where you read this? Thanks, Stefan
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Thanks Stefan for your response. Before running the Get-SPLocal-Product I referred your another blog entry which helped me to get all the details about the sharepoint server and below is the output...
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Is there any truth to MS making all patches for windows and SharePoint one .exe with no way to separate them? We are being told by our patch guys its all one package and we can no longer stop SP...
View ArticleComment on SharePoint security fixes released with October 2016 PU and...
No that is not the case.
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Hi Anand, this seems to be the patch baseline – not the patch level. Which script did you run? Thanks, Stefan
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Great! It saved my time
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Nice Post and to helpful! for me was the option 1. what can I do if I need to create SiteCollections from Farm1 to Farm2? Is it possible do it by Event Handler? please help I’m a bit lost
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Hi Stefan, I ran the script mentioned in the below post....
View ArticleComment on Common Issue: April 2015 fixes for SharePoint 2013 might not...
Ok, thats what I thought. This script reports the patch baseline – not the patch level. But the conflict you get reported is about the patch level. Get-SPProduct -local will ensure that the patch level...
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Hi Perla, I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve. Can you elaborate? Thanks, Stefan
View ArticleComment on October 2016 CU for SharePoint Server 2016 is available for...
Hi Stefan, are this and other SharePoint 2016 updates-to-date CUs or PUs? The linked KB article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3118372 refers to “the October 2016 public update” and the...
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Hi John, great question! Both Terms are used nowadays. In the past public updates were only updates available on Microsoft update – usually Security fixes and other important fixes. A while ago...
View ArticleComment on March 2016 CU for SharePoint 2010 product family is available for...
Hi Stefan, thanks for the information! I know that you have written about that you don’t always see the latest CU build version you installed in your SharePoint, but I am easily worried. In our case we...
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Hi Anders, that is expected. If you check my blog post you will notice that the last time a SharePoint Foundation CU was released before May 2016 was in Feb 2016. As the build numbers you refer to only...
View ArticleComment on Windows Security fixes (MS16-101) prevent SharePoint from changing...
Dear Stefan, We have the same problem, but we have another. We think it caused by that update. If we update each property for example manager in the AD and we start incremental sync most of the sp...
View ArticleComment on July 2016 CU for SharePoint 2013 product family is available for...
Within weeks of completing July 2016 upgrade, all of our web and app servers ate lusted again as Upgrade required. We have a support case open but are currently stumped. A colleague heard that this was...
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Are there any checks we can run that will tell us whether a farm is victim to this? We inherited farms that were supposedly built initially with July 2015 cu, though unclear whether it was...
View ArticleComment on September 2016 CU for SharePoint Server 2016 is available for...
Hi Stefan, I’m not clear as to the implications of your reply. My goal is to ensure that all components of SharePoint 2016 are fully patched to latest available regardless when each component was last...
View ArticleComment on September 2016 CU for SharePoint Server 2016 is available for...
Hi John, you have to install the latest language dependent and language independent fix. Thats all. For some CUs there is only one of these two – in this case look for the latest one of the other in...
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Hi Len, If you have ran PSConfig since July 2015 CU was installed then you are fine. Cheers, Stefan
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