Steven Haden's Blog : Project Server 2007

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

shaden — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Adding a new SSP Admin account to manage the SSP features

shaden — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:43:00 GMT

What happens when the person who installed and configured your MOSS or EPM solution is not there, and you need to access the SSP admin pages ?You get an access error. By default only the setup account that was used to create the SSP (also know as farms's...(read more)

Controlling your admin content database name (or avoiding having a GUID in its name)

shaden — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:58:00 GMT

I am often asked, how to control the name of the admin content databases when you install and configure Project Server 2007 or MOSS. The databases are not automatically created when you install the product. The installation just install the binaries....(read more)

Why use SQL 2005 SP2 with Project Server 2007: Reporting Services Add-in

shaden — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:33:00 GMT

The SQL 2005 SP2 has just been out for a couple of weeks now.. It brings a nice new feature in terms of reporting:

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1E53F882-0C16-4847-B331-132274AE8C84&displaylang=en

With this add-in you can can use its Report Viewer Web Part that provides report viewing capability, export to other rendering formats, page navigation, search, print, and zoom. Combine this web part with reports generated for Project Server 2007, and you have a very nice reporting feature that you can integrate in your EPM portal.

To get started with using Reporting services and Project Server 2007, check Treb's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/project/archive/2007/01/30/sql-server-reporting-services-report-pack-for-project-server-2007.aspx