New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Packs Roll Out

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New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Packs Roll Out

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @07:27PM from the packed-with-services dept.

jones_supa writes "While service packs are out of style for the Windows operating system, Microsoft has pushed out another service pack (SP2) for both Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 products. According to the company, they provide key updates and fixes across servers, services and applications including security, stability, and performance enhancements and better compatibility with Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, Office 2013, and SharePoint 2013. The updates are available through Windows Update and as separate downloads."

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sharepoint by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-23 19:52 · Score: 2, Funny

Is anybody happy with using sharepoint?
1. Re:sharepoint by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-23 20:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Which part of "Microsoft product" did you not understand?
2. Re:sharepoint by Big+Hairy+Ian · 2013-07-24 02:11 · Score: 1
  
  The people who make the decision to but SharePoint are generally anything but nerds so how is this news for slashdot most of us wouldn't use SharePoint if you threatened to chop our cocks off!
  
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3. Re:sharepoint by Big+Hairy+Ian · 2013-07-24 02:12 · Score: 1
  
  buy SharePoint not but SharePoint DOH!
  
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4. Re:sharepoint by SoldierII · 2013-07-24 02:31 · Score: 0
  
  Is anybody happy with using sharepoint?
  I am pretty happy about it. Works great if you have competent administrators and good solid infrastructure.
AH !! YES !! TEMPTED BY THE FRUIT OF ANOTHER !! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-23 20:14 · Score: 0

Tempted but the truth is discovered !! Can we not just make it so LibreO* is better -- HM !!
Please note... by FaxeTheCat · 2013-07-23 20:22 · Score: 3, Insightful

...there is already a site more or less dedicated to announcements about Microsoft Service Packs. It is called Microsoft.com, and I think most people around here know about it, so we do not need another one.
1. Re:Please note... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-23 20:56 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  ...there is already a site more or less dedicated to announcements about Microsoft Service Packs. It is called Microsoft.com, and I think most people around here know about it, so we do not need another one.
  Did you complain about the /. article announcing the latest update to Apache OpenOffice yesterday, or is that different?
  Also, I can't help but feel you've missed the point of aggregator sites like Slashdot. Part of their purpose is saving you from having to constantly monitoring a pile of different sites for their version of news.
2. Re:Please note... by FaxeTheCat · 2013-07-23 21:33 · Score: 0
  
  Also, I can't help but feel you've missed the point of aggregator sites like Slashdot. Part of their purpose is saving you from having to constantly monitoring a pile of different sites for their version of news.
  Anybody running an MS infrastructure who is getting MS product news from /. have a serious issue with priorities.
3. Re:Please note... by FaxeTheCat · 2013-07-23 21:41 · Score: 0
  
  Did you complain about the /. article announcing the latest update to Apache OpenOffice [slashdot.org] yesterday, or is that different?
  One is about a new major version, the other is about service packs on products which are not even the latest version...?
4. Re:Please note... by Richard_at_work · 2013-07-23 21:54 · Score: 0
  
  I shall point to both your comment and kernel.org when there's another Slashdot story abut a Linux kernel point release or indeed another OpenOffice or LibreOffice point release.
5. Re:Please note... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-23 21:58 · Score: 1
  
  Anybody running an MS infrastructure who is getting MS product news from /. have a serious issue with priorities.
  Why, because you couldn't possibly read /. and get the update news from somewhere else? Besides, that argument applies just as well to the aforementioned Apache OpenOffice article. Why read /. for updates on that when you could just read the Apache website every day? Did you have a problem with the many articles on Slashdot about what MS was doing with Win8's UI? Or are product announcements from MS OK when the general opinion is that the new product is a train-wreck?
  I really hate to sound like I'm defending MS here but when it's fine to post an update about Apache OpenOffice one day but it's not OK to post an update about MS Office the very next day then there's a serious case of double-standards going on. I get that this is /. where for a long time the company was referred to as M$, but that's hardly a defence when somebody points out blatant bias.
6. Re:Please note... by westlake · 2013-07-23 22:48 · Score: 0
  
  ...there is already a site more or less dedicated to announcements about Microsoft Service Packs. It is called Microsoft.com,
  As an reader, you have the option of ignoring stories about systems and software you don't like. As a publisher, Slashdot can't afford to ignore the 90% of its potential audience that has a personal or professional interest in news about MS Office and Windows.
7. Re:Please note... by FaxeTheCat · 2013-07-23 23:35 · Score: 1
  
  As an reader, you have the option of ignoring stories about systems and software you don't like. As a publisher, Slashdot can't afford to ignore the 90% of its potential audience that has a personal or professional interest in news about MS Office and Windows.
  First: I actually like Office. SharePoint not so much, but it does the job. I use them both all the time.
  Second: As a reader I have the option of telling /. that I do not think updates to old versions of MS software is newsworthy on /.
  /. cannot afford not to take into consideration that if they lower the standard on what submissions are accepted, they may lose readers.
8. Re:Please note... by Gadget_Guy · 2013-07-23 23:53 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Anybody running an MS infrastructure who is getting MS product news from /. have a serious issue with priorities.
  Here's a quick tip to make Slashdot more efficient for you. If you don't want to read about updates to Microsoft products, just skip over the story and read the next one. That way you can filter out the articles that don't interest you while those people who don't want to spend every day with their eyes glued to Microsoft's website can still get the information that they need. Remember that it is supposed to be "News for nerds" and not "News for FaxeTheCat".
  The mistake that you made here today was wasting your time writing five posts to say that this topic doesn't interest you.
9. Re:Please note... by I'm+New+Around+Here · 2013-07-24 00:18 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  But I still think that posting news about a trivial update on /. is a waste of time and space.
  Yet here you are wasting our time and space griping about it.
  I for one am happy to hear about this service pack, even though it is for a previous version of Office. Mainly because Office 2013 is a horrible eyesore, and I recommend to my customers they stick with 2010, or upgrade to it if they are running something older still on a PC that we are replacing.
  So news of the update is welcome for me, regardless of where I hear about it. And, no, I am not going to troll through Microsoft's pages every day looking for update news.
  
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10. Re:Please note... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-24 03:11 · Score: 0
  
  This is a DISCUSSION site. Nobody comes here for news, which is usually covered by everyone else days earlier. People come to DISCUSS the news. If you don't want to read the discussions about a news item you already know about, just don't click the link. Joining the discussion to complain about the submission (which slashdotters vote on in the firehose) will do nothing but harm your karma... as you can see from the big fat "0, flamebait".
11. Re:Please note... by hairyfeet · 2013-07-24 05:26 · Score: 1
  
  Hell you don't even have to do that as /. has built in filters that let you block any stories you don't want, this is how I keep from seeing the majority of Linux articles, just check the boxes, add a few keywords (in my case words like Redhat and Ubuntu, in this guys case words like Microsoft, Sharepoint,etc) and voila! No more crap you don't care about.
  Now if there was only a way to filter out AC posts while not blocking registered users that were downmodded by groupthink I'd say this place was perfect, can't always get what you want though.
  
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12. Re:Please note... by Ravaldy · 2013-07-24 05:34 · Score: 1
  
  I second that. We are doing a large deployment next week. SP2 will be part of it to avoid excess online updating.
  Thank you /. for posting this.
13. Re:Please note... by citylivin · 2013-07-24 07:32 · Score: 1
  
  So when you go to www.microsoft.com (which I am sure you made your homepage and check every day by the sounds of your tone), a news item or popup alerts you that a service pack is available?
  Oh wait, that doesn't happen because m$.com is a marketing site not a tech news site. I for one was informed by these sorts of posts as one cannot possibly keep up with every vendor one has to maintain. Unless one is doing no real work and sits around reading vendor web pages all day.
  
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14. Re:Please note... by Killjoy_NL · 2013-07-24 18:45 · Score: 1
  
  Not just that, but here are discussions about problems some people might encounter and the possible causes and solutions or just helpful hints.
  I use Slashdot as a resource, not as my main newsfeed about updates.
  
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15. Re:Please note... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-24 20:45 · Score: 0
  
  FFS, how many comments have you written defending your ridiculous position?
  
  /. cannot afford not to take into consideration that if they lower the standard on what submissions are accepted, they may lose readers.
  If you keep up this level of whining, you're going to force your beloved Slashdot into purchasing a cluster of Oracle databases just to hold your comments.
And this is news because? by jargonburn · 2013-07-23 20:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

I mean, yes, the service pack is claim to improve compatibility with Microsoft's most recent cop-out of an OS. In my experience, people buy new copies Office infrequently enough [anecdotal evidence is not a citation] to warrant a little extra effort on their part. This is probably in part additional groundwork to convince people to upgrade to Windows 8.1/Blue as it comes to the market.

Probably the most important bits are the updating the Web Apps and improved compatibility with IE10. IE10 is usually fine, I can almost forget that it's not IE9....unless one of the irritating bugs occurs with it on one of my clients' machines. (To be fair, I can't say I've noticed those problems with it in Windows 8, only with Windows 7 machines that have had IE10 installed).
Still, I just don't think this was worth posting to Slashdot.

On another note, this bit at the end of the article caught my eye:

Even though these releases are service packs, and designed to fix problems, Microsoft has listed a couple of known issues associated with installing them...Microsoft recommends installing a particular update first...on a computer that has Windows Server 2003 SP2
And yet, they still couldn't be bothered to add in logic to detect the described circumstance and include that particular update as a prerequisite to the service pack.
Just....*ugh*.
1. Re:And this is news because? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-24 00:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I was going to ask the same thing.
  As a SP consultant, even I look at this and wonder why this is considered /. "news".
  Perhaps this is just more evidence of the changes since CmdrTaco, and it's just time to say goodbye :(
2. Re:And this is news because? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-24 17:40 · Score: 0
  
  It's news (and slashvertising) because of this:
  "Longtime Microsoft Booster Becomes Senior Editor at Slashdot"
  http://techrights.org/2013/07/11/slashdot-nicholas-kolakowski/
  Get used to an increasingly pro-MS and pro-"Excited about MS's new service packs and licensing 'news'" slashdot.
I would chump up for SP2013 by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-23 22:08 · Score: 0

With built in FAST search and Fast Query Language (FQL), Windows Azure Workflow (WAW), improved Business Connectivity Services (BCS), It would be wise to invest to here and adopt an Agile Scrum 2.0 template in Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS). Make your company sing for a song !
1. Re: I would chump up for SP2013 by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-23 23:48 · Score: 0
  
  How much did microsoft put in your panties for you to write that? Maybe they offered you a shinny new chair - oh wait, maybe they offered you a windows 8 tablet that nobody gives a shit aboout.
2. Re: I would chump up for SP2013 by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-24 04:04 · Score: 0
  
  100 pennies
One good thing by cellocgw · 2013-07-24 00:40 · Score: 2, Interesting

On the bright side: a Service Pack couldn't possibly make Office2010 any worse than it already is. (or COULD it? creepy music...)
I mean, really: do you know how embarrassing it is to send a finished document to your boss, have him throw it up on the screen in a review meeting, and see the formatting fouled up, all because his Office default is set to load the default Styles from his template, rather than stick with the ones in the (corporate template based) incoming document?

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1. Re:One good thing by tibit · 2013-07-24 01:15 · Score: 2
  
  If you mean it's embarrassing to the boss, then sure, I agree. Can't help them all.
  
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Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by Nimey · 2013-07-24 01:23 · Score: 1

A quick search hasn't turned up the answer: do I need to have Office 2010 SP1 installed for SP2 to go, or can I skip straight to SP2 from the gold release?

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1. Re:Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-24 01:30 · Score: 1
  
  Microsoft SPs have always been cumulative. They effectively represent many individual updates/fixes rolled up into one. You can install this on a freshly-installed Office 2010 and not have to worry about other patches, except maybe any released in the last month or so that may not have made the cut-off.
2. Re:Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by Nimey · 2013-07-24 01:32 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  No, not all MS SPs are. I give you Windows Vista, where you needed SP1 to be installed before SP2 would.
  Win7 would probably have been the same way if MS had bothered to make a second SP for it.
  
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3. Re:Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-24 02:21 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah, that was weird. And add to that, the slipstream process for Vista/7 require much more work than 2k/XP/2k3 would.
4. Re:Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by Nimey · 2013-07-24 03:11 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  The answer is no, you don't need SP1 installed first. I have experimentally verified this.
  
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5. Re:Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by ImprovOmega · 2013-07-24 09:06 · Score: 1
  
  Because they realigned the codebase for vista SP1 to match Server 2008 RTM. That made SP1 required for Vista to update to SP2.
6. Re:Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by ImprovOmega · 2013-07-24 09:08 · Score: 1
  
  I would argue that slipstreaming is vastly simpler in Vista/7. Add to that the fact that you can slip in absolutely anything you want (IE9, Apps, .Net, DirectX...) and I strongly prefer the new model to the old.
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