December 12, 2017, update for SharePoint Foundation 2013 (KB4011596)

Improvements and fixes

This update fixes the following issues:

• You cannot open the documents that you have view-only permission in Office Web applications, even if you have set to open the documents in desktop clients. Additionally, you receive the following denied error message:

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• The values of the Issue ID field are missing when you edit an issue tracking list in Quick Edit mode.

• In the conversation section of a pending access request, the date and time are displayed in the wrong time zone.

• You cannot create a site in SharePoint Foundation 2013 after you install the October 10, 2017, cumulative update for SharePoint Foundation 2013 (KB4011173).

This update also has the following improvements:

• Enables the new Document Information Panel feature that's visible in Word 2013.

• Changes the short names of the services that are using a built-in service account into display names so that it's easy to understand what service is described in the SharePoint health rules report.

• Improves the following Health Analyzer rules:

  • Renames the following two Health Analyzer rules titles for better wording:

    • "Health Analyzer: Some health analyzer rules do not have associated timer jobs" is renamed to "Health Analyzer: Some Health Analyzer rules are enabled but do not have any associated timer jobs".

    • "Health Analyzer: Databases exist on servers running SharePoint Foundation" is renamed to "Health Analyzer: Databases exist on servers running SharePoint".

  • Removes the following five Health Analyzer rules to reduce noise:

    • Health Analyzer: Database has large amounts of unused space

    • Health Analyzer: Alternate access URLs have not been configured

    • Health Analyzer: People search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting structure

    • Health Analyzer: Search - One or more crawl databases may have fragmented indices

    • Health Analyzer: Validate the My Site Host and individual My Sites are on a dedicated Web application and separate URL domain

  • Improves the SharePoint Health Analyzer algorithm that checks the free space in drives to handle large drives better. The algorithm will now report a warning if the free disk space is less than 10 GB, or report an error if the free disk space is less than 4 GB.

How to download and install the update

Update information

Prerequisites

To apply this update, you must have Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 Service Pack 1 installed.

Restart information

You don't have to restart the computer after you install this update.

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File information

For the list of files this cumulative update 4011596 contains, download the file information for update 4011596.