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August 2011: SharePoint 2010 - Cumulative Updates and Internal Version Numbers

Hey, it’s end of summer here in Boston.  It’s after Labor Day, and we like to let summer linger as long as possible.  Microsoft delivered the August 2011 SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Updates in September, too.  How do we know?  Here’s a picture of the “Motif #1” lobster shed in Rockport, Massachusetts, from a day trip earlier this month with my family.

 
Motif #1, © 2011 Christopher F. McNulty

SharePoint 2010 release numbers can be found similarly to how you find them in 2007 - just go to Central Admin | System Settings | Manage Servers In Farm.  Or, in PowerShell, use:

(get-spfarm).buildversion

And for more information on SharePoint 2010 updates, please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the 2011 SharePoint Conference next month in Anaheim, California.  Thanks again for reading!

SharePoint 2010 Version/Release	Microsoft Support KB Reference	Version Number from Central Admin	Release Date
MSS 2010/Foundation August 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2553048, 2553050	14.0.6109.5002	7 September 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation June 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2536599, 2536601	14.0.6106.5002	30 June 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation Service Pack 1	KB 2460045, 2460058	14.0.6029.1000	28 June 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation April 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2512800, 2512804	14.0.0.5138	28 April 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation February 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2475880, 2475878	14.0.0.5136	3 March 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation December 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 2459257, 2459125	14.0.0.5130	31 December 2010
MSS 2010/Foundation October 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 2394320, 2394323	14.0.0.5128	26 October 2010
Foundation July 2010 Hotfix	KB 2032588	14.0.5050.5001	13 July 2010
MSS 2010/Foundation June 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 983319, 983497, 2182938 , 2281364, 2124512, 2204024 - / KB 2028568 / TechNet summary	14.0.0.5114	29 June 2010
SharePoint 2010 RTM	N/A	14.0.0.4762	12 May 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Release Candidate	N/A	14.0.0.4730	February 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta	N/A	14.0.0.4536	November 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 SPC2009 Demos	N/A	14.0.0.4524	October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview “2” [another SPC2009 demo build]	N/A	14.0.0.4514	October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview	N/A	14.0.0.4006	25 April 2009

 

August 2011: SharePoint 2007 Cumulative Updates and Internal Version Numbers

Still running SharePoint 2007?  Ever feel left out of all the fun?  Well this month – don’t.  Microsoft has delayed the bimonthly patch release for SharePoint 2010 – but you 2007 stalwarts have your faith rewarded.  Microsoft has released the August 2011 SharePoint 2007 Cumulative Updates on time (i.e. still in August.)  SharePoint 2010 CU’s have been delayed.

 

The northeast US has had hurricanes and earthquakes…reason for the delay?

A reminder -- SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 is now a required prerequisite – SP1 is no longer supported.  If you ever need to confirm which update/revision of SharePoint you are running, without accessing the binary files themselves, you can find this in SharePoint Central Administration.  Go to the Operations tab, and under Topology and Services, select Servers in Farm. 

For more information on current patch levels, check TechNet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx  And, as always, test before deploying in production.  Enjoy summer!

SharePoint 2007 Version/Release	Microsoft Support KB Reference	Version Number from Central Admin	Release Date
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2553020/ KB2553022	12.0.0.6565	30 August 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2544398/ KB2544399	12.0.0.6562	28 June 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2512782/ KB2512783	12.0.0.6557	26 April 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2475885/ KB2475886	12.0.0.6554	22 February 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2458605/ KB2458606	12.0.0.6550	14 December 2010/ 30 December 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2412267/ KB2412268	12.0.0.6548	26 October 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2276472/ KB2276474	12.0.0.6545	31 August 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2010 Cumulative Update	KB983310/KB983311	12.0.0.6539	29 June 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2010 Cumulative Update	KB981042/KB981043	12.0.0.6535	27 April 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2010 Cumulative Update	KB978395/KB978396	12.0.0.6529	23 February 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2009 Cumulative Update	KB977026/KB977027	12.0.0.6524	15 December  2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2009 Cumulative Update	KB974988/KB974989	12.0.0.6520	27 October 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2009 Cumulative Update	KB973409/KB973410	12.0.0.6514	25 August 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2009 Cumulative Update	KB971537/KB971538	12.0.0.6510	20 July 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2009 Cumulative Update	KB968851/KB968850	12.0.0.6504	30 April 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP2	KB953334/KB953338	12.0.0.6421	28 April 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Feb 2009 Cumulative Update	KB961755/KB961756	12.0.0.6341	24 February 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Cumulative update	KB956056/KB956057	12.0.0.6327	16 September 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Infrastructure Update	KB951695/KB951297	12.0.0.6318	15 July 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB948945	12.0.0.6303	21 February 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB941274	12.0.0.6301	31 January 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB941422	12.0.0.6300	26 February 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP1	KB936984/KB936988	12.0.0.6219	8 December 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Security Bulletin MS07-059	KB942017	12.0.0.6039	9 October 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 24, 2007 hotfix package	KB941422 (updated)	12.0.0.6036	24 August 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 RTM [Released To Manufacturing]	N/A	12.0.0.4518	16 November 2006
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2 TR	N/A	12.0.0.4407	2006
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2	N/A	12.0.0.4017	2006

Getting past the 200GB Content Database Limit in SharePoint 2010 SP1

Late last month, Microsoft released the long awaited Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010.   I’ve given you a brief introduction to the functions in my prior post, but I wanted to explore the changes for storage.  There are a lot of changes in the service pack – but I’d like to focus on maximum content database size and RBS (Remote BLOB Storage) today.

Around the same time as the SP1 release, Microsoft issued a clarification on the SharePoint blog, giving new guidance on maximum content database sizes.  Instead of the traditional 200GB limit, Microsoft is now recommending that the maximum can be anywhere from 200GB to 4TB, depending on disk performance.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=988

“SharePoint can support up to 4 TB of data in all usage scenarios and has no imposed size limit for document archive scenarios.”

Wow.  4TB is a lot!  But read the fine print – surpassing 200GB requires that your disk subsystem supplies performance of at least .25 IOPS per GB; 2 IOPS is recommended for optimal performance.  Let’s look at what this means for collaborative content databases. 

So…what’s an IOPS?   IOPS stands for Input/output Operations per Second – in short, how many read write transactions per second can be moved through the disk.

A traditional calculation is:

 
 

Essentially, if you know how long each disk transaction takes, you can determine how many of them you can get through in a second.  So, if your database disks take .001 seconds to move the disk heads, .005 seconds average read time, and .013 seconds average write time, the math tells us that the average total time is .01 seconds, for an IOPS rating of 100.

How best to measure this?  There are two decent techniques.  The first uses Windows Performance Monitor.  If you add the counter for Windows | Logical Disk | Avg Disk Sec | Transfer, you can get a good approximation of the average time for disk transactions.  Make sure you run the test for a long enough time period, and perform some disk operations, like database backup, that generate sufficient traffic for a fair stress test.

The more comprehensive technique is to download a free open source tool, IOMeter from http://www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html.  IOMeter was originally developed by Intel, and provides a way to stress test a disk system more comprehensively, under a variety of loads.  Please note – IOMeter adds a large temporary file to the root directory of a target drive– so if you must test in production, I suggest finding a time of low utilization and little or no production usage.  The scenarios we usually use are:

• Default
• 4k Write size, 75% read/write ratio, 50% random sequencing of disk locations.

I ran these tests against one of our production SQL systems – a dell PowerEdge 2950 with a local PERC5 based SCSI array.  Here’s our range of numbers:

 

We observed calculated IOPS from 62.5 to 235.79.  These predict a total maximum content database size of anywhere from 125GB to 471GB – however, 200GB is still the “floor” recommendation – using Microsoft’s “optimal recommendations.  The theoretical support maximums are higher – 250GB up to 943GB.  This is a broad range.  My recommendations tend to favor IOMeter based metrics, and Microsoft 2.0 IOPS per GB guidance – yielding a maximum content database size of 384-472GB. 

There’s another lovely bit of fine print in the SP1 guidance:

“The content database size includes both metadata and BLOBs regardless of where the BLOBs are located and use of RBS does not bypass or increase these limits.”

This may come as a surprise to organizations that used RBS to get around traditional 200GB thresholds.  What Microsoft is saying is that the performance of the disk still matters for BLOBs – there is no free lunch.  There are many reasons to use RBS – including the use of lower cost disk for BLOB storage, and the reduction of core content database size to a point for efficient backup/restore operations.  Small content DBs are also better candidates for solid state disk, etc.  But RBS alone will not allow you to throw all your file content on a remote, slow file share without seeing degraded performance. 

RBS is still really important in large SharePoint installtations.  But deploying it without planning may lead to disappointment.

Thanks for reading this far.  For more details on SP1, downloads, version numbers, etc., please visit  http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge/2011/07/june-2011-sharepoint-2010-service-pack-1-cumulative-updates-and-internal-version-numbers.html.

June 2011: SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 - Cumulative Updates and Internal Version Numbers REVISED

UPDATE: Microsoft has already revised the June 2011 Cumulative Update - see http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=989 for the latest news.

Have you seen the TV ad for an electronics manufacturer with 3D televisions?  As a lucky suburban buyer-gatherer loads his new 3D, a truck drives past, emblazoned with signs touting  the new “4D” systems.

 

SharePoint service packs are like that, too.  As soon as Microsoft released SP2 for SharePoint 2007, they put out a new CU two days later (April 2009.)

So, of course, why not do that again?  The June 2011 Cumulative Update – the latest and possibly the greatest – hit the Interwebs two days after SP1.    All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

SharePoint 2010 release numbers can be found similarly to how you find them in 2007 - just go to Central Admin | System Settings | Manage Servers In Farm.  Or, in PowerShell, use:

(get-spfarm).buildversion

And for more information on SharePoint 2010 updates, please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx Thanks again for reading!

SharePoint 2010 Version/Release	Microsoft Support KB Reference	Version Number from Central Admin	Release Date
MSS 2010/Foundation June 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2536599, 2536601	14.0.6106.5002	30 June 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation Service Pack 1	KB 2460045, 2460058	14.0.6029.1000	28 June 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation April 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2512800, 2512804	14.0.0.5138	28 April 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation February 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2475880, 2475878	14.0.0.5136	3 March 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation December 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 2459257, 2459125	14.0.0.5130	31 December 2010
MSS 2010/Foundation October 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 2394320, 2394323	14.0.0.5128	26 October 2010
Foundation July 2010 Hotfix	KB 2032588	14.0.5050.5001	13 July 2010
MSS 2010/Foundation June 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 983319, 983497, 2182938 , 2281364, 2124512, 2204024 - / KB 2028568 / TechNet summary	14.0.0.5114	29 June 2010
SharePoint 2010 RTM	N/A	14.0.0.4762	12 May 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Release Candidate	N/A	14.0.0.4730	February 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta	N/A	14.0.0.4536	November 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 SPC2009 Demos	N/A	14.0.0.4524	October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview “2” [another SPC2009 demo build]	N/A	14.0.0.4514	October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview	N/A	14.0.0.4006	25 April 2009

 

June 2011: SharePoint 2007 Cumulative Updates and Internal Version Numbers

(Well, technically it is July as we write this.)  Hope you are enjoying your summer!   Microsoft’s bimonthly blitz of Office and SharePoint updates marches on.  For SharePoint 2007, the June release is "just" a Cumulative Update – all the Service Pack SP1 fun is over on the SharePoint 2010 side of the cube walls in Redmond.    So, with your extra time, you can visit fun area museums, like the MFA Boston.

 
Dale Chihuly sculpture in the New American Wing Atrium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
© 2011 Christopher F. McNulty from http://www.flickr.com/

A reminder -- SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 is now a required prerequisite – SP1 is no longer supported.  If you ever need to confirm which update/revision of SharePoint you are running, without accessing the binary files themselves, you can find this in SharePoint Central Administration.  Go to the Operations tab, and under Topology and Services, select Servers in Farm. 

For more information on current patch levels, check TechNet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx  And, as always, test before deploying in production.  Enjoy summer!

SharePoint 2007 Version/Release	Microsoft Support KB Reference	Version Number from Central Admin	Release Date
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2544398/ KB2544399	12.0.0.6562	28 June 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2512782/ KB2512783	12.0.0.6557	26 April 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2475885/ KB2475886	12.0.0.6554	22 February 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2458605/ KB2458606	12.0.0.6550	14 December 2010/ 30 December 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2412267/ KB2412268	12.0.0.6548	26 October 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2276472/ KB2276474	12.0.0.6545	31 August 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2010 Cumulative Update	KB983310/KB983311	12.0.0.6539	29 June 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2010 Cumulative Update	KB981042/KB981043	12.0.0.6535	27 April 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2010 Cumulative Update	KB978395/KB978396	12.0.0.6529	23 February 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2009 Cumulative Update	KB977026/KB977027	12.0.0.6524	15 December  2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2009 Cumulative Update	KB974988/KB974989	12.0.0.6520	27 October 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2009 Cumulative Update	KB973409/KB973410	12.0.0.6514	25 August 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2009 Cumulative Update	KB971537/KB971538	12.0.0.6510	20 July 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2009 Cumulative Update	KB968851/KB968850	12.0.0.6504	30 April 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP2	KB953334/KB953338	12.0.0.6421	28 April 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Feb 2009 Cumulative Update	KB961755/KB961756	12.0.0.6341	24 February 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Cumulative update	KB956056/KB956057	12.0.0.6327	16 September 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Infrastructure Update	KB951695/KB951297	12.0.0.6318	15 July 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB948945	12.0.0.6303	21 February 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB941274	12.0.0.6301	31 January 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB941422	12.0.0.6300	26 February 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP1	KB936984/KB936988	12.0.0.6219	8 December 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Security Bulletin MS07-059	KB942017	12.0.0.6039	9 October 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 24, 2007 hotfix package	KB941422 (updated)	12.0.0.6036	24 August 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 RTM [Released To Manufacturing]	N/A	12.0.0.4518	16 November 2006
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2 TR	N/A	12.0.0.4407	2006
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2	N/A	12.0.0.4017	2006

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SP1 has been released

As expected, Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 this week (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460045).  Please see my prior post for details on expected features.  [Its internal version number in Central Admin - 14.0.6029.1000 - in case you were wondering.]

 
(Ah, peaceful pastures...from Flickr.com)

To quote Microsoft's summary, these are the highlights:

• Improved support for Internet Explorer 9.
• Recycle bin: Lets you restore a site collection or a web that was deleted.
• Remote Backup Systems (RBS) and shallow copy can decrease downtime and increase efficiency by moving pointers to databases instead of moving databases.
• You can see which folders are taking up valuable space with the improved Storage Management feature in site settings.
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2011.
• A more robust Search Host Distribution service that improves error recovery and performance during the search crawl.
• Adds backup and restore functionality to recover deleted site collections and webs.

I'll follow up shortly with more detail later this week.  Expect there to be a few patches in the June 2011 CU not found in SP1, if past experience is any guide.

Happy patching!  And remember, test first!

SharePoint 2010 SP1 Coming in June 2011 – Why We Care

Microsoft has officially announced the June 2011 release of Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010.  SP1 will incorporate all the interim patches and bug fixes released since the original May 2010 release of SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010.

Microsoft Service Packs receive full regression testing, and are generally recommended for wide deployment.  However, we still recommend testing them on non-production environments in advance of any production releases.  Its may be advisable to wait a few weeks to see if any public bug reports surface.  And, please, don’t install them like this:

 

(The wrong way to fix a SharePoint 2010 server…no content types were harmed during the making of this photo!)

There’s more than patches – there are some essential new functions here.  Let’s take a look!

IE9 Native Support Call me silly, but having Microsoft’s primary web client natively support their primary web server seems obvious.

Chrome Support in OWA   I’ve gotten used to telling first year adopters, well, Google Chrome isn’t officially supported, but it seems to work.  Of course it should work – it shares the Firefox/Mozilla rendering engine – but it’s nice to see it become official.

Site Recycle Bin   Just like you can use a Recycle Bin to recover deleted items and files, you will now be able to recover site collections and sites quickly, without resorting to backup files or databases.  This is a big tine saver for administrators.

StorMan.aspx  Prior versions of SharePoint included the capability to drill down into sites, libraries or documents to discover the largest consumers of storage space.  This function is being restored and enhanced in SP1.  Admins and users will have a simple way to drill down and find out why sites are nearing or exceeding quotas, so you can remove inadvertently large files if warranted.

Project Sync Project Professional 2010 will now be able to synchronize schedules tasks with SharePoint task lists, instead of just publishing a copy.

Other new functions to be released include:

• Word Web App offers print support in Edit Mode
• Excel Web App allows charts to be inserted
• Outlook Web App offers attachment previewing in Exchange Online
• Improved browser support for Project Server
• Search Server adds support for PPSX files
• Optimized copy speed for content  in RBS-enabled databases (Shallow Copy)

Look for SP1 in late June – and, as always, I’ll have the announcement and version numbers here for you on Microknowledge…after some testing, of course!

April 2011: SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Updates and Internal Version Numbers

They’re finally here!  (A few days late…and I’m a few days late.  Sorry!)   Microsoft has released the April 2011 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint 2010.   Over on my post for the 2007, I posted a springtime picture from the East Coast.  Here’s one from the Pacific Northwest.

 
Puget Sound Sunset… © 2011 Christopher F. McNulty

SharePoint 2010 release numbers can be found similarly to how you find them in 2007 - just go to Central Admin | System Settings | Manage Servers In Farm.  Or, in PowerShell, use:

(get-spfarm).buildversion

And for more information on SharePoint 2010 updates, please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx

I’ve seen a few random notes about issues with the People Picker control on MSDN/TechNet – so as always, please test prior to putting these in production.  Thanks again for reading!

SharePoint 2010 Version/Release	Microsoft Support KB Reference	Version Number from Central Admin	Release Date
MSS 2010/Foundation April 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2512800, 2512804	14.0.0.5138	28 April 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation February 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2475880, 2475878	14.0.0.5136	3 March 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation December 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 2459257, 2459125	14.0.0.5130	31 December 2010
MSS 2010/Foundation October 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 2394320, 2394323	14.0.0.5128	26 October 2010
Foundation July 2010 Hotfix	KB 2032588	14.0.5050.5001	13 July 2010
MSS 2010/Foundation June 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 983319, 983497, 2182938 , 2281364, 2124512, 2204024 - / KB 2028568 / TechNet summary	14.0.0.5114	29 June 2010
SharePoint 2010 RTM	N/A	14.0.0.4762	12 May 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Release Candidate	N/A	14.0.0.4730	February 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta	N/A	14.0.0.4536	November 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 SPC2009 Demos	N/A	14.0.0.4524	October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview “2” [another SPC2009 demo build]	N/A	14.0.0.4514	October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview	N/A	14.0.0.4006	25 April 2009

 

April 2011: SharePoint 2007 Cumulative Updates and Internal Version Numbers

Welcome to spring, a brief two week period in New England between blizzards and humidity.   Still, it’s a nice time to be outside.  Trust me, every place around here looks exactly like this:

 

A reminder -- SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 is now a required prerequisite – SP1 is no longer supported.  If you ever need to confirm which update/revision of SharePoint you are running, without accessing the binary files themselves, you can find this in SharePoint Central Administration.  Go to the Operations tab, and under Topology and Services, select Servers in Farm. 

For more information on current patch levels, check TechNet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx  And, as always, test before deploying in production.  Just remember, by the time of the next CU, it will be summer!

SharePoint 2007 Version/Release	Microsoft Support KB Reference	Version Number from Central Admin	Release Date
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2512782/ KB2512783	12.0.0.6557	26 April 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2011 Cumulative Update	KB2475885/ KB2475886	12.0.0.6554	22 February 2011
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2458605/ KB2458606	12.0.0.6550	14 December 2010/ 30 December 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2412267/ KB2412268	12.0.0.6548	26 October 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2010 Cumulative Update	KB2276472/ KB2276474	12.0.0.6545	31 August 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2010 Cumulative Update	KB983310/KB983311	12.0.0.6539	29 June 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2010 Cumulative Update	KB981042/KB981043	12.0.0.6535	27 April 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 February 2010 Cumulative Update	KB978395/KB978396	12.0.0.6529	23 February 2010
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2009 Cumulative Update	KB977026/KB977027	12.0.0.6524	15 December  2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2009 Cumulative Update	KB974988/KB974989	12.0.0.6520	27 October 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2009 Cumulative Update	KB973409/KB973410	12.0.0.6514	25 August 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2009 Cumulative Update	KB971537/KB971538	12.0.0.6510	20 July 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2009 Cumulative Update	KB968851/KB968850	12.0.0.6504	30 April 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP2	KB953334/KB953338	12.0.0.6421	28 April 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Feb 2009 Cumulative Update	KB961755/KB961756	12.0.0.6341	24 February 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Cumulative update	KB956056/KB956057	12.0.0.6327	16 September 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Infrastructure Update	KB951695/KB951297	12.0.0.6318	15 July 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB948945	12.0.0.6303	21 February 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB941274	12.0.0.6301	31 January 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB941422	12.0.0.6300	26 February 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP1	KB936984/KB936988	12.0.0.6219	8 December 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Security Bulletin MS07-059	KB942017	12.0.0.6039	9 October 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 24, 2007 hotfix package	KB941422 (updated)	12.0.0.6036	24 August 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 RTM [Released To Manufacturing]	N/A	12.0.0.4518	16 November 2006
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2 TR	N/A	12.0.0.4407	2006
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2	N/A	12.0.0.4017	2006

February 2011: SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Updates and Internal Version Numbers

They’re finally here!  (A few days late…) Microsoft just released the February 2011 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint 2010.  There were a few ongoing issues with patches for the User Profile Synchronization Service, especially for circumstances where Active Directory uses different NetBIOS and FQDN domain names.  Microsoft still hasn’t issued the supporting knowledge base articles as of press time, so there may be more details soon.

Despite the delays, it’s still winter.  So here’s a pleasant image from SharePoint Saturday San Diego last month.

 

There may be warmer places than where you are right now… © 2011 Christopher F. McNulty

SharePoint 2010 release numbers can be found similarly to how you find them in 2007 - just go to Central Admin | System Settings | Manage Servers In Farm.  Or, in PowerShell, use:

(get-spfarm).buildversion

And for more information on SharePoint 2010 updates, please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx

Thanks again for reading, or coming out to one of my presentations at a SharePoint event visiting in 2010.  Hope to see you soon!

SharePoint 2010 Version/Release	Microsoft Support KB Reference	Version Number from Central Admin	Release Date
MSS 2010/Foundation February 2011 Cumulative Update	KB 2475880, 2475878	14.0.0.5136	3 March 2011
MSS 2010/Foundation December 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 2459257, 2459125	14.0.0.5130	31 December 2010
MSS 2010/Foundation October 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 2394320, 2394323	14.0.0.5128	26 October 2010
Foundation July 2010 Hotfix	KB 2032588	14.0.5050.5001	13 July 2010
MSS 2010/Foundation June 2010 Cumulative Update	KB 983319, 983497, 2182938 , 2281364, 2124512, 2204024 - / KB 2028568 / TechNet summary	14.0.0.5114	29 June 2010
SharePoint 2010 RTM	N/A	14.0.0.4762	12 May 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Release Candidate	N/A	14.0.0.4730	February 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta	N/A	14.0.0.4536	November 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 SPC2009 Demos	N/A	14.0.0.4524	October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview “2” [another SPC2009 demo build]	N/A	14.0.0.4514	October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Preview	N/A	14.0.0.4006	25 April 2009