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February 2008 - Posts

Running SQL Server Profiler with Project Server

Quite often when you are performing customizations or when you want to troubleshoot your Project Server deployment it's useful to go "deep" and see what's happening under the SQL hood. The best way to achieve that is to run a SQL Server Profiler trace Read More...
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 7:15 AM by chrisfie | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): Project Server 2007 SQL Trace Template.tdf

Database Maintenance for SharePoint

Bill Baer’s white paper: Database Maintenance for SharePoint is now live. Table of Contents Check for and repair consistency errors by using DBCC CHECKDB 1 About DBCC CHECKDB 1 DBCC CHECKDB and performance 2 Measure and reduce fragmentation 3 Measure Read More...
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 6:35 AM by chrisfie | 2 Comments

Project Server 2007 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package

On December 11th, 2007 Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. We released this week the post-SP1 hotfix package (fixes made after the SP1 code base was locked down and up until SP1 is released), as well as Project Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 8:06 PM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

IT Manager Webcast: Deploying SharePoint Server with Project Server 2007

I'll be hosting the following webcast targeted at IT Professionals on Thursday, March 20, 2008, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Out of the box, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is deployed on top of Windows SharePoint Services. In this session, Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:43 AM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Advanced SharePoint Videos and Whitepapers available on TechNet

Watch lectures delivered by experts in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and download and read supporting white papers: Advanced lectures and white papers Overview: Office SharePoint Server server farm architecture Overview: Configuring server Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:32 AM by chrisfie | 2 Comments

Timesheet Data Population Tool on CodePlex

The Project Server 2007 Timesheet data population tool has been released on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/EPMTSdatapop The Project Server 2007 Timesheet Data Population Tool enables you to simulate timesheet entries in your farm . This tool can help Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:12 AM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

SharePoint post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package

SharePoint Server 2007 – KB 941274 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – KB 941422 These hotfix are intended to correct only the problem that is described in the KB articles above. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing the specific problem. Contact Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:41 PM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Project Portfolio Server 2007 Service Pack 1

PPS SP1 was released today. Description of Project Portfolio Server 2007 Service Pack 1: KB 942721 KB 942722 Download PPS SP1 This service pack can only be applied to an existing installation of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007. To install Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:33 AM by chrisfie | 3 Comments

Custom Project Initiation Solution Starter on CodePlex

A new solution starter that demonstrates how to leverage InfoPath & Forms Services as well Windows Workflow Foundation (hosted by SharePoint) to create your own project initiation phase has been released on CodePlex . The project initiation phase Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:47 PM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Project in a Terminal Services environment

Please find below useful links when deploying Project Standard or Project Professional on a Terminal Services (or Citrix) environment. A common issue I have heard/seen is that the version used on Terminal Services is incorrect (you need a Volume License Read More...
Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 9:30 PM by chrisfie | 0 Comments

Create an Excel's User Defined Function (UDF) to display web service data

Scenario You have built a Project Server Interface (PSI) extension to query the Reporting database and you would like to display the data in your favorite reporting tool: Excel. The solution is to create an Excel Services User Defined Function that will Read More...
Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 6:20 AM by chrisfie | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): ExcelPSUDF.zip

New Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) blog on MSDN

Since it's a recurring need for EPM deployment, BI/Reporting ... you might want to subscribe to that newly created blog to get the latest MS information: http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/ Welcome to THE BI Blog Welcome to what we hope will become the definitive Read More...
Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 12:42 AM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Project Server Session at SharePoint Conference

FYI we'll have two Project Server sessions at the next SharePoint Conference, March-6 in Seattle ( Interoperability and Business Process track): Why Customers Are Deploying SharePoint Server in Conjunction with Project Server 2007 for Effective Project Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:06 PM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

Overview The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool is a set of free models of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). The two models use the analysis and simulation features of System Center Capacity Planner Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:17 AM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Windows Server 2008 RTM on MSDN

FYI, first wave (x64 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish) is ready for download. More will follow in the coming weeks. Top 10 reasons to install Windows Server 2008 : Windows Server Virtualization A World-Class Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 5:55 PM by chrisfie | 0 Comments
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