Announcing the release of Service Pack 1 for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013

Microsoft has released service pack 1 for SharePoint 2013, Office, and Exchange server. This has been a much anticipated release as it was suppose to provide support for Windows Server 2012 R2. In the release notes it is mentioned that Exchange Server now supports 2012 R2, however I did not see a statement in the release that it is now supported by SharePoint. 

What’s new in SP1?

SP1 provides fixes to improve general stability, functionality, and security in Office, SharePoint Server, and related products. Among the functionality improvements and changes are the following:

• Compatibility fixes for Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11.
• Better support for modern hardware, such as high DPI devices and the precision touchpad.
• New apps for Office capabilities and APIs for developers.
• Power Map for Excel, a 3D visualization tool for mapping, exploring, and interacting with geographical and temporal data in Excel, is now available to Office 365 ProPlus subscription customers. You can learn more about Power Map general availability on the Power BI Blog.
• Improvements to the Click-to-Run virtualization technology that installs and updates Office 365 desktop applications.
• SkyDrive Pro is now OneDrive for Business.

A detailed list of SP1 fixes is available for download. Additionally, SP1 includes all the Public Updates (PU) and Cumulative Updates (CU) that have been released since the 2013 family of products first became available, up to the December 2013 CU and January 2014 PU. These are listed in the following KB articles:

• Security and Non-Security Updates for January 2014 – Released January 14, 2014
• Office 2013 December 2013 Cumulative Update (KB 2912738) – Released December 10, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for December 2013 (KB 2916204) – Released December 10, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for November 2013 – Released November 12, 2013
• Office 2013 October 2013 Cumulative Update – Released October 8, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for October 2013 – Released October 8, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for September 2013 – Released September 10, 2013
• Office 2013 August 2013 Cumulative Update – Released August 13, 2013
• Non-Security Updates for August 2013 – Released August 13, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for July 2013 – Released July 9, 2013
• Office 2013 June 2013 Cumulative Update – Released June 11, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for June 2013 – Released June 11, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for May 2013 – Released May 14, 2013
• Office 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Update – Released April 9, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for April 2013 – Released April 9, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for March 2013 – Released March 12, 2013
• Office 2013 February 2013 Cumulative Update – Released February 12, 2013
• Non-Security Updates for February 2013 – Released February 12, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for January 2013 – Released January 8, 2013
• Security and Non-Security Updates for December 2012 – Released December 11, 2012

Time to start getting this deployed and tested in some labs to see how everything goes and get ready for production deployments. I typically recommend holding off for 30 days before installing any service packs to ensure that there are no major issues reported.