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June 2008 - Posts

Microsoft Hypervisor Technology (Hyper-V) is RTM

Released today, a good overview in this press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/jun08/06-26hyperv.mspx Time to upgrade your EPM VPCs: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/06/25/how-to-upgrade-microsoft-project-vpc-to-hyper-v.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:24 PM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

How to analyze Microsoft Project Server HTTP traffic

What is the bandwidth requirement for Project Web Access (PWA)? How long does it take to load specific PWA pages? What are all HTTP calls for each component that make up a page? Why is the page taking so long to load? etc… If case you did not know, the Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:22 AM by chrisfie | 0 Comments

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server TechCenter

We have just launched a new “TechCenter” dedicated to Project Portfolio Server in TechNet, expect more documentation in the future: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/projportserver/default.aspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:21 PM by chrisfie | 0 Comments

How to upgrade Microsoft Project VPC to Hyper-V

Assuming you have downloaded the latest EPM 2007 demo VPC , please find below the procedure to convert it to Hyper-V (from Virtual PC); yes I have upgraded my Lenovo T61P from Windows Vista to Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64-bit to run Hyper-V anywhere Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:15 AM by chrisfie | 4 Comments

Microsoft Project Fx (mpFx) Version 1.0 -- Coming Soon... Help Needed!

Microsoft Project Fx ( mpFx ) is a class library that wraps the Project Server Interface (PSI) to foster code reuse, reduce complexity, and increase productivity for those developers building solutions with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. Version Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:36 AM by chrisfie | 0 Comments

Microsoft Project Server 2007 Books

While there are a lot of books on Microsoft Project 2007 (the desktop application), for instance: Microsoft Office Project 2007 Inside Out Microsoft Office Project 2007 Step by Step as far as I know only two five books have been published so far on Project Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:57 AM by chrisfie | 2 Comments

SharePoint Performance Tuning References

Thanks to Roger Lamb please find references to improve SharePoint’s and Project Server performance: Case Study: Using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability (TechNet) White Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:18 PM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Demos

Are you a Microsoft partner? Would you like to see these reports live ?: New SQL Reporting Services Sample Reports for Project Server New Excel Services Sample Reports for Project Server What is Innovation Process Management? Why should you consider using Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:01 PM by chrisfie | 2 Comments

Microsoft Project Content Recently Published

Demo Videos Watch this: Use lag and lead time This demo shows how to use lag and lead time to create gaps and overlaps between tasks in a project. Watch this: Create a project This demo shows how to create a project, set project properties, and set file Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:15 AM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Project Server 2007

Last week we released Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, and with it comes an out of the box integration with Project Server 2007. Both products address a common scenario: Line Of Business Integration (LOBI) between an ERP system and Project Server; in this Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:23 AM by chrisfie | 5 Comments

Update to Timesheet/My Tasks Tied Mode Customization on CodePlex

Thanks to Steven Haden the Timesheet/My Tasks Tied-Mode customization has been updated to handle the case when a timesheet has been modified by a timesheet manager. I have updated the code on this solution (and converted the solution to Visual Studio Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:05 PM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Latest SharePoint Developer Resources

Following TechEd Developers USA last week please find below key updates for SharePoint developers (which all Project Server developers are :)): SharePoint Development for .NET Developers A new landing page for SharePoint developers with lots of new content. Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 8:35 PM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

Microsoft Office Project at TechED IT Professionals next week

Simon Floyd, Michael Jordan, Emmanuel Fadullon, and myself will be attending TechEd IT Professionals next week in Orlando and we’ll be delivering the following EPM sessions: Code Title Time Description OFC255 Best Practices: Enabling Innovation Process Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 7:22 PM by chrisfie | 0 Comments

Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is ready for download

PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application that allows customers to monitor, analyze, and plan their business as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization. PerformancePoint Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 2:49 AM by chrisfie | 1 Comments

How to display Microsoft Project Task’s Notes field in a report

In MS Project you have the ability to add notes to each tasks in a project plan. This data is stored as an Image Data Type in the SQL database called TASK_RTF_NOTES (note that the field TASK_NOTES is a nvarchar of size 255 , thus you’ll only get the first Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:19 AM by chrisfie | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): Report TASK RTF NOTES.zip

Project Server Developer Bookmarks

Hello, For TechEd for Developers in Orlando I have compiled about 100 bookmarks Project developers should be aware of when customizing Project Server or Project 2007. This list contains bookmarks to key developers resources (MSDN, code samples from blogs, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:35 AM by chrisfie | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): Project Server 2007 - Developers Bookmarks - V1.doc
 
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