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February 2007 - Posts

My Queue is Stuck! - How to manage your queue service in Project Server 2007

The new world of Project Server 2007 and the architectural changes are catching a few of our customers out - and I thought I'd share a few tips and tricks for keeping the queue flowing - and some tips for getting things moving again if they appear to
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Monitoring Tools for Project Server 2007

I'm just playing around with both the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 and also the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System . Nothing much to report just
Posted by BriSmith | 4 Comments

Live.com Project Search Page

I can't imagine there are too many people who read my blog that don't also read Treb's postings from the Project product group - but just in case you missed it Treb has done some really cool stuff with Live.com's macros for search. Take a look and try
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Project Server 2007 with LDAP Authentication

For customers that used Project Server 2003 and made use of the “ProjectServer” accounts (non-Windows authenticated) they have a few choices in Project Server 2007. The first consideration I suggest is “why were you using ProjectServer accounts?”. If
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Common Error Messages when Building Cubes with Project Server 2007

I am reproducing some common errors, both from the USL logs and the Application Event logs to assist with troubleshooting cube building issues. These are in a sort of order that follows my previous article - so first I will give a description of the problem

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services - Building Cubes

Following on from my permissions piece with Project Server I will extend this logic to the service accounts and permissions to get a successful cube build. I'll start with an explanation of what goes on when building cubes which should help any troubleshooting

Operating System and SQL Permissions for the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Service Accounts

As part of some internal training I captured the details of which groups the various accounts that can be used for Project Server 2007 end up belonging to. I though this might be useful to share. The key thing here is that you do not normally need to
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One event handler and multiple PWA sites - Where did that event come from?

An interesting support case came in through our EMEA team (thanks Valdemar) where a customer had a single event handler that was registered in different sites - but when the event was raised they needed to know which site fired it - so they could make

Adding Timephased Actual Work through the PSI

There is some great content in the SDK on statusing (search for SubmitStatus and UpdateStatus) and even more coming soon. One of the missing pieces just at the moment is around adding timephased data. So here is a very brief example. See the SDK for better
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