August 2014 CU for SharePoint 2010/2013 has been released

13/08/2014 Leave a comment

The product group released the August 2014 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family.

ATTENTION:

Be aware that all Update for SharePoint 2013 require SharePoint Server 2013 SP1 OR March 2013 PU for SharePoint 2013 to be installed first.

Please also have a look at the article that discusses how to properly patch a SharePoint 2013 farm which has Search enabled (see below).

Also be aware that in August no so called “Server” or “Uber” packages have been released instead only fix packages for individual components of SharePoint have been released. That means if your SharePoint system is on an older patch level than July 2014 CU you need to install July 2014 CU before installing the below listed August 2014 CU fixes in order to update your system to the latest patch level.
With other words: It is highly recommended to install SP1 and July 2014 CU before installing August 2014 CU!

Previous releases of the SharePoint Server 2013 cumulative update included both the executable and the .CAB file in the same self-extracting executable download. Because of the file size, the SharePoint Server 2013 package has been divided into several separate downloads. One contains the executable file, while the others contain the CAB file. All are necessary and must be placed in the same folder to successfully install the update. All are available by clicking the same Hotfix Download Available link in the KB article for the release.

This CU does NOT(!) include all SharePoint 2013 fixes previously released! It is recommended to install July 2014 CU before installing this CU.

The CU does not include SP1! You can install SP1 before or after installing this CU.

  • KB 2883081 – SharePoint Foundation 2013 August 2014 CU
  • KB 2883086, KB 2883085, KB 2883078, KB 2880559, KB 2760213 – SharePoint Server 2013 August 2014 CU
  • KB 2883083 – SharePoint Server 2013 with Project Server August 2014 CU
  • KB 2883093 – Office Web Apps Server 2013 August 2014 CU (KB delayed)

 

 

For More Information :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2014/08/13/august-2014-cu-for-sharepoint-2013-has-been-released.aspx

For SharePoint 2010 August 2014 CU

The product group released the August 2014 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family.

Be aware that the August Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP2 hotfix. It is recommended to have SP2 installed before installing the August CU.

Also be aware that in August no so called “Server” or “Uber” packages have been released instead only fix packages for individual components of SharePoint have been released. That means if your SharePoint system is on an older patch level than July 2014 CU you need to install July 2014 CU before installing the below listed August 2014 CU fixes in order to update your system to the latest patch level.
With other words: It is highly recommended to install SP2 and July 2014 CU before installing August 2014 CU!

This CU includes all SharePoint 2010 fixes released since SP1. The CU does not include SP2.

  • KB 2889825 – SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • KB 2889831 – SharePoint Server 2010

 
For More Information:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2014/08/13/august-2014-cu-for-sharepoint-2010-has-been-released.aspx

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How to ensure the SharePoint 2010 workflows end in given period

28/10/2013 Leave a comment

Many question has been asked about this problem.

in SharePoint Best Practices;

* For performance consideration ; you have to plan your timer jobs will always finish on time.
* You need to choose appropriate schedule interval to do it.

But this is not suitable for every condition ; Let me give some information about the issue.

You have planing to develop a custom timer job  for example this job has responsible to get some remote data from a remote System in 1 minute interval .
And what if the remote operation has taken more than 60sec. or what if that the timer job has faced with some problems and not getting finished itsjob in given period. You got the idea 🙂

In some conditions ; you may need to ensure no matter what ,the timer job has to be finished its job in given period . and If doesnt , you may want to terminate the running instance of the timer job and start a new instance of it.

The problem is here ;

If a timer has over its period and continue to running ; After the period has elapsed the new instance wont be started by  default behaviour of the SharePoint.
In SharePoint there is no way to run  two instance of a same timer job definition at same time

And even you have implemented some control logic in that timer job which responsible for the check and terminate if previous instance has running to stop it. It doesnt work because the timer job code wont be run again so it is never step through the SPTimerJob.Execute() method one more time.

And there is no way in OOB configuration to provide this functionality.

Resolution;

Resolution of this problem is easy but tricky. First you need to have 2 timer job.

EnsureTimerJobFinished

1)  Controler Timer job: (Scheduled) Has responsible to run worker timer job in defined interval and responsible to timing. (if the worker timer job has still running it can kill the previous one and start a new instance)

2)  Worker Timer Job. (Once) : Does the execute actual operation.

3)  If the Controler has detected that the previous instance of the worker timer job still running. It can terminate it. (Or you can extend your solution and make your own decision here)

4) After termination , The Controller can run another instance of the worker timer job.

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August CU 2013 has been released.

28/08/2013 Leave a comment

August 2013 CU for SharePoint 2013 has been released
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/08/14/august-2013-cu-for-sharepoint-2013-has-been-released.aspx

August 2013 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/08/14/august-2013-cu-for-sharepoint-2010-has-been-released.aspx

Note For SP2:
* It is recommended to install June 2013 CU before SP2. June 2013 CU might not correctly identify the SP2 baseline. If SP2 has already been installed and June CU does not install you need to install  August CU which will correctly identify the SP2 baseline.

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SharePoint 2010 SP2 has been released

23/07/2013 Leave a comment

Please be aware that SP2 is now available for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as well as the other server products.

The SP2 release improves the compatibility of the Office and SharePoint 2010 products with Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, Office 2013, and SharePoint 2013. It also addresses security, stability, and performance and contains all the Cumulative Updates (CU)and Public Updates (PU) that have released since SP1, starting with the June 2011 CU and July 2011 PU and ending with the April 2013 CU and May 2013 PU.

SharePoint Server 2010 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687453
SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687464

*Unlikely the previous SP1 , if you have SharePoint Server 2010 installation you don’t need to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP2 first, SharePoint Server SP2 already contains this update.

Server Language Pack SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687462
SharePoint Foundation 2010 Language Pack SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687466

Project Server 2010 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687452
Search Server 2010 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687461
SharePoint Designer 2010 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687463

* It is recommended to install June 2013 CU before SP2. June 2013 CU might not correctly identify the SP2 baseline. If SP2 has already been installed and June CU does not install you need to wait for August CU which will correctly identify the SP2 baseline.

* our Service Packs are cumulative. You can install SP2 directly on RTM.

Here you can find some changes with SharePoint SP2

  • Navigating to a SharePoint site with a BlackBerry device may open a non-mobile page.   Adding RIM6 into compat.browser allows users to access SharePoint pages and view documents in mobile view.
  • If anonymous access is enabled for Sharepoint 2010 SP1 (or later Cumulative Update), attempts to to access the site via a mobile device will receive an authentication prompt.
  • Customers are unable to use spell check in Korean when running SharePoint on Windows Server 2012.
  • Displaying Summary Links Web Part in personalizing view; generating confusing error message.
  • Deployment fails for content types containing a formula field in Italian.
  • File attachments are not deleted due to incorrect URL formatting
  • If requireExactUrl is not set for openweb calls, the PublishingWeb constructor may spawn variation pages  into incorrect locations while attempting re-creation of failed label during create hierarchies.
  • Incremental content deployment fails, giving the following error: FatalError: The given key was not present in the dictionary
  • Spell Checker doesn’t work properly with Internet Explorer 10.
  • Rich text editor spell checker may work incorrectly on 64 bit machines.
  • Customers encounter issues sending e-mail from workflows when the From address uses a non-Unicode character set.
  • Updated VBE7.dll to fix safe array corruption for x64 hosts when calling UDF methods using safe array arguments directly from the host.
  • SQL exceptions will appear in the log when running update statistics timer.
  • Improved performance of the AllUserData table.
  • Getting a feed against a discussion board fails if feed contains more than zero items.
  • SharePoint 2010 client object model now has compatibility for accessing Sharepoint 2013 servers.
  • Windows 8 users with Internet Explorer 10 receive an error when trying to open a document from SharePoint 2010 directly in the Office client.
  • Call GetChanges won’t return changes in certain cases where the change log has been edited and no parameters are set.
  • STSAdm MigrateUser fails when SQL server is not in domain.
  • Attempting to delete a child web from site settings causes the page to fail.
  • There is no exposed method to recalculate the second stage recycle bin size.
  • April 2011 Calendar View does not display correctly with Amman System Time zone
  • Users can create a scenario where a site loses permissions.
  • After deleting a web that contains historical document versions in the RecycleBin, rows are abandoned in the database.  These rows bloat the size of the database, causing difficulty with database management operations such as backup/restore, complicating upgrade and other scenarios.
  • After creating alerts on a document library with unique permissions and moving the contents using SPFolder.MoveTo method, the permissions seem to be lost and even the farm administrator is not able to delete these alerts.

More Resources:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/

http://blogs.office.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2013/07/23/check-out-the-sharepoint-server-2010-service-pack-2.aspx

Note: Due to required changes to the Prerequisite Installer, Service Pack 2 cannot be slipstreamed into installation media for use with installation on Windows Server 2012 systems.  Installation of SharePoint Server 2010 with Service Pack 2 on Windows Server 2012 systems requires an integrated Service Pack 2 installation media due
following the patch release.

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SharePoint 2010 Form based authentication problem Event ID:1315 and Event ID:8306

24/11/2012 Leave a comment

Assume that you have a SharePoint 2010 site with configured as Claim Based Authentiction with custom SQL Membership . You have move your site and membership database to another server and you have facing with connection problems on existing SQL MemberShip users by getting this fallowing errors

In ULS Logs:

11.13.2012 15:40:18.20 w3wp.exe (0x18C8) 0x17C8 SharePoint Foundation Claims Authentication 0000 Unexpected Password check on ‘user@mail.com’ generated exception: ‘System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException]: The security token username and password could not be validated. (Fault Detail is equal to Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException: The security token username and password could not be validated.).’.

11.13.2012 15:40:18.20 w3wp.exe (0x18C8) 0x17C8 SharePoint Foundation Claims Authentication fo1t Monitorable SPSecurityTokenService.Issue() failed: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException]: The security token username and password could not be validated. (Fault Detail is equal to Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException: The security token username and password could not be validated.).

and In Event logs
Presence of Event ID 8306 in the Application Event Log
11/08/2012 03:29:11 PM Error SERVERA 8306 Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation Claims Authentication DOMAIN\User An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: The security token username and password could not be validated..

Presence of Event ID 1315 in the Application Event Log with Event code: 4006
Event message: Membership credential verification failed.

The problem is here if you try to login site with one of existing FBA user even password is correct , cound not able to validate password . If you create a new FBA user , there is no problem on login.
The main cause of this issue could be changes of the Machine Key.

Why ?

The Password information is stored in the aspnet_Membership table in Asp.Net Membership database . The   SqlMembershipProvider allows for passwords to be stored in the database    using one of the following three techniques:

  • Clear – the password is stored in the database as plain-text. I strongly        discourage using this option. If the database is compromised – be it by a hacker        who finds a back door or a disgruntled employee who has database access – every        single user’s credentials are there for the taking.
  • Hashed – passwords are hashed using a one-way hash algorithm and a randomly        generated salt value. This hashed value (along with the salt) is stored in the database.
  • Encrypted – an encrypted version of the password is stored in the database

The password storage technique used depends on the SqlMembershipProvider    settings specified in Web.config.  The default behavior is to    store the hash of the password.
the particular encryption or hashing algorithm used by the SqlMembershipProvider is determined by the settings in the <machineKey> element.

for more information:
http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/security/membership/creating-the-membership-schema-in-sql-server-vb
http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/security/introduction/forms-authentication-configuration-and-advanced-topics-vb

So if you have move your site to another server you may consider that the MachineKey if anyhow is changed , the existing users’ passwords can not be validated.

1) First Check for the MachineKey values in web.config for related your FBA SharePoint site. If you have any difference on target site make them equalize.
2) Also don’t forget to check other servers in your farm for the same site should be same MachineKey. If any difference in MachineKeys may cause integrity problems.

Somehow If the data integrity has broken , recreating users or forcing the users reset their password will help about the issue.

 

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