SharePoint 2016 - September 2016 PU Issue Fixed

In this article, we will list all the issues of SharePoint 2016 that are fixed in the June 2016 CU. This month, MSFT released two versions of it. The first one includes the fixes for LPs while the other one does not.

Improvements and fixes

This CU brings many Project Sever fixes, especially for the Language Packs. Here is the list of fixes published by MSFT

Project Server 2016

When you use a template to create a project in Project Web App, the duration of a fixed duration task is changed unexpectedly.
For a task that displays in a timeline on a SharePoint site, when you edit the task's date range from the callout, the timeline disappears.
When you use Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge, the focus is lost unexpectedly when you move bars up or down from one timeline to another.
When you publish certain projects that include timelines in Project Web App, the Schedule Project Detail Page doesn't load so that you can't see the schedule view.
For tasks that display in a timeline on a SharePoint site, when you click the Edit Date Range button for a task on the timeline, you receive an error that resembles the following:

Error message "Sorry, something went wrong"

Correlation ID: xxxxx
Date and Time: xxxx.

If you use the keyboard to select parts of the Project Summary web part, the visual focus may be stuck on the timeline section of the web part when at the same time the focus appears elsewhere. This causes screen readers not to work correctly.
When the focus is given to a check box on the Project Web App Resource Center page, nothing is ready by a reader because the column does not have a header.
On the Manage Timesheets page, a screen reader can't determine which cell is selected and therefore it can't read out the information in the cell to the user.
If project sites are created on a different site collection than Project Web App, the Web Admins group is created but user accounts are never synchronized to the group.
Consider the following scenario,

You have an Administrative Time category that allows multiple lines.
You create a timesheet.
On the timesheet, you create a new non-project line that uses the category.
You save the timesheet.
You go to the next timesheet period.

In this situation, the page fails to load and stays forever on the loading state.

You can't use keyboard to expand or collapse groupings in the grid on the Resource Center page.
Assume that you press the Tab key to move the focus on a column header on the Manage Timesheets page. Then, you press the Enter key in order to sort by this field. In this situation, the focus is lost from the column header, and you have to press the Tab key many times in order to return to the column header.
In a task list, when you click the Add button to add a new option from the Predecessors section and use the Tab key to navigate away from the Add button, visual focus disappears and you can't make selections from the Priority or the Task Status drop-down lists.
You can't use the keyboard to move the focus to the column headers in the grid for the Resource Center page. Therefore, you can't sort the grid by using the keyboard. After you install this update, you can tab to the column header and then press CTRL + SPACE to open the drop-down list. You can also press CTRL + Y to shift the focus to the column header for a grid cell.
You don't have the permission to create a project in Project Web App even if you are a project manager.
A server-side correlation cancelation on a save job causes deferred jobs to be canceled. For example, a team member submits time against a task and the status manager approves the update. Then, the project is checked out and the Status Update job state is listed as Skipped for Optimization. If a future save on the given project is canceled for whatever reason, the Skipped for Optimization status update job is also canceled.
After you delete a value from a custom field on the My Tasks page, the change isn't saved and the value comes back when you go to the My Tasks page again.

SharePoint Server 2016

Update SharePoint PowerShell cmdlet Help files.
To install the third-party notice file, it has to be embedded and put it in the top-level installation directory.
Update SharePoint Insights strings in multiple languages to make sure the consistency.
Translate some terms in multiple languages to make sure that the meaning is accurate.
Update translations of PowerPoint Conversion Service strings in multiple languages to make sure that the meaning is accurate.
Update translations for My Site strings in Polish in SharePoint Server 2016 to make sure that the meaning is accurate.

Fixes the following issues,

After you install this update, each error message displayed on the UI is limited to 2048 characters and an error tag is present at the end of each error message.
When the focus is given to a check box on the Project Web App Resource Center page, nothing is ready by a reader because the column does not have a header.

Language Dependent Fix

Translate some terms in multiple languages to make sure that the meaning is accurate.
Update translations for My Site strings in Polish in SharePoint Server 2016 to make sure that the meaning is accurate.
Update SharePoint Insights strings in multiple languages to make sure the consistency.
After you install this update, each error message that's displayed on the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard UI will be limited to 2048 characters and an error tag will be appended to the end of each error message.
Increase the time-out time for the Copy-SPSideBySideFiles command operation.
This update includes the following improvements and fixes for SharePoint Server 2016,

When you run the Set-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication cmdlet, you receive the following error message
An item with the same key has already been added.
This issue occurs after you restore the search service application database.
Incremental SPExport doesn't work in SharePoint Server 2016.
When you use a slider refiner template, the decimal search refiners are broken.
Third-party applications don't work with Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) writer for Microsoft SharePoint 2016.
When you try to attach a SharePoint server 2013 database with the Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) installed to SharePoint Server 2016, you receive an update error.
The Launch Dashboard Designer button is disabled on the ribbon of a PerformancePoint content list.
The Manage Lists permission is incorrectly required to override list behavior such as restrictions on who can create items and edit items. The Override List Behaviors permission should not be dependent on the Manage Lists permission.
You can't use the MinRole feature and the VSS writer service at the same time because the feature will disable the VSS writer service.
When you try to add a database to an availability group, a backup of the database isn't created automatically, and there may be redundant backups because there's no logic to determine whether a backup is created.

Installation

As we know, this Month MSFT Release two CUs (one Include the LPs and Other No LP). It is irrelevant which package you need to install (language independent or Language dependent) because Microsoft recommends installing both packages. Order of installation doesn’t matter, you can install either first. You need to Install the wssloc2016-kb3118295-fullfile-x64-glb.exe and sts2016-kb3118289-fullfile-x64-glb.exeon on all server in the farms. After that, you have to run the Config wizard on all server in the farm one by one.

Prerequisite

To apply this update, you must have Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 installed.

Restart information

If during the Installation of the Updates certain Component of the SharePoint is running then it will ask you to Restart the server. So it depends upon your server.

Schema Change

This update will update the database schema so that means schema and Patch Version will be changed. You will see the same Patch number and Build Number.

Patch Number

16.0.4432.1003

Reference

See Also

In this PU, we have a couple of known issues so beware before applying it to your SharePoint farm.

If you install the September 2016 public update for SharePoint Server 2016 and then perform a license upgrade from Standard to Enterprise, the license upgrade will time out before completing. This causes the license upgrade operation to fail.

If you want or need to perform a SharePoint 2016 license upgrade, you must complete the license upgrade before installing the September 2016 public update.
Patching and upgrading the September 2016 public update for SharePoint Server 2016 may take three times longer than in previous public updates. Please be patient while the patching and upgrading operations are completing.

Note

Microsoft confirms this issue fix in November 2016 PU.

See Also

Please check this Wiki for the SharePoint 2016 Build Numbers

SharePoint 2016 : Build Numbers