This is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A33D253C-6424-48E4-B87E-0861D1977BB7&displaylang=en. Just had an e-mail from Phil Smail with these details:
The Project Resource Kit for Project 2007 has released. It’s available for x86 and x64 and the tools are English only The PRK consists of the following tools: · Portfolio Analyzer Views Migration: Allows an administrator to bulk edit the location of an analysis server for multiple data analysis views. · Project Server Settings Backup and Restore (Playbooks): Allows an administrator to backup Project Server settings and restore those settings to another Project Server. · Project Server Data Populator: Allows an administrator to populate Project Server with projects, resources and other objects. Useful for helping capacity and performance testing. · Project Workspace Site Relinker: Allows an administrator to relink the connection between Project Server and Project Workspace sites. · View Effective Rights: Allows an administrator to query the Project Server to determine the effective permissions of users against projects or resources. Full documentation will appear in the next couple of weeks but I’ll get early docs up on the Project blog either today or tomorrow
The Project Resource Kit for Project 2007 has released. It’s available for x86 and x64 and the tools are English only
The PRK consists of the following tools:
· Portfolio Analyzer Views Migration: Allows an administrator to bulk edit the location of an analysis server for multiple data analysis views.
· Project Server Settings Backup and Restore (Playbooks): Allows an administrator to backup Project Server settings and restore those settings to another Project Server.
· Project Server Data Populator: Allows an administrator to populate Project Server with projects, resources and other objects. Useful for helping capacity and performance testing.
· Project Workspace Site Relinker: Allows an administrator to relink the connection between Project Server and Project Workspace sites.
· View Effective Rights: Allows an administrator to query the Project Server to determine the effective permissions of users against projects or resources.
Full documentation will appear in the next couple of weeks but I’ll get early docs up on the Project blog either today or tomorrow
I'll be finding time to play with these over the next few days - and see the settings backup and restore tool as a really useful one. This may be something we use in support to get configuration details of your servers if we are investigating an issue that isn't data related - so we don't need the full database set - but need to know how you have configured your server.
Enjoy! And let us know how you get on with these.
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Brian, this is fantastic stuff. The settings transfer tool has been a long time coming, and the Site relinker is just absolutely crucial!
thanks!
Nico
Agree, great utility...
If I could ask just one more thing, it would be...Can I run this as a report...Would be great to have a documented config log of configured environments...
Thanks
Hi Duncan,
As the file it puts out is XML it should just be a case of throwing the right XLS at it to get a report in whatever format you want. There is my challenge to readers of this blog...
Then just build it into a timer process.
Best regards,
Brian.
i'm interesting with this feature ...
Project Server Settings Backup and Restore (Playbooks): Allows an administrator to backup Project Server settings and restore those settings to another Project Server.
But could i use this tool to backup all settings include database to another server. Cause i have plan to move my project server to another server, but when i tried to restore the database (i have already backup the server from old server).. its to many question that related to old server.
Im afraid it makes my old server could not running project server again. cause i still want to use my project server in old server.
Mocha
Hi Mocha,
I will probably do a posting in a couple of days positioning this against a backup/restore migration. Have you read my blog posting on backup? You should find it with a search.
Brian,
Have you had any time to look at the Backup and Restore?
I can't find any configuration information as when I execute the Playbooks.exe and enter my PWA site address it keeps complaining about the URL, name and password is incorrect.
Help. I need to copy my production PWA project, sites, global, etcc. to my test server.
Thank You.
Hi,
I am trying to install the resource kit on a windows 2003 x64, I download the file ProjectServerResourceKit(x64).exe from Microsoft and when I try to execute ViewEffectiveRights.exe the application close suddenly. I check the exe file and i discover that is a x86 application, I try to execute on a Windows 2003 x86 and work fine, any one have this issue?, how can i solve?
Thank you in advance, best regards
Hi Gabriel,
The tool is working fine for me on my x64 machine. How did you identify yours as x86? My exe is 100KB and dll 50KB for comparison if that helps.
Hi Brian,
In order to identify if the application is x86 or x64 i use the freeware utility "Dependency Walker for Win64 (x64)". My exe is 109KB and dll 50KB, because of that I suppose that is not the same version. The exe on the x86 download have the same size that in the x64 download. Which step must I follow in order to get an x64 version of this exe?
Hi Brian
I've the same problem as Gabriel
I got the following error message when using the console:
Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type
'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'.
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.MarshaledInvoke(Control caller, Delegate meth
od, Object[] args, Boolean synchronous)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method, Object[] args)
at ViewEffectiveRights.DataManager.RunLoadQuery(String query, DataSetCallback
callback, Object[] passThrough)
at ViewEffectiveRights.DataManager.RunLoadQuery(Object args)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, C
ontextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart(Object obj)
Any Ideas?
The connection to the database works, but I'm not able to enter any information
Thanks and best regards
I am out of the office at the moment - but I will look into this on my return and try and get an answer as to why Gabriel and Karina are running into this issue.
Brian
Has anyone tried the relinkallwsssites.exe? We moved our project server and wss to a new server and our project site workspace links are broken. When I try to use the relinkallwsssites tool, I keep getting the error below for the 'pwa' server.
ERROR: Unable to find specified server http://<mynewservername>/pwa. Check the input parameters and try again.
I can successfully navigate to the http://mynewservername/pwa. Any ideas would be welcomed. Thanks in advance.
I am trying to do a migration of data (backup and restore) between environments Project Server 2007 in different domains. Can it be done?
Thanks!
Has anyone come up with an answer for the URL, name and password problem with the playbooks tool? it was working for us and then stopped.
Thanks.
Anyone found a solution for the problem when running the relink tool
i keep getting this error, and have no idea what is causing it, the sites are working fine