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Take a look over at http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectadministration/archive/2011/12/14/microsoft-project-server-and-sharepoint-server-2007-and-2010-december-2011-cu-announcement.aspx for the full details.  Also don’t forget the webcast in January giving you the inside scoop on what we are delivering...

*** Update *** 11/18/2010 - The issues have now been resolved and the links to the revised updates are now available. The KB number is unchanged, but the Revision Number on the article is 2.0 and the version of the patch is 14.0.5128.5003. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. ***Update*** Please see...

Thanks to Guillaume from TPG for pointing this out, and for Rob for digging out the answer. Our cumulative update for August was considerably smaller than the one for June. How come? Its cumulative isn’t it? Doesn’t it just get bigger? Well the change that happened with the August release...

There is plenty of excellent content on TechNet and MSDN about Project and Project Server, and it is updated regularly. To keep up with the updates what better than the RSS feed! Newly published content for Project Server 2010 - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197692.aspx and This...

A quick posting to finish the week – and one that has some history…  In the dim and distant past (perhaps as long ago as Project Server 2002…) when I first joined the support team I remember this being one of my first cases.  The answer hasn’t changed through to Project Server 2007 and Project...

*** Update *** Please see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/09/17/project-server-2010-applied-august-cu-and-having-problems-with-jsgrid.aspx if you are having issues with JSGrid after loading JUST the Project Server 2010 CU - KB 2276341 I posted over on the Project Administration blog...

I was doing some investigations this week on the Resource Plans Web Service and want to share this as it probably gives more information than we have in the SDK currently – or at least pulls it together.  The example I will be working towards is adding a resource to a resource plan, along with an...

Thanks to Jon and Mark on our team for this article on ADSync. Sometimes there are lingering questions around Project Server and Active Directory Sync or specific scenarios to watch for that aren't documented. One of the biggest of these is something we've come to call AD GUID mismatches. This is when...

This is a long time coming, prompted by a question on the forums http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/project2010custprog/thread/94af5d03-2606-4899-90aa-d17dddc3829b and a promise I made in my blog from 2007 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2007/12/06/setting-custom-field-values-using...

We have had a couple of questions recently relating to this, so thought I’d post some explanation.  In Project Server 2007 we hid the option to make flag custom fields required as soon as you selected a custom field type of ‘Flag’.  In 2010 we just greyed out the option, which might be what...

We released a security hot fix in June, that could have an impact on Project Server 2007, though if you have installed February 2010 Cumulative Update or later for SharePoint/Project Server you will have already received this patch – so do not need to read on. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-039 - Vulnerabilities...

Christophe has just blogged about a new webcast series we are starting in July where we will follow up the releases of cumulative updates with background details and time for questions and answers.  full details at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrisfie/archive/2010/06/16/microsoft-project-and-project...

One thing worth pointing out regarding the February CU for Project Server, is that we made no changes to the database schema as part of this cumulative update, and this means no update in the Versions table either. One usual way to see which update you have loaded is to look at the Versions table in...

Thanks to the Product Group, our partners in Office Sustained Engineering partners and of course Rob – who keeps this all running smoothly from the support side - we now have a new set of Cumulative Updates!  One fix that I know Mary is waiting for (we met at the Project Conference) is the ‘loading...

If you are interested in 2010 then the Product Group blog has a brand new article from Bonny on user controlled scheduling . This covers the ability to turn of the scheduling engine for selected tasks (task type changed from automatically scheduled to manually scheduled) and also introduces the new Task...

I posted a while back about an issue where the Application Server had an alias for the SQL Server, but when the Analysis Services cube build was requested the alias was passed to the Analysis Services server and it didn’t know the SQL Server by this alias (even if it was in fact the same server as SQL...

This is an issue that has been around for a while – the different versions of the SQL components between the SSRS add-in for SharePoint and the Analysis Services requirements for cube building caused a catch-22.  Thanks to Bart for finding a resolution to this - install the Management Objects Collection...

At the conference in Phoenix I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Adrian, Rohan and Soroush to present some of the questions we regularly get in support (and of course the answers!) as well as take questions from the floor. As usual with Adrian’s sessions it was standing room only. One topic...

Thanks to my colleague Trevor Turner for compiling the various places in Project Server and associated technologies that timeout values can be set.  This came about to resolve problems in the Resource Substitution Wizard – but is helpful information for other slow scenarios too – particularly when...

This posting came about based on a comment on my posting http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith/archive/2009/05/13/project-server-2007-my-filters-don-t-work-in-my-data-analysis-views.aspx from Dick Ruemmele.  Chris Bulson had also chased me up on this as I hadn’t had a chance to follow up.  The issue...

It is June the umptieth and the June Cumulative Update packages for Office Suite and Office Servers (including Project Server 2007) are now available.  Some of the KB articles are still on their way through the system so some of the links below may not work just yet.  The overall KB pointing...

If you are running Project Server 2007 in a virtualized environment, how do you know if it is supported or not?  As you may be aware we announced support through the Server Virtualization Validation Program , and now there is a Wizard to help you get a quick answer.  Just choose your product...

***Update*** The fix for this was released in the August CU for Project 2007 - KB973930 I know quite a few customers have run into this issue, and we have a fix in the pipeline which should see the light of day in the August CU, but to help just in case others come across this we thought it worth...

Following this post: Project Server 2007: License type set to trial after loading Office Server Service Pack 2 (SP2) , please find an important update from the SharePoint team : The public update to fix this issue is available for customers to download.  If you have any questions please send them...

For those who haven’t found Doug McCutcheon’s blog yet here is some breaking news on new ways for our partners in the EPM community to post and market their solutions. Also of great interest to our customers I am sure – on where they can go looking for solutions!  News from Doug is: Office System...