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Updated with Infrastructure update Information (July 15th, 2008) You have decided to migrate to the SP1 of EPM 2007 and/or MOSS 2007. During the upgrade (done by the configuration wizard), the databases are upgraded also. If you want to check the schema...

(Updated 20071004) Well, you just have a brand new database server and you need to move all the databases from your old SQL server to the new SQL server. This is what I did to change the SQL server instance of an existing EPM farm. You cannot...

You want to configure Data analysis Views in an extranet configuration. Here are the steps I did: Configure HTTP access to SSAS following the description given here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/httpssas.mspx This installation...

On a new server installation of MOSS 2007 and Project Server 2007 together, I had a problem applying KB 932091, update to WSS 3.0. My system was rebooted (by mistake) before the update was finished. After that the system was unstable: I could...

I am often asked, how to control the name of the admin content databases when you install and configure Project Server 2007 or MOSS. The databases are not automatically created when you install the product. The installation just install the binaries...

If you don't want to manually create your project server account for Microsoft Office Project Professional (2003 or 2007) , you can use the following VBscript code. You need to run this script in the context of the user: O ption Explicit Dim...

A very good white paper has just been updated on Office Technet for MOSS: Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102839&clcid=0x409 See also Brian's...

On July 15th, 2008 Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. ...

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 SP1: WSS 3.0 SP1: Microsoft Office Server 2007 SP1: For the Client :Microsoft Office Project 2007 SP1 x64 x86 (32 bits) WSS 3.0 SP1 ( KB936988 ) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

A new blog has just been created to announce new EPM Content publishing on Technet and Office Online. Check it here: http://blogs.technet.com/epmcontent/ Happy reading !

We recorded last week with Christophe a Tech Talk at Tech-ED EMEA IT Professionals in Barcelona on our presentation Deploying Project Server 2007 in an Existing SharePoint Server 2007 Farm . Check it out !

Database maintenance is essential for the health and the performance of your SharePoint ® Products and Technologies applications (EPM and/or MOSS). Check these white papers: Database Maintenance for Microsoft ® SharePoint ® Products and Technologies...

I recently did a study to evaluate the bandwidth requirements for an outsourced EPM 2007 deployment. The Tool Fiddler was used to measure the http traffic ( http://www.fiddlertool.com ). The bandwidth is hard to estimate with EPM because the amount of...

  This table updates this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/shaden/archive/2008/01/10/migrated-to-sp1-checking-your-database-schema-version.aspx With the latest database schema version after applying the December Cumulative update of Office server ( http...

Welcome back, I will try to keep my posts more frequent and sorry for the long delay :-) I just wanted to inform you that the Office Server 2007 Service pack 2 has been updated to remove the incorrect expiration date activation problem ( http://support...

Two new documents are now available: Project Server 2010 Upgrade Paths: that describes the options for upgrading from Project Server 2003 or 2007 to Project Server 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dd993c57...

Here is a list of Key Microsoft resources to know about Project Server. Enjoy !! Enterprise Project Management Microsoft Project Main Project marketing site EPM Solutions and Scenarios Microsoft EPM Partner Portal Find a Partner Worldwide locations Project...

Hi, I have presented today with Franck , the following session: Project 2010 de A à Z – Vue du ciel. keep posted to have a link to our presentation..

Hello, It is sometimes difficult to follow the different updates (Service packs and CU) that are regularly released. The ultimate link is here on TechNet: Office Update Center http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx Happy updates !

This article will discuss some of the connection problems you can have when using Analysis Services 2005. There are several cases to consider: Building the cube on a single box installation versus multi box configuration (check Accessing the...

What happens when the person who installed and configured your MOSS or EPM solution is not there, and you need to access the SSP admin pages ?You get an access error. By default only the setup account that was used to create the SSP (also know as farms...

The Office Project Server 2007 & Office Project Professional 2007 Trials are now live . You can begin the experience at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/eval/default.mspx Upon completion of this experience, you will have downloaded...

The SQL 2005 SP2 has just been out for a couple of weeks now.. It brings a nice new feature in terms of reporting: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...