Brian Smith's Microsoft Project Support Blog

Project Server and Project Online: New posts this week

Brian Smith - MSFT — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:46:47 GMT

A few new posts this week over on the Project Support blog.

For the most recent I got to play with new shiny stuff – a MacBook Pro, and put it through its paces running against Project Online.
The April 2013 rollup CU package for Project Server 2013 was released (contrary to my initial posting…)
I covered a UI issue in Project Server 2013 and Project Online – transparent dropdowns.
A walk-through of the access points for PWA in Project Online – covering navigation, licensing and permissions.

Enjoy!

New Project Online posting over on ProjectSupport

Brian Smith - MSFT — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:14:48 GMT

I’ve covered off a few of the issues we see our early customers struggling with – signing up, the difference between Project Online and Project Pro for Office 365, licensing the users and sharing access to the Project Web App (PWA) – and a quick mention of trials. Head over to Getting started with Project Online for the full story.

Project Server: April 2013 CU Announcement–and important information on the March 2013 Public Update

Brian Smith - MSFT — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:02:00 GMT

Just posted the April 2013 Cumulative Update announcement for Project and Project Server 2013 and Project and Project Server 2010 on the Project Support blog. No updates for Project or Project Server 2007 – but I have included the WSS and MOSS updates. *** Update 4/12 - the MOSS server package does actually contain just a Project Server 2007 fix - for the switch around of the previous/next buttons - thanks Adrian for pointing this one out - I'd missed that one. ***

Also an important posting concerning the March 2013 Public Update for Project Server 2013 where you will get an error at the conclusion of the SharePoint Configuration Wizard that ‘Task upgrade has failed with a PostSetupConfigurationTaskException’ and in your upgrade logs you will see EventID ajxnf and errors like ‘WARNING Project Web Instance 'SharePoint - 80:PWA' can only be upgraded once its database 'ProjectWebApp' has been upgraded. ERROR Cannot upgrade [ProjectSite Name=f959de76-c4e9-4fa7-91a5-d9d9e287714b]. 38c20f9c-fdcc-b07a-f785-09836d46c179. The resolution is described in the post on the Project Support blog – and requires the April 2013 Cumulative Update for Project Server 2013 – details of which can be found in the April 2013 CU posting mentioned above.

SharePoint 2013: Problems opening documents with Office 2010 if you load Project 2013

Brian Smith - MSFT — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:25:00 GMT

Thanks to Jorge Ray (sorry Ray!) for this great blog post - http://blogs.technet.com/b/raymond_ris/archive/2013/04/04/cannot-open-or-create-word-documents-in-sharepoint-2013-with-office-2010-and-project-2013.aspx explaining how, after loading Project 2013 this can make your SharePoint libraries default to the 2013 versions of the protocol handlers. You might get a Url such as ms-word:nft|u|http://o15psvr:8080/Shared Documents/Forms/template.dotx|s|http://o15psvr:8080/Shared Documents for Word or ms-excel:ofv|u|http://sharePointDocumentlibraryURL for Excel.

The fix is easy – go take a look at Ray’s blog.

Project Online: New posts over on Project Support blog

Brian Smith - MSFT — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:56:27 GMT

And a new look for this blog – thought it was time for a spring clean (just as some more snow arrives), a new header picture and the new Microsoft logo.

The latest post on Project Support is titled Project Online- How do I get a copy of my databases- and people who know me will have guessed that the answer is that you don’t. More info over on the blog.

Project Server 2013 and Project Online: The new world of PWA Settings

Brian Smith - MSFT — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:38:58 GMT

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 a similar look – but at the Project Online PWA Settings to see what is available there - Project Online- Server Settings. So if you are wondering where your favorite server settings have gone to – or if they are still available anywhere – head on over and read the posts!

Any questions then post them either here or over on the Project Support blog.

Project Server 2013: February 2013 Cumulative Update delivered with March 2013 Public Update

Brian Smith - MSFT — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:53:12 GMT

Just posted over on the Project Support blog about the March 2013 Public update for Project Server 2013, which includes the fixes that were due to be delivered in the February 2013 Cumulative Update. The link is here - http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2013/03/18/project-server-2013-march-public-updates.aspx and I have also updated the more general CU release blog. Please note that this release of the March Public Update becomes the new baseline for CU installation – meaning that any future CU installations will require the March Public Update to be installed.

Project Server 2013: Managing Resources in Project Professional 2013

Brian Smith - MSFT — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:56:02 GMT

A couple of cross blog references here on resource management topics – and both affect Project Online as well as the on premise installations.

Firstly an issue where you cannot open more than a certain number of resources from your Resource Center in Project Professional 2013 – blogged over on the Project Support blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2013/03/11/project-server-2013-why-can-t-i-open-all-my-resources-from-the-resource-center.aspx. The numbers aren’t exact – but will be around 120 for IE9, then 520 or so for IE10, Chrome and Firefox. (This functionality doesn’t work at all in Sarafi on the PC, and obviously wouldn’t on the Mac).

The second one is from our very good friend Gary Chefetz over at MSProjectExperts and unlocks the key to the Windows Logon Account field if you wish to add resources via Project Professional 2013 - http://www.projectserverhelp.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=205 . Also note Gary’s comment on needing to select at least one resource from the existing resource center to open Pro up.

Project Online: Some early questions we are seeing in support

Brian Smith - MSFT — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:38:57 GMT

I just published a couple of posts on the Microsoft Project Support blog over on TechNet covering a couple of issues that appear to be catching our customers out.

The first is one on adding Project Online to an existing Office 365 plan that has not yet been upgraded with the recent service upgrade - Project Online- Why can’t I add it to my Office365 yet-

and the second relates to adding one plan to another – such as adding Project Pro for Office 365 to a Project Online plan - Project Online- How do I add Project Pro-

I hope you find these useful – and let me know how Project Online is going for you if you have already jumped in!

Microsoft Project Server 2007, 2010 and 2013 February 2013 CU release

Brian Smith - MSFT — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:40:44 GMT

Just in case you aren’t keeping up with the posts on the Project Support blog – head on over to http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2013/02/14/microsoft-project-server-2007-2010-and-2013-february-2013-cu-announcement.aspx for the details of the February 2012 Cumulative Updates (CU) for Project and Project Server 2007, 2010 and 2013. As mentioned previously, we are releasing earlier in the month – and plan to match “Patch Tuesday” (the second Tuesday of the month) in the even months.