Microsoft has released the latest cumulative updates for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.  We recommend that you test hotfixes before you deploy them in a production environment. Because the builds are cumulative, each new fix release contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous update package. We recommend that you consider applying the most recent fix release that contains the hotfix that you need.

More information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2639884

The August 2011 cumulative update packages for Office 2010 and Office 2010 Servers are now available.

The cumulative update packages for August 2011 contain the latest hotfixes for the Microsoft Office 2010 core suite applications and for Microsoft Office 2010 servers.

We recommend that you test hotfixes before you deploy them in a production environment. Because the builds are cumulative, each new fix release contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous update package. We recommend that you consider applying the most recent fix release that contains the hotfix that you need.

Knowledgebase Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2588842

Recently I had a customer ask me about an issue they had with an InfoPath 2010 form template.  Below is the scenario, the issue and the final solution.

Scenario:

They had originally created a form template with some custom code and then published it to SharePoint as a content type.   To enable users to open a form with custom code the form template needs to be signed with a certificate; which they did.   

Jump forward one year…

The certificate expired, so they modified the form template to remove the custom code and instead used a web service that provided the same functionality.   They also changed the form options so that it would not be signed.  The updated form template was then published back out to the SharePoint content type.

Issue:

When a person who had used the form template in the past tried to open the new version of the template they received the error message “Form cannot be opened because either the signature is corrupt, or the certificate used to sign the form has expired or been revoked. To fix this problem, contact your form designer.”

A person that never opened the form template previously was able to open the template without any error.

Solution:

InfoPath was trying to open up the template using a pervious version of the form template which had been cached on the user’s computer.    Running the command “infopath /cache clearall” at a command prompt removed all cached form templates from the computer.  

Once the cache was cleared all of the users were able to use the new form template without issue.

Note: You may need to switch to the directory where Office was installed in order for the command to run.

All in all, we’re left with the feeling that Cloud Connect is a not-even-version-1 product. Even when working at its best, its user experience was crude and unpolished—and much of the time, it didn’t even work at its best.

The cumulative update packages for February 2011 contain the latest hotfixes released by Microsoft for Office and Office Server products.

All of the packages for Office 2010 suites, Office 2010 servers, Search Server 2010, FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, and SharePoint 2010 can be found in KB2493730 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2493730).

All of the packages released for Office 2007 suites, Office 2007 servers, Search Server 2008, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 can be found in KB2493732 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2493732).