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

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Project Server 2007: Have you ever got stuck in the timesheet import page?
I was working on a case today where a bug in one place makes something break elsewhere. And the added challenge here is the original problem probably goes un-noticed so isn’t obviously a problem. If you have ever tried to import a timesheet on the My Read More...
Project 2003 file formats that are blocked after you install Service Pack 3 and MS08-18
Quite a few customers have run into an issue since loading MS08-18 and the restriction on “legacy” file formats introduced in both this fix and SP3 for Project 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941466 . If you are not familiar with the issue then the Read More...
How to ensure your accepted updates get published in Project Server 2007
In Project Server 2003 updates needed to be made with Project Professional , and then when Project was closed an auto publish would happen – if you wanted it to or not.  Some people wanted it, some didn’t.  In 2007 as we don’t need to use Project Read More...
New Project Server content posted over the last couple of months
Thanks to our great UA team we have had a lot of new content posted over the last couple of months, including some great videos “how-to’s”, and some articles describing the Project Resource Kits tools.  Grouped into the different content types they Read More...
Sorry – another non-Project post – but take a look at Popfly Game Creator!
Going Live in Alpha today is the new Game Creator stuff on Popfly.  Seriously cool!   There is a Video demo up at Soapbox too. More information follows… The Popfly family just got a little bigger Popfly Game Creator | May 2 nd 2008 | 12:01PM Read More...
Project Server 2003 and Multilingual User Interface Packs
A rare Project Server 2003 posting from me to clarify some issue we see with customers applying the MUIs to Project Server 2003. Firstly if you are interested in using MUIs then 2007 language packs address some of the issues that 2003 suffers from.  Read More...
Which master pages can you edit in Project Server 2007?
A recent support incident showed that some of our documentation didn’t make it clear just what you can and can’t do with master pages.  There are two different types of sites in Project – PWA (the Project Web Access sites) and PWS (the project workspace Read More...
100 Posts Today!
According to my blog dashboard this is my 100th post!  So to celebrate I thought I would be totally self-indulgent (so nothing new there) and ignore Project and talk about something else.  It has been fun keeping the blog going and also great Read More...
Impersonation Within a Project Server 2007 Server-Side Event Handler
One topic that our customers and partners seem to be having a hard time with is impersonation. One reason is that the term we are using – impersonation – may already mean something to developers, and so the specific steps required to get impersonation Read More...
Project Server 2007 server-side event handling
Christophe has just posted on the Codeplex solution that allows easy handling of event handlers http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/04/15/deploying-a-custom-event-handler-has-never-been-easier.aspx and I had my first chance to play with this yesterday. Read More...
And here is the PowerPoint for the WebCast...
Seemed to hit some limit with everything in a zip - so here is the PowerPoint. Read More...
Project Server Developer Webcast Samples
Thanks to all of you who joined the Webcast today. I have attached a zip with the PowerPoint and some samples that were presented. For those who couldn't make it a brief summary so the samples make sense. First I re-hashed an old sample showing creation Read More...
More Role Guides for Project Server 2007 Now Available!
You may have already picked this up from some or all of the other Project blogs - but worth repeating as I know you have all been waiting for these! They are now available (similar to EPM 2003) here: Learn about available roles for Project Web Access Read More...
What were you doing in 1984? Hopefully not updating tasks in your current projects!
If this blog had a sub-title it would be "Task updates never get to Project Professional - even when they (eventually) say 100% Success". And the error message you might find in the ULS logs would be: Microsoft.Office.Project.Scheduling.SchedulingException: Read More...
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...
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