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How to Use a Default Counter Template to Capture perfmon Data

Posted over 1 year ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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How to Use a Default Counter Template to Capture perfmon Data. Go to Start > Run and type perfmon , then hit Enter . Expand Performance Logs and Alerts . Click Counter Logs . Right click in the space on the right and select New log settings...
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How to quiesce a SharePoint 2010 farm.

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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There is no longer an option in the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration page to "quiesce farm" as there was in SharePoint 2007. Stsadm commands article To quiesce SharePoint 2010, run this stsadm command: stsadm -o quiescefarm -maxduration n...
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Changing the Days to Weeks for Entering Actuals in My Tasks

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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A Project Server 2007 customer called me this morning to ask how to change the My Tasks view to show Days for entering Actual Work rather than Weeks. I’ve done this before and I though immediately of editing the web part to change that, but it...
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SharePoint Server 2010 Update Testing Procedure

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack and Cumulative Update Testing Process Contents Disclaimer 3 1. Software Updates Overview .. 4 2. Documentation and Testing Schedule . 5 2.1 This Document 5 2.2 Document the Environment...
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Project Server and Client February CUs have been released!

Posted over 1 year ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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The February 2012 CUs have been released and you can see the announcement here on the Project Administration Blog : Here are the KB article numbers for Project and Project Server versions: Project Client 2010 = KB 2597942 Project Server 2010 = KB...
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TFS Server Integration with Project Server 2010

Posted 9 months ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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Useful links Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and Microsoft Project Server Integration Feature Pack = http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg455680 . This link has all the links you need. I strongly recommend you read through all of the sub...
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How to Create Custom Views in Project Professional 2007 and 2010

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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How to Create Custom Views in Project Professional 2007 and 2010 Custom views are an extremely powerful way to relay critical information when you use a lot of enterprise custom fields (ECF). Because ECFs, by definition, are not included in default...
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How to filter a resource assignment view in PWA based on a Project level custom field in Project Pro

Posted over 1 year ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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How to Filter Resource Assignments in PWA by a Project Level Enterprise Custom Field Value in Project Pro 2007 Problem Statement Resources are assigned to many plans in Project Server going back several years. This has a tendency to make Resource...
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Configuring Excel Service Application for Business Intelligence Center in PWA

Posted 9 months ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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My teammate went on vacation and asked me to demonstrate reporting using the Excel Service Application in Project Server 2010 for reporting to his customer. He thanked me profusely for stepping in to cover him and then hightailed it out of the office...
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Link to "How to become a PFE at Microsoft"

Posted over 1 year ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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I am periodically asked how I became a PFE at Microsoft. The process is rigorous and you do need to have technical know how, but you will also need to demonstrate people skills. I found a great description from another PFE and wanted to share it: Here...
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Quick Demo: How calendars work in Project Professional

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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A customer told me that "the calendars don't work right" in Project Professional 2007, so I created a demo of what to expect using screenshots and a simple plan where you apply a calendar with no days off except weekends and the single day of December...
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Backward Compatibility Mode in Project Server 2010 After Upgrade

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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If you are testing Project Server 2010 by upgrading your Project Server 2007 databases in a test environment, then you may notice that the new 2010 feature of manual scheduling is not available. I worked with a customer today who had performed an upgrade...
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Moving Customized Project Workspace Templates Between Instances

Posted 8 months ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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Until recently, because I had never actually tried it, I thought that moving customized project workspace templates from Project Server 2007 to Project Server 2010 was simply a matter of saving a customized project workspace site as a template, then importing...
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Case studies of using Project, Portfolio, Team Foundation Server, and Project Server at Microsoft.

Posted over 1 year ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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Interesting case studies of using Project, Portfolio, Team Foundation Server, and Project Server at Microsoft. Enjoy! Microsoft Information Technology Group (MSIT) using Team Foundation Server with Project Server. Microsoft Human Resources using...
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Options for maintaining archival/historical Project Server 2007 data

Posted over 1 year ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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I have a customer who will be installing and configuring Project Server 2010 this summer. The upgrade plan is to configure Project Server 2010 as a fresh, new install with no data migration from Project Server 2007. This being the case, the question came...
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Auto Accept of Task Updates by Status Manager with Rule

Posted over 1 year ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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A customer called me complaining that the Status Manager on several tasks in a project was not receiving task updates sent by resources (Project Server 2007). The Status Manager had a rule in PWA > Task Updates under Actions > Manage Rules that...
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Link to "Microsoft Project Server 2007, 2010 and 2013 April 2013 CU Announcement"

Posted 1 month ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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Microsoft Project Server 2007, 2010 and 2013 April 2013 CU Announcement - http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2013/04/11/microsoft-project-server-2007-2010-and-2013-april-2013-cu-announcement.aspx
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Webcast for Project and Project Server 2007 and 2010 cumulative updates for December 2011

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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I just read on Brian Smith's Blog that the webcast for the December 2011 CU has been scheduled. Mark your calendars for the webcast on the December 2011 CU scheduled for 1/10/2012.
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Project Server 2013 Reporting Database Schema and OLAP Reference

Posted 3 months ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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I learned today that there is a Project Server 2013 reporting database schema tool that can be downloaded. Here's the link to more information and the download itself: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project_programmability/archive/2013/01/28/project-server-2013...
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Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 December 2011 CU Announcement

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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As announced on the Project Server Admin blog: Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 December 2011 CU Announcement
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"How Toy Story 2 Nearly Vanished" or "TEST your backups, people!"

Posted 10 months ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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Here's a link to a video short created by Pixar on how they lost almost all of Toy Story 2 and didn't have a good backup. I always recommend customers test their changes and plans for changes on a TEST environment before implementing anything in production...
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April 2012 Cumulative Updates Released

Posted 11 months ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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Wow, am I behind the times! Here's the link .
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How to Access All Available Commands in Project 2010

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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Every now and then, I find myself hunting for a command in Project 2010. Because of the Ribbon, things aren’t where they used to be in Project 2007 and a menu driven guy like me becomes easily confused. I’ve found a simple way to get access...
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The New Microsoft Project reaches RTM!

Posted 7 months ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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Very exciting new! http://blogs.office.com/b/project/archive/2012/10/11/the-new-microsoft-project-reaches-rtm.aspx I already have two test servers configured with the new Project Server!
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SharePoint Config Wizard fails with "SPUpgradeException: One or more types failed to load."

Posted 1 month ago

by Brooks White - Project Server PFE at Microsoft
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These things don't appear connected, but I was unable to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard while setting up Project Server 2007 on a test server. The configuration failed with this message: 04/05/2013 11:37:29 8 INF...

About Brooks White

I am a Microsoft Project Server PFE and have been working with Project Server since 2006. If you would like me to cover a specific topic, please let me know. I especially enjoy writing up "how to" entries, so if you'd like those, please ask by using the "Email Blog Author" link.

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Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products

How to Use a Default Counter Template to Capture perfmon Data

How to quiesce a SharePoint 2010 farm.

Changing the Days to Weeks for Entering Actuals in My Tasks

SharePoint Server 2010 Update Testing Procedure

Project Server and Client February CUs have been released!

TFS Server Integration with Project Server 2010

How to Create Custom Views in Project Professional 2007 and 2010

How to filter a resource assignment view in PWA based on a Project level custom field in Project Pro

Configuring Excel Service Application for Business Intelligence Center in PWA

Link to "How to become a PFE at Microsoft"

Quick Demo: How calendars work in Project Professional

Backward Compatibility Mode in Project Server 2010 After Upgrade

Moving Customized Project Workspace Templates Between Instances

Case studies of using Project, Portfolio, Team Foundation Server, and Project Server at Microsoft.

Options for maintaining archival/historical Project Server 2007 data

Auto Accept of Task Updates by Status Manager with Rule

Link to "Microsoft Project Server 2007, 2010 and 2013 April 2013 CU Announcement"

Webcast for Project and Project Server 2007 and 2010 cumulative updates for December 2011

Project Server 2013 Reporting Database Schema and OLAP Reference

Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 December 2011 CU Announcement

"How Toy Story 2 Nearly Vanished" or "TEST your backups, people!"

April 2012 Cumulative Updates Released

How to Access All Available Commands in Project 2010

The New Microsoft Project reaches RTM!

SharePoint Config Wizard fails with "SPUpgradeException: One or more types failed to load."