Description of the security update for Project Server 2013: May 8, 2018

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2018-8156.

Note To apply this security update, you must have the release version of Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Project Server 2013 installed on the computer.

This security update contains improvements and fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:

• After you publish a project plan, you look at the Manage Queue Jobs page and find that the ManagedModeTaskSynchronization job has failed, and you see error details similar to the following:

  GeneralQueueJobFailed (26000) - ManagedModeTaskSynchronization.SynchronizeTaskListInManagedModeMessage.

• The title on a Project Detail Page shows the "&" (ampersand) character displayed as "&amp".

• When you try to open a project from the Project Center while using Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 7, you receive the following error message:

  Action Not available. Project Professional needs to be installed to open the project. Install project and try again.

• Status managers see the following error message in the status updates history page:

  _error loading

• Consider the following scenario:

  • As a team member, you open your timesheet and enter work for two adjacent days.
  • On the first day, you set the actual work value back to zero.
  • On the first day, you set 8 hours of non-working time on an administrator task (for example, vacation)
  • You send a status update for approval.
  • You open the previous week timesheet.
  • You enter actual work values.
  • You send the timesheet for approval, and the status manager approves it.
  In this case, the actual work entered on the second of the two days moves to the first day. The actual work should not move when the status update is applied to the project.
• This update fixes the CRTL+S keyboard shortcut save functionality on Project Detail Pages for the Arabic, Finish, and Portuguese versions.