I have got a question here as I recently extended my role (from Senior SharePoint developer) also as a SharePoint administrator and applying SharePoint product patches on the servers now is a part of my job. The responsibility is new and am also learning at the same time.
The last patch applied by the previous admin was in May 2018. I can see that there are a lot of patches released by Microsoft every month and since we are lagging way behind what should be my approach in getting the patches applied?
Reading a couple of articles suggests that I should be very mindful before making a call to proceed with the patch activity in the sense look out for any issues that might arise out of the patch etc.. at the sametime since the environment is lagging behind with updates I need to advice the management on an approach to stay inline with updates.
Any suggestion/recommendation is much appreciated.
Thanks.
You can directly deploy the latest patch package in SharePoint 2016.
After each successful installation, you need to run SharePoint 2016 Products Configuration Wizard.
Description of the security update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016: July 13, 2021 (KB5001976)
Description of the security update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016(MUI/language patch): July 13, 2021 (KB5001981)
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How can I get the new Polaris UI that was supposed to be released December? I heard it was released then was recalled. How can I access a beta copy for a client demo?
If you are referring to the "On-Premise" version, then this has not yet been released.
For client demos, you could sign up for a free 30-day trial for CRM Online (no credit card details needed). Since around mid-January, all CRM Online trials are automatically preloaded with the Polaris updates.
The Rollup 12 (v2) for CRM 2011 On-Premise has just been re-released.
Check it out
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36229
The update roll-up 12 has been released and taken back due to bugs.
However, if you go to crm.dynamics.com and register for a free CRM On-line account (that will last you for four weeks before you need to pay), you'll get what you wish.
It's my understanding that the biggest change is the process driven UI that is supposed to substitute the forms. Haven't tried it out, yet, but it looks interesting.
Frankly, I was expecting more visual changes in the the version so I'm a little bit disappointed. But it's definitely a step in right direction!
My team is using the Scrum 2.0 template in TFS 2012. We've entered detailed user stories as items in the product backlog. How do I get them output in a format suitable for sharing with business stakeholders?
There is a "Backlog Overview" report, but it has only the list of item titles with hours remaining. I need a report that includes all of the detail that we added to each product backlog item, including Description, Acceptance Criteria, State, Priority, AssignedTo, etc...
Surely this exists already? Or did the TFS team completely overlook any need to communicate detail to external stakeholders and auditors?
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers released a tool called the Team Foundation Server Word Add-ina couple weeks back to
import work items from a Team Foundation Server Team Project and generate professional-looking Word document from TFS Work items.
It's fairly early days for this particular tool, but check out the readme in the downloads section.
Team For Word is another very similar tool made by a 3rd party, i believe it was originally made for TFS2008 but has been updated to work with 2010 and probably works with 2012 if you install the team explorer for 2010
Is there a way to export all of TFS 2008 Groups and Permissions for an Audit?
I looked at the TFS Permissions Manager mentioned in another answer and couldn't easily figure out how to use this for an audit of user permissions. That said I looked around and found a few other possible tools to help in this process:
Team Foundation Server Administration Tool - This can be used to produce a list of TFS groups, users & permissions on a per project basis. The utility uses a grid control to display the results and this can easily be copied and pasted into Excel, etc.
TFS Project Audit - This tool generates output in an indented text format. It too works on a per project basis however it lists the output grouped by TFS role.
I think both of the options I mention are more recently maintained than the TFS Permission Manager at the time of this writing. Also, keep in mind that for purposes of a security audit I believe that the local & domain administrators groups in Windows Server have the ability to override any of the TFS permissions (at least with TFS 2008).
I'm the guy who wrote TFS Project Audit and I'd like to clarify a few things about my tool. First, it works on a project basis for TFS 2008 or a collection basis for 2010. It can report on a specific collection or all collections on a TFS server. These are enhancements I made in the newest version, released only a few days ago. Also, the output can be restricted to a specific group, Project Administrators, for example, across a project, collection, or the entire server.
I am always soliciting but rarely receiving feedback on this pet project of mine, so please feel free to leave suggestions for future releases! I have plenty of ideas in mind but it would help to know where my time is best spent, because this projectis hardly all I do with my days.
To prove it is really me, I'll give Saul a shout at tfsprojects.codeplex.com. Thanks a lot Saul!
Have you looked at this?
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/srlteam/archive/2006/11/27/TFS-Permission-Manager-1.0-is-Finally-out.aspx
We have a weird intermittent problem with saving from Word 2007 to our SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) document libraries that gives a dialog box that never goes away - it is titled "Content Types" and the message "Getting list of available content types..." with a green progress-type bar that keeps scrolling. It happens a lot on our training server (self-contained virtual machine with separate SQL Server) but more worryingly is happening on our live production server (which is in a medium server farm arrangement - web application server, another server for search/indexing and a SQL Server). All servers in the farms are 64 bit.
It is strangely random - the user has to kill Word 2007, then they recover their document and try to save to the same document library and it saves without a problem.
It happens more on the training server than the live server. The live web application server rarely goes over 20% CPU (usually around 5%) and memory peaks at 2Gb of the available 4Gb (usually at 1.5Gb) so I don't think its a resources issue.
The document libraries are customised and deployed using Features in a Solution. The only content type in them is the standard Documents content type.
Update We opened this with Microsoft as a support issue and it is a known issue that is targeted to be addressed in a Cumulative Update hotfix package for SharePoint in February 2009.
Edit Copied the above response to an answer so this question could be flagged as answered.
I have encountered this issue as well. Do you know if it was corrected in MOSS Service Pack 2? Do you have a KB# or other ID from Microsoft which references this problem?
We opened this with Microsoft as a support issue and it is a known issue that is targeted to be addressed in a Cumulative Update hotfix package for SharePoint in February 2009.
Edit: As at 27 January 2009 we have the test patch so it looks like the official patch is set to be released on time.
Edit: This problem was fixed by the February Cumulative update which is also part of SP2:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/28/announcing-service-pack-2-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx
However, you also need to patch Word for it to be effective; that patch is available here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=962872
That is for Word 2007, other versions may need other patches.
I applied the MOSS infrastructure upgrade w/o applying the WSS one before it -- uh, help!
Quoting:
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)
Other Relevant Updates It is strongly recommended that you install the Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) before installing this update on any of the Office Servers listed in the system requirements section above.
Therefore not applying first Infrastructure Update for WSS seem to be not recommended but not unsupported
I believe that is a supported, but unrecommended configuration. You should be able to get help from microsoft :)
I am assuming that you have also run the Configuration wizard after you applied this and brought your system online? If you have not, you are in a much better position, as you can apply the WSS upgrade - then run the wizard and you should be fine.
If you have run through the wizard - and brought the system back online - its not the end of the world. What you will want to do - is go back and follow the steps to upgrade your system just as if you had not done anything. The infrastucture update makes some significant changes and improvements to portal search - so once you start trying to configure that, you'll see some errors in crawling etc - as the indexer (which has been updated) tries to crawl content (which has not).
Apply the WSS bits, then reapply the bits for MOSS, then run the Config wizard and bring everything back. You should be okay at that point.
Obviously, before you do anything, backup all systems and take them offline.
Hope this helps.
Sounds like time for a full restore. The MOSS upgrade steps did explicitly ask for a restore, didn't it?
The TechNet article Install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (Office SharePoint Server 2007) has a dicussion on this in the community content section. Someone commented that the WSS update must be run first. There is no suggestion for what to do if you don't or what the consquences are.