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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:29 AM

How to upgrade your existing Microsoft Project VPC running on SQL 2005 to SQL Server 2008

I’m sure you have seen these cool SQL Reporting Services 2008 reports: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 – Sample Project Server Reports and would like to do the same in your favorite EPM demo VPC or you just have plenty of free time during
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:18 PM

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
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:47 PM

Persist SQL Server Analysis Services Roles settings Solution Starter on CodePlex

A new solution starter that demonstrates how to persist SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Roles settings in the Project Server OLAP database was released today on CodePlex . For instance you might require to create specific Roles in your OLAP database
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:15 PM

New SQL Reporting Services Sample Reports for Project Server

(August 20, 2009 update, check out this Second Report Pack for Project Server 2007 ) We have released last week an updated version of our EPM 2007 demo VPC. Please find below the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports used in that VPC. All these
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Attachment(s): EPM2007 VPC V2- SSRS Reports.zip
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:23 PM

Project Server Statistics

Do you ever need to do an audit of your Project Server 2007 data (prior to a migration, to cleanup unnecessary data, to track the historical volume of data...)? Please find attached a T-SQL script that will retrieve the following information: General
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Attachment(s): EPM2007 Statistics.txt
Friday, January 04, 2008 7:05 PM

SQL Server Best Practices

With the numbers of databases required in EPM 2007, it's key to have a well tuned and maintained database server. The following TechNet page gives a recap of all SQL Server Best Practices : Get the real-world guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:43 PM

Microsoft RML Utilities for SQL Server

Handy tool for your WSS/MOSS/EPM deployments. Brief Description Tools to help database administrators manage the performance of Microsoft SQL Server. Overview Do you know which databases or applications are using the most resources on your server? How
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:40 PM

Project Server Extended Report Pack from Project Conference

Following my presentation yesterday on reporting at the Project Conference in Seattle, please find below the "Extended" EPM report pack I demoed (leveraging SQL Server Reporting Services). Reports added are: Deliverables and Dependencies Issues and Risks
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Attachment(s): Microsoft Project 2007 Report Pack Extended Project Conference.zip
Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:07 PM

EPM Database Maintenance Tasks

After you deploy EPM 2007 in your production environment, I highly recommend you have a SQL maintenance plan in place. Maintenance tasks that should be in this plan include: Backup Check DB integrity Rebuild Index (-> update statistics) History cleanup
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:41 PM

Controlling the project workspaces list

By default when provision a Project Web Access site, the home page contains a webbox called “Project Workspaces” which display a list of all project’s WS that have been created. By default there are two ways to display the list of WS: “All Workspaces”
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Attachment(s): Project WS 1.rdl
Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:02 PM

Newly published content for Office Project Server 2007

You should probably bookmark this url: Newly published content for Office Project Server 2007 and check it on a regular basis for updated documentation on the EPM 2007 platform. For instance this month a detail guide on configuring OLAP for EPM 2007 using
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 4:43 PM

Configuring a SQL 2005 Analysis Repository for DSO9 instead of an Access MDB

The standard procedure to configure ( KB 921116 ) the Cube Building Services (Analysis Services 2005) for Project Server is to copy the Msmdrep.mdb file on a network share. ¾ Get a backup of a SQL 2000 AS Repository database (you can use the migration
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Attachment(s): AS2000_Repository_BAK.zip
Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:11 PM

Configuring Project Server 2007 with SQL Server Analysis Services 2005

When you use SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (please note you need to apply SP1), you'll have to follow the procedure described in this KB to configure the "cube refresh": http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/921116/en-us
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