Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 Products is Now Available for Download
Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 products includes stability, performance, and security enhancements that are a direct result of customer feedback and are designed to extend the value customers experience with SharePoint 2010.
Service Pack 1 includes all fixes released through April 2011 so it can be installed directly to RTM builds of SharePoint 2010 Products, or any prior Cumulative Update.
Some of the new features you can look forward to after installing SP1:
- The best new feature is Recycle bin: Lets you restore a site collection or a web that was deleted. If those pesky users "accidently" delete their web, no more worries. You can quickly and painlessly recover it from the Recycle Bin.
- SP1 brings back on old functionality from SharePoint 2007: StorMan.aspx, or Storage Manager. This page allows you to look at the storage throughout your site collection and find how much space your lists and libraries are using. This becomes particularly useful when you need to get your site collection size back under control relative to your site quota limitations, and is great information to have in general.
- Remote Backup Systems (RBS) and shallow copy can decrease downtime and increase efficiency by moving pointers to databases instead of moving databases.
- Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2011.
- A more robust Search Host Distribution service that improves error recovery and performance during the search crawl.
- Adds backup and restore functionality to recover deleted site collections and webs.
- Improved support for Internet Explorer 9.
Important -
Now before you install SP1 on your production farm, I highly recommend installing it in a test farm first. You want to make sure that your farm and any customizations you may have made are compatible with SP1. Remember, you cannot uninstall a SharePoint hotfix or Service Pack, so if things go horribly wrong the only recovery you have is rebuilding from your backups.
Now before you install SP1 on your production farm, I highly recommend installing it in a test farm first. You want to make sure that your farm and any customizations you may have made are compatible with SP1. Remember, you cannot uninstall a SharePoint hotfix or Service Pack, so if things go horribly wrong the only recovery you have is rebuilding from your backups.
After you install Service Pack 1 you must run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard (PSConfigUI.exe) to run upgrade which will update the farm to the latest version. The version of content databases will be 14.0.6029.1000 after successfully installation.
This step is required in order to have full SharePoint functionality. If you do not run PSConfigUI the farm will run, but with reduced capacity. For example, Search will not be able to index content.
You must restart the User Profile Synchronization service after installing Service Pack 1. For more information see the Start the User Profile Synchronization service section in the Configure profile synchronization article in the library.
