Can anyone suggest the safest cumulative update after March CU 2021 ? Thanks in advance.

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Can anyone suggest the safest cumulative update after March CU 2021 ? Thanks in advance.

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Hi @Shradhanjali Biswal ,

Here is a blog about SharePoint Patching Best Practices.
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1.Evaluate and install all SharePoint security updates as soon as possible and install them shortly after they have been released.
2.Evaluate all SharePoint updates in a test environment which resembles the production environment before installing them in production.
3.Take backups before installing SharePoint updates.
4.For virtual servers you can take snapshots of all machines in the farm (important: only "cold" snapshots are supported – see below for more details) before installing new updates.
5.If you are using the command line tool PSCONFIG.EXE instead the SharePoint Configuration Wizard be sure to specify all required parameters.
6.After installing an additional language pack install the latest monthly update (for SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 only the language dependent fix) again to ensure that the newly installed language components are upgraded to the same patch level as the rest of the farm.
7.Keep Workflow Manager patching in sync with SharePoint patching.
8.Last but not least: consider migrating your on-premises SharePoint farm to SharePoint in Microsoft 365 – here the complete patching effort and various other administrative tasks are handled by Microsoft for you.

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