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

March 2008 - Posts

Developer Webcast this week!
If you remember my blog about the Developer Community from a few weeks ago - and joined up, then you should have seen an invite to a Webcast this week.  I have been invited to talk about extending development from Project Server to Microsoft Office Read More...
We might be building cube now... But not if you scheduled it for half-past!
In support we frequently have those moments that make us smile. Often they aren't things I would choose to blog about - but I will share this one. I certainly don't mean to trivialize bugs - and I do appreciate that they can cause a great deal of inconvenience Read More...
Slow OLAP Cube Builds and Large TempDB - Revisited
After quite a bit of work on this one it appears that SP1 (and a slightly earlier hotfix) were almost coincidental in this problem rather than being the cause - and it can occur even without SP1 if you add enough dimensions to your cubes. The best resolution Read More...
Lies and out-dated statistics
The saying goes that you can prove anything with statistics - and I am sure the same figures are being used by the McCain, Obama and Clinton camps to tell vastly different stories. But enough about politics - what has this to do with Project Server 2007? Read More...
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