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What's new and upcoming in the world of Microsoft Office Project Support (PSS).

March 2007 - Posts

An Unexpected Error Has Occurred, or Unknown Error in WSS 3.0
With Project Server 2007 being a WSS 3.0 application you may come across either of these error messages. The Unexpected error can appear on web part pages, and the Unknown error is more likely on pages without web parts. The two errors are really telling Read More...
SharePoint Configuration Step 8 of 9 is really slow all of a sudden!
We have been working on different SharePoint farm configurations recently and particularly those involving adding Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to a farm that already has Project Server loaded. The penultimate step - 8 of 9 - was being really slow Read More...
What makes a Good Repro when logging a support call
Sometime on a support call the customer will say "I have a great repro - just open this mpp file and things will crash!". Unfortunately this is a little like seeing an automobile wreck and trying to work out how the cars got where they did - and which Read More...
Project Server 2007 - Common installation problems
These are probably repeats for many of you reading - but based on personal experience there are still some people that haven't got these messages:- If you are going to run Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Read More...
RESOLVED! ActiveX Component Can't Create Object: Cube build failure against SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
The original posting is still repeated below to help with other's troubleshooting. I uninstalled the client tools to double check if the original instructions were OK. It turned out that I didn't have the SQL Server 2005 Management Objects installed - Read More...
My Queue is Still Stuck! - Troubleshooting Steps
As a follow up to my previous queue post these are the steps I follow when investigating queue issues:- Is the queue running? Check services and ULS/event log if for some reason it is not running at all - it could be a password change that means the Microsoft Read More...
Extending the PSI - new post on the Project Programmability Blog
Another great new post from Chris on Creating a PSI Extension. Where I think this will be really useful is if you need something back from the PSI that isn't quite formatted correctly to interact with your 3rd party system - or perhaps you need to consolidate Read More...
The Microsoft Office Support Blog
If you want to see a broader coverage of Microsoft Office support issues - along with some personal views of what working in support at Microsoft is really like then get along to the Microsoft Office Support Blog . The scope of this blog in their own Read More...
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