Description of the security update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016: August 11, 2020

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 the following security advisories:

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2020-1499

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2020-1503

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2020-1505

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2020-1580

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2020-1583

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2020-1500

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2020-1501

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2020-1573

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

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 Taxonomy

• OneDrive API for SharePoint on-premises

• OneDrive for Business modern user 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 fixes for SharePoint Server 2016:

• Fixes an issue in which Active Directory (AD) objects can't be imported.

• Fixes issues in the Traditional Chinese word breaker to make sure that input year string that have a prefix such as "西元/公元" can be broken correctly.

• Fixes an issue in which users cannot open the InfoPath forms that are available in the form library.

This security update contains a fix for the following nonsecurity issue in Project Server 2016:

• Buttons on the Tasks ribbon tab are disabled for the tasks that are listed beyond the first page.

How to get and install the update

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