Back to my Roots
July 25th, 2008
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New Disaster Recovery Info on TechNet
July 24th, 2008
If you deploy or manage a deployment of Project Server 2007 you should read this new content:
Originally by brianken from projectified on July 23, 2008, 5:31pm
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Project Server “Infrastructure Update” Client Version Numbers
July 24th, 2008
After you install the Infrastructure Update for Project Server these are the versions you will see on the client.
In IE you will see these two ActiveX controls:
Control Version ID
PJ12ENUC 12,0,4518,1014 {D5B680E5-9C5F-45E0-A97C-521D4F281173}
PJAdoInfo4 12,0,6320,5000 {E3089160-E8AD-4C5B-B47C-ADDF3DF660DD}
In the Project Professional version in Help | About: 12.0.613.5000
Originally by brianken from projectified on July 23, 2008, 7:23pm
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Microsoft Singularity
July 23rd, 2008
Originally from Colby Africa on July 23, 2008, 4:32pm
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Mapping Assignments Between a 2003 Task and a 2007 Task with mpFx
July 22nd, 2008
Originally from Colby Africa on July 22, 2008, 6:58pm
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Project server Event handlers
July 22nd, 2008
In sametimes i need detect that event was fired from another event handler
So I find that best approach is to store this information in JobUID , my event handlers using JouUID which begin with numbers 7,4,80,20 and there is pretty high chance that GUID with this numbers will not be generated in other code is really low. (1/2^64=2,3E-10)
static public Guid getGuid()
{
byte[] guidbyte = Guid.NewGuid().ToByteArray();
guidbyte[1]=7;
guidbyte[2]=4;
guidbyte[3]=80;
guidbyte[4] = 20;
return new Guid(guidbyte);
}
static public bool islocalGuid(Guid g)
{
byte[] guidbyte = g.ToByteArray();
return ((guidbyte[1] == 7) && (guidbyte[2] == 4) && (guidbyte[3] == 80) && (guidbyte[4] == 20));
}
public override void OnPublished(Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Library.PSContextInfo contextInfo, ProjectPostPublishEventArgs e)
{
if (islocalGuid (e.JobGuid)) return;
//……Your code ……
}
Originally from ProjectServer on July 22, 2008, 2:55pm
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Microsoft Project Content Recently Published (June-July)
July 22nd, 2008
Office Online Content and Demo Videos
- Connect with other Project users Connecting with the community of Project users has now gotten more interesting with the addition of more community resources.
- Project functions for custom fields Examples have been added to this popular article to you customize Project functions and fields.
- Use Project 2007 on Office Live You can now use Office Live to share Project files.
- Watch this: Create an inter-project dependency Watch the video on creating relationships between groups in your organization through Project dependencies.
- Watch This: Split a view Work like the pros. Learn now to split a few for easy task and resource manipulation.
TechNet Content
- Deploy the Infrastructure Update for Office Project Server 2007 This article describes how to install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.
- Report Data Service optimizations for custom fields This article provides some tips and examples that can help optimize custom reporting solutions built for the Reporting Database (RDB) of Office Project Server 2007. If you are interested in building custom views or applying custom indexes on any views in the RDB, read this article for some helper stored procedures that can be used in conjunction with your solutions.
- Project Server 2007 Infrastructure Update Release This white paper covers the new features and changes associated with the Project Client and Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007.
- Back up and restore your farm (Project Server 2007) With the new Infrastructure Update, the globally unique identifier (GUID) and change log of each content database are retained when you restore or re-attach the database. Therefore, if you are reattaching a recent database version, Search does not need to perform a full crawl to integrate the reattached content database. This is a substantial improvement over the RTM release of the product.
- Best practices for viewing proposals This article describes best practices for configuring the Proposals and Activities page in Project Web Access, including tips for obtaining best performance.
Last content published in June refer to: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/06/14/microsoft-project-content-recently-published.aspx
Originally by chrisfie from Christophe Fiessinger’s Blog on July 22, 2008, 9:16am
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Some Links to know
July 22nd, 2008
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 SP1:
- WSS 3.0 SP1:
- Microsoft Office Server 2007 SP1:
- For the Client :Microsoft Office Project 2007 SP1
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:
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Resource Kit:
Originally by shaden from Steven Haden’s Blog on July 22, 2008, 4:15am
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Infrastructure Update and Cost Resource Behavior
July 22nd, 2008
Hello, this is David Ducolon. You may have noticed that we have just released the post-SP1 “Infrastructure Release” of our software – one of the areas where we’ve made some changes is with Cost Resources, a feature I helped design and continue to own and love the feature area.
History
Cost resources were originally designed to fulfill the frequent customer request for more than one task-level fixed-cost entry with additional scope to support cost entry across multiple cost categories and across time for better cost tracking and possible accounting integration.. .
In keeping with the way in which a Task’s fixed cost works, we decided that the cost resource should also be as schedule agnostic as possible. Meaning the dates from the cost resource assignment should never have an impact on the task dates or level of completeness. By the time we released Project 2007, we had achieved much of that goal with a couple of known and avoidable things to watch for, more below.
After a year of learning
We’ve been very pleased with the rate of adoption of this new functionality, and especially at some of the more innovative uses in some deployments. However a couple of deployments have had issues with some unexpected side-effects from the implementation which have encouraged us to make some changes, especially around controlling schedule impacts, leading to my new vision:
Costs displayed should always show the left hand side and right hand side of usage views to be equal.
This may seem obvious but in Project there are often times when we show a single data value in two places on one screen. For example, cost of an assignment as a single value on the left and cost of an assignment time-phased on the right. By making this change cost resources became stable, predictable and above all accurate.
Enter Project Server into the mix…
Now I have talked about Cost Resources and Project but noticeably absent was any discussion of Project Server. Why? Well resources are assigned in Project and not in Project Server. But we cannot forget Project Server since work is updated via Project Server and with the 2007 release we have enhanced the server to calculate real time schedule updates.
So why am I mentioning this now? Because the scheduling and calculation engine of Project Server is unaware of cost resources and in spite of our most valiant efforts; the server may change the actual cost values for cost resources in ways that might seem to be corrupting the data when the feature is not used as designed. This leads me to our "User Scenarios to Avoid" or "Best Practice Use Cases" rules, follow these and you’ll enjoy success with the Cost Resource feature!
Rule 1 : Project Managers should avoid assigning cost resources to the same tasks as work or material resources, especially when those work or material resources are going to update their progress in Project Server. <What happens?>
Rule 2 : Avoid setting your resource default calendar to the 24 hour elapsed calendar since this setting on a cost resource may have unintended results. Again let me explain: costs do not have a capacity (8 hour or 24 hour work days) like work resources and to limit cost resources to only having a usage value would not allow cost resources to represent revenue. Therefore; costs will get scheduled under a 24hour calendar with very little regard for individual days in which they were allocated. And if this is done on a server without work resources on the task the start and end dates become hard to predict.
The remaining examples are much simpler so I will complete this post with a set of bullet points:
Rule 3: Do not disable cost calculation (tools\options\Calculation - Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Office Project). This will zero out all costs even the ones you as the user entered for cost resources not just the ones that Project calculated on behalf of you.
Rule 4: Avoid using undo on the "remaining duration" field for tasks where cost resources are assigned. Using the undo feature here will alter the cost values in the time-phased side of a usage screen and it does not always accurately restore a previous value of the cost. So if you insist on using this pay close attention to the cost values before and after.
And finally here is a last word of caution. Remember that Project knows what date today is and if you assign costs at a monthly level then be aware that costs for the current month will start on the date for today. This also applies to assignments that do not start on the first of the month or end on the last day of the month. Always think of costs at the day level regardless of the UI display scale. I mention this since at initial release the costs would have been distributed across the full period shown in the UI time scale.
Well that is all for now. Please reply to this post with any feedback – I’m always looking for suggestions on making this feature as useful as possible!
Originally by David Ducolon from Microsoft Office Project 2007 on July 21, 2008, 7:44pm
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July 21st, 2008
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