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Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:57 AM

My Blog Statistics

A few weeks ago, I did my 200th post since starting this blog, so following Brian Smith’s initiative I wanted to share with you statistic I have gathered from you dear readers :) for the past 90 days using Microsoft adCenter . It’s interesting to see
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:51 AM

Project Server Hyper-V Virtualization Support and Licensing

Please find an important announcement from the SharePoint team that impact the Project Server 2007 world as well: Update on Licensing and Virtualization Support for SharePoint Products and Technologies Project Server 2007 Service Pack and later is now
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:50 PM

Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint Released to CodePlex

Today we released the source code for the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint—based on the Silverlight Beta 2 release. The Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint provide a way for developers to better understand how to integrate Silverlight applications
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 2:05 AM

Sample code acceptance checklist for IT organizations

The following useful article was published for SharePoint: Sample code acceptance checklist for IT organizations Checklist covers the following areas (also contains a printable version): Security Session management Validation Sensitive data Exception
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Friday, August 15, 2008 10:38 PM

Project Infrastructure Update Know Issues

The associated Infrastructure Update KB ( 953750 ) article was recently updated with two know issues, as mentioned during the Webcast these two issues will be fixed in the August Cumulative Update. To request a Cumulative Update go to the following site
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:44 PM

Microsoft Project Infrastructure Update Webcast Slides

The slide deck with an overview of the Project and Project Server 2007 Infrastructure Update has been posted on EPMConnect : A briefing on the released Project Infrastructure Update - the quality has just got even better This 53 slide deck contains the
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:50 AM

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

In case you missed we just shipped both SP1 for VS 2008 and SP1 for the .Net Framework 3.5: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc533447.aspx Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 release notes and a list of fixed issues New in Visual Studio
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:18 PM

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and AJAX.NET

Thanks to Boris Scholl :) Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is built on top of Windows Sharepoint Services, so you might think you can develop AJAX Web Parts as you do in Windows Sharepoint Services, right? Unfortunately it’s not that easy. Actually
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:52 PM

Project Reportcard Solution Starter On CodePlex

Bob Segrest from BSegE LLC has recently published the following project on CodePlex: Project Reportcard ( http://www.codeplex.com/ProjectReportcard ) The Project Reportcard was developed as a tool to help Project Managers assess their projects based on
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Monday, August 11, 2008 11:30 PM

Deploy the Infrastructure Update for Office Project Server 2007

If case you have missed it, there is a useful TechNet article that describe how to deploy the Infrastructure Update for Project Server : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671413.aspx The equivalent SharePoint article is here: Install the Infrastructure
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Friday, August 08, 2008 7:34 AM

Welcome to the Project Server Help Blog

The blogging community is growing thanks to the Project Experts team , want to find out how to modify timesheet views and more check it out: RSS Subscription
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Friday, August 08, 2008 4:26 AM

How to deploy the Project Infrastructure Update on a virtual image (VHD)?

On July 15, 2008 we released the Infrastructure Update: Announcing the availability of the Project and Project Server 2007 Infrastructure Update Please find below the procedure to update a standalone virtual image (VHD). Depending on what data you have
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Friday, August 08, 2008 3:59 AM

How to extend the size of a virtual image (VHD)?

Let’s assume you have an EPM demo VPC with one disk and one partition of 19.53GB and you’d like to extend it to install additional software. Download VhdResizer , open the VHD you want to update and set its new size to 25GB for instance (Dynamic type)
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:35 PM

Project Server and PerformancePoint Server 2007 session at Business Intelligence Conference

William Brown from Symmetry Corporation and I will be giving the following session at the upcoming Business Intelligence Conference next October in Seattle: Performance Management for Projects using Microsoft Project and Office PerformancePoint Server
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:37 AM

Announcing the release of SQL Server 2008

It’s official: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx Check out the official site: Why consider SQL Server 2008 for your EPM farm? Before upgrading your EPM production farm please wait for the official supportability
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:50 PM

Microsoft Support Lifecycle and Project Server

Do you ever wonder how long we support our software and software updates such as Service Packs for instance? For instance how long will Project Server 2007 Service Pack 1 will be supported? All the answers can be found on this site: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:03 PM

How to upgrade your laptop/desktop to Windows Server 2008?

I have recently converted several desktops and laptops to Windows Server 2008 x64 to essentially leverage Hyper-V and be able to run x64 bit images of Project Server (Virtual PC nor Virtual Server can host x64 images). I’ve had not had any software nor
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:19 AM

Read My Blog in Multiple Languages Thanks to Windows Live Translator

Thanks to Windows Live Translator English technical content can be translated to German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Netherlands Dutch. Time to practice your French (a great
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