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A couple of postings today over on the Project Support blog – and I split this into two to hopefully avoid confusion.  The first looks at the changes in location of Server Settings in Project Server 2013 compared to Project Server 2010 - Project Server 2013- Server Settings .  The second takes...

Take a look over at  http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectadministration/archive/2012/02/29/microsoft-project-server-and-sharepoint-server-2007-and-2010-february-2012-cu-announcement.aspx for the full details of the release, and thanks to Rob for pulling the details together and of course to the engineering...

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...

I know that unless you load all the bits before running the Configuration Wizard then you will always add Project Server to an existing SharePoint Server farm – but in this blog I am specifically talking about adding Project Server to a farm that has been up and running for a while – and potentially...

Most days I learn something new, and yesterday was no exception.  I was working with one of our Senior Consultants, Rob Bowers, on an installation problem.  The SharePoint Configuration Wizard was failing during the initial configuration of the farm on step 3.  The error that came up was...

If you have the setting to allow personal tasks to be added to the timesheet then they of course could come from the user.  But what about the ones that haven’t been entered by the user and appear to have the same name as tasks that were in projects that they had already started work on?  We...

I was reviewing a case yesterday and just checking the behavior of SharePoint permissions in Project Web App after an upgrade from 2007 to 2010 – either in place or a 5 database  – thought this might be useful information to blog about.  In 2007 in the Project Web Access site the users would...

In SharePoint 2010 when you upgrade to a new Cumulative Update or Service Pack this involves two main steps – first is loading the binaries, and the second is running the SharePoint Server 2010 configuration wizard (psconfig or psconfigui). SharePoint supports delaying the running of the configuration...

Just for reference – I have added the April and June CU information, and some notes around SP1 versions, to the on-going blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/09/23/how-to-tell-which-cumulative-update-hotfix-or-service-pack-version-of-project-server-2010-and-project-2010-you-are...

I’ve just updated the running blog post that give the version numbers to identify the specific release of Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 you have loaded - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/09/23/how-to-tell-which-cumulative-update-hotfix-or-service-pack-version-of-project...

I posted a while back about Unknown Errors http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/07/02/project-server-2010-an-unknown-error-has-occurred-in-project-center-resource-center-or-tasks.aspx in various places in project “&” here is another one.  Thanks to Peter Drahos at Harvard University...

One question that came up recently was around the different behavior when starting from the same template but creating a new plan in Project Professional 2010 or in PWA through the Project Center or via the Project Web Service Method CreateProjectFromTemplate. PWA created projects will be the same as...

Changing Single Entry Mode (SEM) isn’t going to be an every day occurrence for most customers so hopefully not too many people will run in to this one – but it can take a while to work out what has happened to your tasks if you do happen to get caught out by this one.  If you have Single Entry Mode...

A quick revisit to the Language Pack topic – and a clarification on which languages work with Project Server 2010 – and what do I mean by ‘work’… In 2007 there were some SharePoint language packs that were ‘not supported’ with Project Server and these could...

This post rounds up a few of the more common issues that customers run into – either when provisioning a new Project Server 2010 Project Web App (PWA) site – or more commonly when provisioning a site against a set of existing databases (either 2007 or 2010 databases).  As you should know by now...

One of the options when setting up a custom field is to allow it to have multiple values selected from the lookup table.  There are however some downsides to this, and a recently discovered bug makes one of these downsides a higher risk than it should be.  This relates to OLAP cubes – and the...

We had a support case this week relating to the use of the samples from the SDK on a Spanish version of Project Server 2010.  It was possible to work around the initial issues by installing the English version, and applying the Spanish language pack – but this isn’t an ideal combination if Spanish...

This probably isn’t a very common scenario – but you may run in to it.  In My Tasks a resource has the ability to request a new task on any of the projects they are working on (Insert Row, Create a New Task).  This request goes to the project owner (as there isn’t the concept of a status manager...

Regular readers may remember the bad things that happened in Project Server 2007 if you loaded the SharePoint (WSS) templates known as the Fab 40 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2007/12/03/project-server-2007-users-beware-the-fabulous-40.aspx – and more specifically the ProjectTrackingWorkspace...

I’ve updated the earlier postings, but wanted to do a quick post to make sure this news gets out to my RSS subscribers.  Both the Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 October Cumulative Updates that were withdrawn have been revised and re-released.  The KB numbers stayed the same...

*** 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...

I’ll get this information into a KB article too, and I’ll also try and keep this posting up to date as we release each cumulative update or service pack for Project Server 2010 and Project 2010. If you are not reading this at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith then you may be reading out of...

Thanks to Donald for his forum posting and Marius for his swift response highlighting the resolution to this one.  If you have loaded the August CU for Project Server 2010 – KB 2276341, but have not loaded either the SharePoint Foundation 2010 August CU (KB 2266423), or any of the rollup packages...

This follows on from the posting on the structure of the Business Intelligence Center in Project Server 2010 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/08/24/project-server-2010-business-intelligence-center-behind-the-scenes.aspx and covers a few of the possible errors you might run in to. For Project...

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...