Good-bye SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Office 2003

08/04/2014 Leave a comment

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Support for Office 2003 products and Windows XP are ending on April 8, 2014 is today.

After this date, Office 2003 products including SharePoint Portal Server 2003 product will no longer receive the following:

  • Assisted support
  • Online content updates
  • Software updates from Microsoft Update
  • Security updates to help protect your PC from harmful viruses, spyware, and other malicious software, which can steal your personal information.

After 12 years, support for Windows XP , There will be no more security updates or technical support for the Windows XP operating system. It is very important that customers and partners migrate to a modern operating system such as Windows 8.1. Customers moving to a modern operating system will benefit from dramatically enhanced security, broad device choice for a mobile workforce, higher user productivity, and a lower total cost of ownership through improved management capabilities.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/end-of-support.aspx

 

 

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Does SharePoint supports SQL Server 2014 RTM ?

20/03/2014 Leave a comment

It was announced that the RTM release of SQL 2014 will be generally available April 1st
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/03/18/sql-server-2014-released-to-manufacturers-will-be-generally-available-april-1.aspx

Currently we dont have any change to our official article for that but i can say unofficially YES , Starting with SharePoint 2013 SP1 + April 2014 CU will be supported.
You can follow the article that would be updated soon.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx

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Daylight saving time (DST) changes for Chile, Turkey, and Paraguay KB2935092

06/03/2014 Leave a comment

Chile

Chile has announced a new start date and end date for its daylight saving time (DST) schedule for 2014. The new dates are September 7 and April 27.

Turkey

Turkey has changed its DST start date for 2014 to March 31.

Paraguay

Paraguay’s new DST schedule from 2013, which moved the end date from the second Sunday in April to the fourth Sunday in March, continues in 2014 and onward until further notice.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2935092

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SharePoint 2013 SP1 FAQ

28/02/2014 Leave a comment

My colleague Stefan has prepared Q/A for SharePoint Sp1 installation  :
You can reach the original Article below link:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2014/02/27/sp2013-sp1-faq.aspx

Question: Is March 2013 PU required to install SharePoint 2013 SP1?
Answer: No. SP1 can be installed as well on the RTM baseline and on the March 2013 PU baseline (means all CUs later and including to March 2013 PU).

Question: Which version is SharePoint 2013 SP1?
Answer: The official version number is 15.0.4569.1506. You can see this version number e.g. in Control Panel – Programs.

Question: Which version number will I see in the Central Admin?
Answer: The configuration database version showing up in the Central Admin is 15.0.4569.1000

Question: Do I have to install as well SharePoint Foundation SP1 and Sharepoint Server SP1?
Answer: No. SharePoint Server SP1 includes SharePoint Foundation SP1.

Question: Do I have to install as well SharePoint Server SP1 and Project Server SP1?
Answer: Yes. The Project Server SP1 does NOT include SharePoint Server SP1

Question: Do I have to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard after installing SP1
Answer: Yes. The configuration wizard has to be run after updates, including Service Packs, CUs and Security Fixes.

Question: Does SP1 now support installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2?
Answer:No. The SP1 update which is currently available for download does not allow the installation on Windows Server 2012 R2 as it is not possible to create a slipstream installation for SP1. You need to wait for the release of SharePoint 2013 with SP1 included.

Question: When will SharePoint 2013 with SP1 (also known as “slipstream version”) be released?
Update 28/02/2014
Answer:”You need slipstream version”. You can now download SharePoint 2013 with SP1 from MSDN and VLSC and MPN.
Note:
Please avoid doing this as this is unsupported due to a change in the package layout which was introduced with March 2013 PU. Due to this change in the package layout it is not guaranteed that the manually created slipstream version will update all modules correctly. Ensure to download the official SharePoint 2013 with SP1 from one of the above listed sites.

Question: I have SharePoint 2013 installed with 3 language packs. Do I have to install also SP1 for all installed language packs?
Answer: Yes. Unlike Cumulative Updates the SharePoint Server 2013 SP1 package does not include the updates for additional language packs. You need to install the service pack for each installed language separately.

Question: Where can I find the list of all Fixes included in SP1 since RTM?
Answer: There is no consolidated List for all Fixes since RTM. Here you can find all fixes which are unique to SP1. Fixes included in earlier CUs are documented in the KB articles of these CUs.

Question: Where can I find information about SP1 for other Office Products?
Answer: The following three articles have information about SP1 for Office Client, Office Server and Exchange

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How to detect host named site collections

26/02/2014 Leave a comment


$webApp = Get-SPWebapplication "blog.bugrapostaci.com"
foreach($spSite in $webApp.Sites)
{
if ($spSite.HostHeaderIsSiteName)
{ Write-Host $spSite.Url 'is host-named' }
else
{ Write-Host $spSite.Url 'is path based' }
}

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