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

Summary

This security update resolves a cross–site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability if Microsoft SharePoint Server does not correctly sanitize a specially crafted web request to an affected SharePoint server. To learn more about the vulnerability, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2019-0778 and CVE-2019-0604.

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 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

Makes the following improvement in SharePoint Server 2016:

• Adds support for the new Japan era in SharePoint Server 2016

Contains fixes for the following nonsecurity issues in SharePoint Server 2016:

• Enforces setting the SharePoint database compatibility level to 110 to avoid high CPU use when you use Microsoft SQL Server 2017 in the SharePoint farm.

• Fixes issues that affect the SharePoint Properties pane if the title or name of a document contain special characters in a document library.

• When you use the modern UI experience in OneDrive for Business on a computer that has a low resolution, you experience navigation issues on the OneDrive home page. For example, the navigation area on the left and the hamburger button are not displayed.

• Drag-and-drop operations for folders in a document library don't work. This issue occurs if you access the document library through the Chrome browser and the document library displays a managed metadata column.

• Sometimes, SharePoint Server 2016 users can't be redirected to OneDrive for Business in SharePoint Online even if the hybrid OneDrive for Business feature is enabled.

• Property demotion doesn't work for Word documents that contain ink objects.

• Property demotion corrupts data of the Office Mix Add-in for PowerPoint.

Contains a fix for the following nonsecurity issue in Project Server 2016:

• Editing a project-level custom field while on a project detail page (PDP) causes lost task-level calculated custom field values if the field formula includes the task's Unique ID.

How to get and install the update

More Information

How to get help and support for this security update

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