The SharePoint August 2011 Cumulative Update has been released, but has not been officially announced yet.  For those of you that are having issues with the User Profile Service, this update may help.

With this update, Microsoft is changing how it deploys updates for all Office Server products.  There is now ONE update file for all languages and SharePoint products.  This means that if you are running WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint 2010 Server, or Project…you just need to download one file.  Much more convenient!

Please note: You must have Service Pack 1 installed before installing this update.

You can get more information on this release and links to the downloads on Stefan Gobner’s blog here.

Here is a list of fixes from the SharePoint 2010 Server KB2553048 page…

• The Activity Feed displays incorrect colleague information in SharePoint Server 2010. This issue specifically occurs when the colleagues are added through the User Profile Change Job in the User Profile Application.
• Assume that you plan to configure a user profile connection in SharePoint Server 2010. However, you cannot add a new mapping for case-sensitive string type attributes.
• Assume that you plan to configure a user profile connection in SharePoint Server 2010. However, you cannot add a new mapping for print case string type attributes.
• Consider the following scenario:
  • An Active Directory group has a name that is longer than 255 characters.
  • You create an AD synchronization connection to the AD group in SharePoint Server 2010.
  • You perform a full synchronization.

  In this scenario, the full synchronization does not finish successfully.

• Consider the following scenario:
  • A user posts some comments on a Note Board Web Part in SharePoint Server 2010.
  • You delete the user profile of the user.
  • You view the comments on the Note Board Web Part.

  In this scenario, the comments that the user posted are invisible.

• Assume that a custom Activity Directory attribute is a numeric string type attribute. In this situation, the Active Directory attribute cannot be mapped as a new property in SharePoint Server 2010.
• You restart the User Profile Synchronization service in SharePoint Server 2010 after you apply the hotfix package that is described in Knowledge Base article 2536599. In this situation, an exception occurs.
• In SharePoint Server 2010, the Audience Picker tries to reload a selected security group that contains a space character in its name. However, the Audience Picker cannot resolve the security group name, and it leaves the security group as an unresolved entity.