Description of the security update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016: February 12, 2019

Summary

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2019-0594, Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2019-0604, and Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2019-0668.

Note To apply this security update, you must have the release version of Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 installed.

This public update delivers Feature Pack 2 for SharePoint Server 2016. Feature Pack 2 contains the following feature:

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

This public update also delivers all the features that were included in Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016, including:

• Administrative Actions Logging

• MinRole enhancements

• SharePoint Custom Tiles

• Hybrid Auditing (preview)

• Hybrid Taxonomy

• OneDrive API for SharePoint on-premises

• OneDrive for Business modern experience (available to Software Assurance customers)

The OneDrive for Business modern user experience requires an active Software Assurance contract at the time that the experience is enabled, either by installation of the public update or by manual enablement. If you don't have an active Software Assurance contract at the time of enablement, you must turn off the OneDrive for Business modern user experience.

For more information, see the following Microsoft Docs articles:

• New features included in the November 2016 Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1)

• New features included in the September 2017 Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 2)

Improvements and fixes

This security update contains the following improvement in SharePoint Server 2016:

• This update makes improvements to enable the new Japanese era in SharePoint Server 2016 when it is available.

This security update contains the following improvement in Project Server 2016:

• This update adds support in the client-side object model (CSOM) for setting the EnterpriseProjectType of a project by using the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API)..

This security update contains fixes for the following nonsecurity issues in SharePoint Server 2016:

• Assigned Badges icons are unexpectedly hidden in a discussions list, a Members list and the My Membership web part in a SharePoint community site.

• When you try to add a SharePoint hosted app in a SharePoint Online site, the app is not displayed on the App from your organization page.

• When you run a search query, the alternate access mapping function is always called. This call is expensive and may lead to a high CPU load on the server.

• When you run a search query by using the REST interface that contains the SortList query parameter, the query may fail with a SearchServiceException exception because the SortList parameter is case-sensitive.

Known issues in this security update

After this update is installed, search queries that are executed from a nondefault zone URL (an extended zone) don't return any results. 

To resolve this issue, install February 27, 2019, update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 (KB3085363).

How to get and install the update

More Information

How to get help and support for this security update

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