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Key Microsoft Project Resources

2009-11-25T15:07:10Z

Here is a list of Key Microsoft resources to know about Project Server. Enjoy !!

Enterprise Project Management Microsoft Project Main Project marketing site EPM Solutions and Scenarios Microsoft EPM Partner Portal Find a Partner Worldwide locations	Project Desktop Microsoft Project on Office Online Easier with Project: Project Desktop Home Page

IT Professionals /Administrators – TechNet Project TechCenter (2007, 2010…)	Developers – MSDN Project Developer Home Page

Team Blogs Project Team Project Programmability Project Administration EPM Content Publishing News SharePoint Team	Individual Blogs Brian Smith – Project Support Doug McBlog – Project Partners Christophe Fiessinger – Project News

Twitter http://twitter.com/MSFTProject

Facebook Microsoft Project

Videos www.youtube.com/MSFTProject

New Project Server 2010 documents available for download

2009-10-29T21:58:46Z

Two new documents are now available:

Project Server 2010 Upgrade Paths: that describes the options for upgrading from Project Server 2003 or 2007 to Project Server 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dd993c57-3829-438b-a09d-3e19cbb93e23

Project Portfolio Server 2007 to Project Server 2010 Paths and Considerations: that describes Project Portfolio Server 2007 migration to Project Server 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=12e25e2b-fda6-4fda-9f1b-fa39134e26ee

Updated Service pack 2 of Office Server 2007 released

2009-08-03T17:16:47Z

Welcome back, I will try to keep my posts more frequent and sorry for the long delay :-)

I just wanted to inform you that the Office Server 2007 Service pack 2 has been updated to remove the incorrect expiration date activation problem (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620/en-us) .

It can be downloaded here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082&displaylang=en

December Cumulative update: Database schema version and server Versions

2009-01-21T17:21:00Z

This table updates this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/shaden/archive/2008/01/10/migrated-to-sp1-checking-your-database-schema-version.aspx

With the latest database schema version after applying the December Cumulative update of Office server (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=960011)

Database

RTM

SP1

KB96011

SharePoint_Config

12.0.0.4518

3.0.7.0

3.0.10.0

12.0.0.4518

12.0.0.6219

3.0.7.0

3.0.10.0

12.0.0.4518

12.0.0.6219

12.0.0.6335

3.0.7.0

3.0.10.0

WSS_Content_XXX

12.0.0.4518

3.0.149.0

12.0.0.4518

12.0.0.6219

3.1.3.0

12.0.0.4518

12.0.0.6219

12.0.0.6335

3.1.6.0

SharedService

12.0.4518.1016

12.0.1.0

12.0.4518.1016

12.0.6219.1000

12.0.1.0

12.0.4518.1016

12.0.6219.1000

12.0.6335.5000

12.0.38.0

12.1.503.0

12.0.2.0

Check out this Tech Talk: Deploying Project Server 2007 in an existing SharePoint 2007 Farm

2008-11-10T21:09:55Z

We recorded last week with Christophe a Tech Talk at Tech-ED EMEA IT Professionals in Barcelona on our presentation Deploying Project Server 2007 in an Existing SharePoint Server 2007 Farm.

Check it out !

Blog to announce new EPM Content Publishing on Technet and Office Online

2008-08-25T12:14:16Z

A new blog has just been created to announce new EPM Content publishing on Technet and Office Online.

Check it here: http://blogs.technet.com/epmcontent/

Happy reading !

Some Links to know

2008-07-22T11:15:00Z

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 SP1:

WSS 3.0 SP1:
Microsoft Office Server 2007 SP1:
For the Client :Microsoft Office Project 2007 SP1

	x64	x86 (32 bits)
WSS 3.0 SP1 (KB936988)	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9fb41e51-cb03-4b47-b89a-396786492cba&DisplayLang=en	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4191a531-a2e9-45e4-b71e-5b0b17108bd2&DisplayLang=en
Office Server SP1 (KB936984)	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en
Project 2007 SP1 (KB937154)		http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cec3e1e2-d802-4a03-bc78-05c48472559b&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Infrastructure Update:

WSS 3.0 Infrastructure Update
Microsoft Office Server Infrastructure Update
For the client : Microsoft Office Project 2007

	x64	x86 (32 bits)
Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695)	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A74E566-CB4A-4DB9-851C-E3FBBE5E6D6E&displaylang=en	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=256CE3C3-6A42-4953-8E1B-E0BF27FD465B&displaylang=en
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6E4F31AB-AF25-47DF-9BF1-423E248FA6FC&displaylang=en	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3811C371-0E83-47C8-976B-0B7F26A3B3C4&displaylang=en
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB937154)		http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F385ADB8-0425-4BA4-BECE-7664B8F49D12&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 SDK December 2007:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2672f6f9-7028-4b30-99a2-18cb1eed1abe&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Resource Kit:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a33d253c-6424-48e4-b87e-0861d1977bb7&DisplayLang=en

Infrastructure Update

2008-07-16T01:29:26Z

On July 15th, 2008 Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. The updates are applicable to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Search Server 2008 & Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project 2007 ....(read more)

Estimate the Bandwidth used by EPM 2007 (part 1)

2008-07-02T23:21:04Z

I recently did a study to evaluate the bandwidth requirements for an outsourced EPM 2007 deployment. The Tool Fiddler was used to measure the http traffic ( http://www.fiddlertool.com ). The bandwidth is hard to estimate with EPM because the amount of data transferred depends of the customization done with the default product: Data displayed is dynamic and depends on the profile of the user The security of the user changes the amount of data shown, a typical user only sees the data he has permission...(read more)

Database Maintenance for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

2008-06-23T23:04:00Z

Database maintenance is essential for the health and the performance of your SharePoint ® Products and Technologies applications (EPM and/or MOSS). Check these white papers: Database Maintenance for Microsoft ® SharePoint ® Products and Technologies http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111531&clcid=0x409 Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for SharePoint: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105623&clcid=0x409 and this KB article How...(read more)

Migrated to MOSS 2007 SP1 or EPM 2007 SP1 .. checking your database schema version

2008-01-10T21:51:00Z

Updated with Infrastructure update Information (July 15th, 2008) You have decided to migrate to the SP1 of EPM 2007 and/or MOSS 2007. During the upgrade (done by the configuration wizard), the databases are upgraded also. If you want to check the schema version of the databases, you can use this query in any of your farm database: SELECT * FROM Versions The very last version that maps to the GUID {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} with the highest ID should equal the current version of the product...(read more)

Trial versions of Project Professional and Server 2007 are live (updated)

2007-11-01T22:16:00Z

The Office Project Server 2007 & Office Project Professional 2007 Trials are now live . You can begin the experience at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/eval/default.mspx Upon completion of this experience, you will have downloaded CD images and received product keys for each product. You will need to expand the images using the CD burning software of your choice before installing. The trial period for both apps 180 days from the date of installation. Office Project Portfolio Server...(read more)

MOSS: White paper: Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments

2007-10-26T16:39:00Z

A very good white paper has just been updated on Office Technet for MOSS: Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102839&clcid=0x409 See also Brian's blog article http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith/archive/2007/10/24/backup-and-restore-what-are-the-options.aspx Updated in June 2008: Now covers Farms of any size....(read more)

How to programmatically create a project server account (or profile) for Microsoft Office Project Professional (2003 or 2007)

2007-09-05T23:32:00Z

If you don't want to manually create your project server account for Microsoft Office Project Professional (2003 or 2007) , you can use the following VBscript code. You need to run this script in the context of the user: O ption Explicit Dim ProjObj Set ProjObj = CreateObject (" msproject.application ") if ProjObj.Profiles.Count = 1 Then ProjObj.Profiles.add " Production EPM ", "http:// www.contoso.com /projectserver" ProjObj.Profiles.DefaultProfile = ProjObj.Profiles.item (2) End IF ProjObj.Quit...(read more)

Moving the SharePoint Databases to a new SQL server instance

2007-07-05T22:28:00Z

(Updated 20071004) Well, you just have a brand new database server and you need to move all the databases from your old SQL server to the new SQL server. This is what I did to change the SQL server instance of an existing EPM farm. You cannot just backup and restore (or detach it) the databases. This is because the configuration database of your farm cannot be restored to a new SQL server. You have to use the backup/restore tools described here for EPM : http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/8aee655b-1f87-4729-bf30-e79ad0debeec1033.mspx?mfr=true...(read more)