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Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:15 PM

Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package: March 22, 2008

FYI just release on our Knowledge Base: 949982 Also note the following article: How to obtain the latest service pack for the 2007 Office server products If if you want to stay up to date with KB articles I recommend a subscription to the following RSS
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Friday, March 28, 2008 9:40 PM

Project Server and Portfolio Server Sessions at TechEd 2008

TechED 2008 – Developers and TechEd 2008 - IT Professionals are two months away! Please find below the EPM sessions that will be delivered at these events: TechED 2008 – Developers Customizing the Microsoft Office Project Web Access User Interface Line-of-Business
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Friday, March 28, 2008 8:22 PM

Why consider SQL Server 2008 for your EPM farm?

In case you have not heard, we’ll be launching a new version of SQL Server in 2008 (in the second half of this year)! Why consider SQL Server 2008 with Project Server or Portfolio Server 2007? Joel Oleson wrote the following post recently on that subject:
Posted by chrisfie | 3 Comments
Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:57 AM

Physical storage and physical topology recommendations

Two very useful SharePoint Server articles have been published on TechNet that are directly applicable to a Project Server farm. As I mentioned yesterday a properly configured SQL server will help Improving Queue Performance . Physical storage recommendations
Posted by chrisfie | 1 Comments
Friday, March 21, 2008 11:14 AM

Improving Queue Performance

Lately I’ve heard a few requests to improve the Project Server queue performance. For instance some of the request I’ve heard are: improve the publishing time from Project Professional, improve the timesheet processing time, etc… Before going further
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:32 AM

Windows 2008’s Hyper-V Release Candidate is available!

Virtualization Team Blog announcement: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/03/19/hyper-v-release-candidate-is-here.aspx Microsoft Official announcement: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtualization-consolidation.aspx
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Monday, March 17, 2008 8:09 PM

Two new EPM blogs

I'm glad to announce to two new blogs in the EPM world written by top notch consultants: http://www.epmfaq.com/ Welcome to EPMFAQ! This site is run by Project Server deployment and development consultants for the benefit of all members of the Project
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Saturday, March 15, 2008 7:27 AM

Do not play memory games : deploy front end/application servers on 64-bit

I was recently visiting a large customer who had multiple Web Front End/Application servers (combined PWA and PSI) and each server had 12GB of memory. They were using Windows Server 2003 32-bit version. In a 32-bit environment only a fraction of the RAM
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Friday, March 14, 2008 12:53 AM

Search Project Server data using MOSS' BDC and Enterprise Search - CodePlex Solution Starter

Do you ever wonder how many projects are in a specific phase? Would you like to know the attributes of a specific resource? Are you looking when a specific milestone ends? Do you have users in your organization that are not part of the Project Server
Posted by chrisfie | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:33 PM

中国的Project Server社区，大家好！

非常感谢您能前来参加本周在北京举办的Project Server 2007技术培训。能够见到大家我感到很荣幸。希望你们能够继续从事Project Server 2007的部署实施工作，千万不要忘了我们在课堂上讲述的那些最佳实践，关键时刻，也许它们能帮上大忙！ 遇到问题的时候，你知道在哪里能找到答案，对啦，我的Blog!! 我可不是为了提高点击率啊。:)
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:00 PM

Evaluating EPM Partner Solutions and Applications built on Project Server/Portfolio Server

Joel Oleson blogged today about: Evaluating SharePoint Partner Solutions and Applications built on SharePoint , he summarized five questions you should ask when evaluating a custom solution: Do they directly update or modify the database? What is the
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:04 AM

How to create a Milestone Report

While delivering Project Server training in Beijing, a customer asked me to produce a report that displayed Milestones dates by Projects. The assumption is that all projects are using the same project template and thus there is a specific naming convention
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Monday, March 10, 2008 9:59 AM

Back up and Restore Project Server 2007 using STSADM

[update November 19, 2008] the links below are obsolete, please refer to this link instead: Protecting and restoring the farm (Office Project Server 2007) FYI two useful articles for any PS Administrator, were published on TechNet: Back up Project Server
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:48 PM

Microsoft server applications that are supported on Windows Server 2008

FYI in case you missed it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948680/en-us Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP1 Note This application is supported only on 32-bit operating systems. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/portfolioserver/FX101674151033.aspx
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Monday, March 03, 2008 6:49 PM

Microsoft Online Services for SharePoint

Bill Gates announced this morning at the SharePoint Conference a new online offering for SharePoint, following our Online strategy (Software + Services) : http://www.microsoft.com/online/sharepoint-online.mspx Microsoft SharePoint Online provides a highly
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