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

October 2007 - Posts

Project Conference Day 1
I had a chance to meet plenty of old friends today - and also put faces to names I have known for a while. It was good to meet all of you. Several people asked about the PowerPoint presentation so I have attached it to this posting. If I get time I may Read More...
Custom Fields and Lookup Tables
In Project Server 2007 the structure of the custom fields has changed and this is causing some confusion both for developers and for users. This isn't helped by our UI for creating and maintaining lookup tables. In this posting I intend to give some background Read More...
Backup and Restore - what are the options?
A while back I posted about the backup and restore process and recommended using the SharePoint utility in Central Administration. That is still my preference and I recently used this to rebuild my server farm including 3 servers, 2 shared service providers Read More...
Interesting Article on Project Programmability Blog - Issue and Risks web part timeout workaround
I missed this posting at the tail end of last month - so just calling it out in case some of you missed it too.  Scalable Issues and Risks Report! If you have lots of workspaces then a behavior you may have seen is the timeout of your PWA homepage, Read More...
A Couple of "Visual How Tos" added to the Online SDK
These short video clips are just over 10 minutes each and support the SDK articles Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Project Server Web Part and How to: Write and Debug a Project Server Event Handler . Both of these videos show Visual Basic being used - Read More...
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