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Brian Smith's Project Support WebLog

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

September 2007 - Posts

PSI: Filter constraints and escaping the recursive event handler
A couple of topics that have come up through support incidents and comments posted here. The first on the use of the filter or xmlFilter parameters available in a few of the web services, and the second talking about event handlers and what happens if Read More...
Joining the translation bandwagon
I just saw Treb's posting on the new Windows Live Translator service that was rolled out this week - so I too have added a link in my News column on the left hand side. I hope this helps my readers who prefer to read their own language. I'm guessing it Read More...
So where did all these GUIDs come from?
Project Server 2007 makes much more use of GUIDs to identify different entities than the previous version so I thought I'd do a quick post to explain what they are, why we use them and how you should use them. GUIDs were originally a priestly class in Read More...
In case you missed it - Improving cube build performance
I know a lot of you already read Chris's Project Programmability blog - but in case you haven't seen this posting from last week it has a great tip for using the SQL Server 2005 capability of guiding a query to be executed in a specific way without touching Read More...
What do the Language Packs give you? Part 2: Office Clients
So we have seen in my previous post what server language packs do for Project Web Access, so now what happens on the client? The language packs and language settings work for all of Office, but I will be concentrating on Project. To change the settings Read More...
LDAP Forms Authentication revisited
I've had a few comments on the configuration of Forms Authentication using LDAP and thought it worth raising some of these points in a new posting. 1. LDAP forms authentication is only supported by Office Servers and not WSS The architecture for forms Read More...
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