Sunday, February 27, 2011

Task Assignment in Project Server 2010

There has been some scenario relating to Task status updates going to the EPM Administrator who create the Project and assigned a task to one Team member. However, during the course of time the Project ownership was transfered to a real Project Manager. Now after the ownership transfer occured the Team member updated his task and it directed to the Original Project owner (EPM administrator) who rejected the task.

Now This was a issue as it was not going to the Newly assigned Project Manager.

The resolution to this issue is simple:

Ensure the Project Manager opens the newly assigned project in Project Professional 2010 and Publishes it from his/her account; This will seal the ownership of the Project to newly assigned project manager and all previous pending task updates will now flow to this Project Manager.

Kinly let me know if you have any further questions on this item....


I hope this helps and assists you in your EPM / PPM Endeavor. Best Regards,Gokul Rajan

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Project Server 2007 Version Finder

The table below maps each release of Microsoft Project Server 2007 to its version number and corresponding KB article number.   You can locate the latest version number for Microsoft Project Server, do the following:

In the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, run the following query. 

USE <PROJECTSERVERNAME>_Published

SELECT * FROM Versions

WHERE VersionId ='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'

ORDER BY Id DESC

In the query above, replace <PROJECTSERSVERNAME> with your naming schema.

Project Server Release Name

Project Server Version Number

KB Article

Initial Release

12.0.4518.1016

  

January 31 Hotfix Package

12.0.6300.5000

941426

April 3rd Hotfix Package

12.0.6309.5000

950816

April 22nd Hotfix Package

12.0.6312.5000

951169

April 29  Hotfix Package

12.0.6313.5000

952000

May 8th Hotfix Package

12.0.6314.5000

952289

June 2nd Hotfix Package

12.0.6316.5000

953136

June 9th Hotfix Package

12.0.6317.5000

953478

Service Pack 1

12.0.6218.1000

936134

Infrastructure Update

12.0.6318.5000

951297

August 2008 Cumulative Update

12.0.6327.5000

956061

October 2008 Cumulative Update

12.0.6331.5000

957696

December 2008 Cumulative Update

12.0.6335.5000

960313

February 2009 Cumulative Update

12.0.6341.5002

968271

Service Pack 2

12.0.6422.1000

953334

April 2009 Cumulative Update

12.0.6503.5000

968860

June 2009 Cumulative Update

12.0.6510.5003

971502

August 2009 Cumulative Update

12.0.6514.5000

973937


 

To locate the version number for Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 or Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, use one of the following methods:

Method 1

On the Windows desktop, click Start, and then click Control Panel.

In the Control Panel, click Programs, and then click Programs and Features.

If the Versions field is not displayed in the Programs and Features list, do the following:

Right click the field header for the Name field, and then click More.

In the Choose Details dialog box, click to enable Version, and then click OK.

In the Programs and Features list, scroll down to location Microsoft Office Project Professional or Microsoft Project Standard 2007.

Method 2

Start Microsoft Project.

In the Help menu, click About.

Project client Release Name

Project client Version Number 

KB Article

Initial Release

4518.1016

  

January 28th Hotfix

6300.5000

941657

March 22nd Hotfix

6300.5000

950284

April 30th Hotfix

6312.5000

952067

May 8th Hotfix

6314.5000

952293

Service Pack 1

6215.1000

937154

Infrastructure Update

6318.5000

951547

August 2008 Cumulative Update

6327.5000

956060

October 2008 Cumulative Update

6331.5000

958138

December 2008 Cumulative Update

6334.5000

959643

February 2009 Cumulative Update

6341.5002

966308

Service Pack 2

6423.1000

953326

April 2009 Cumulative Update

6503.5000

969409

June 2009 Cumulative Update

6510.5000

971501

August 2009 Cumulative Update

6514.5000

973930

 
 

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Removing MySite functionality from PWA

  1. First, in order to follow these steps you will need administrator access to the SharePoint Central Administration site for your SharePoint installation.
  2. Go to the Central Administration Web Page
  3. Click on the link for Shared Services Administration
  4. If you have more than one SSP, select the one that is running the My Sites functionality for your PWA instance.
  5. Under "User Profiles and My Sites" click Personalization Services Permissions
  6. Select the group you want remove the My Site/Links functionality from.  In most cases this will simply be NTAuthority\Authenticated Users
  7. In the next screen you will see a list of checkboxes,
    1. To disable MySites uncheck "Create Personal Site"
    2. To disable MyLinks uncheck "Use Personal Features"

Monday, September 28, 2009

Migrating Monitoring Server data from a test environment

Migration of Monitoring Server from a test environment to a production environment is similar to the operation outlined in Backing up and restoring Monitoring Server databases.

Important:

Either Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services must be installed in order to successfully install and use Monitoring Server. The terms Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Services are used collectively in PerformancePoint Server documentation to refer to Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Procedure

Install Monitoring Server on the target computer

  • Before installing the Monitoring Server on the target computer, confirm that you have successfully completed the steps in Backing up and restoring Monitoring Server databases.
  • Launch Monitoring Server Configuration Manager.
  • Specify the imported database on the target instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 by clearing the Monitoring System Database check box in the configuration wizard. Click Next.
  • Specify the name of the database you have exported.
  • Using Notepad, update the Web.config file on the target computer to match the previous ConnectPerUser and CustomData settings on the source:
    • <appSettings>
    • <add Key="BPM.ServerConnectionPerUser" value="False" />
    • <add Key="BPM.UseASCustomData" value="False" />
  • Use Dashboard Designer to export the existing dashboards to the Windows SharePoint Services server installation.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Where SharePoint’s Config database is located

Well, Here it is.  SharePoint actually stores the connection to the configuration database in the registry. 
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Secure\ConfigDB

Friday, September 11, 2009

Uninstalling Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

There is a easy way to Perform "Uninstallation of MOSS" on a standalone/farm server. The only viable way of doing things in standalone is follow the order below; However, for Farm based MOSS installation there are few more steps to be followed, which can guarantee clean removal of the software.

Steps to remove MOSS from your System/Server.

1. Remove Server from Farm

In Central Admin, Operations tab, Server in farm -- Remove server.

A word of caution: Always remove the Database / SMTP Servers first before removing the SharePoint Farm as you would have less problems removing the DB from SQL later.

You'll probably get an error message after you click remove, since the server isn't able to render the page anymore.

2. Remove Databases

Content DB, Config, Search, SSP, Etc.

3. Remove Web Applications

Use the IIS Management Console, remove all web applications related to the MOSS site.

4. Rename the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12 to 12_OLD

Now you can remove MOSS via add/remove programs.

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