For those who may not have seen this yet, there was an issue discovered in some of the SharePoint 2010 October Cumulative Update packages. This issue causes actions that use the user profile service to fail. Here is a brief description of the issue from the SharePoint team’s blog: “The October Cumulative...

So something that the SharePoint team has been working towards for awhile has finally come to fruition in the August CU this year. In the past it could be a real pain trying to figure out what patches were actually needed to get the different versions of SharePoint up to date and patched to the latest...

Great news! The SharePoint team has updated their blog with the latest update info as of the August Cumulative update. In addition they have started listing the correct patches needed as well as the order of patches, to get up to date from RTM (Fresh install) SharePoint all the way to the current updates...

I will be posting an update on patching SharePoint in a few days. This will account for updates that have come out after the infrastructure updates.

  One of the most common topics in regards to MOSS/WSS lately has been around the question: "What patches do I need in order to be up to date with MOSS/WSS?". The following will allow you to be up to date as of the Infrastructure update with the fewest number of patches/hotfixes that need...