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.
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.
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.
The Infrastructure Update for Project Server 2007 (and Project Professional 2007) has been released and is now available for download. For a thorough explanation of the Project Infrastructure Update including download information, installation instructions, FAQ's, and links to knowledge base articles, I suggest reading Christophe Fiessinger's Blog or the Office Project Blog.
Published the week of July 14, 2008
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.
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.
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.
TechNet Content
Best practices for managing the Microsoft Office Project Server Queue Service
This article describes best practices for managing and troubleshooting the Queue system in Office Project Server 2007.
View the ULS logs for queue job entries
This article describes how to view Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 queue job entries in the ULS logs. It can be used in conjunction with the Manage Queue page in Project Web Access Server settings to help troubleshoot queue job issues.
Configure maximum job processor threads for the Project Server Queue service
This article provides guidance about how to configure the maximum job processor threads for each queue type for the Project Server queue service.
WhitePaper: A phased approach to deploying Enterprise Project Management
This whitepaper by Chris Vandersluis provides business decision makers, network administrators, and Project Server administrators guidance about various challenges you can face when planning to deploy the Enterprise Project Management solution in your environment. It is the feature article of the From the Trenches – Deploying EPM in the Real World column available on the Project Server 2007 TechCenter.
Back up and restore the Shared Services Provider
This article gives you an overview of the task of backing up and restoring the Shared Services Provider for Project Server 2007, and includes task requirements and best practices.
Back up the Shared Services Provider
This article provides procedural steps for backing up the Shared Services Provider for Project Server 2007, and includes task requirements.
Restore the Shared Services Provider
This article provides procedural steps for restoring the Shared Services Provider for Project Server 2007, and includes task requirements.
Demo Videos
Watch this: Use lag and lead time
This demo shows how to use lag and lead time to create gaps and overlaps between tasks in a project.
Watch this: Create a project
This demo shows how to create a project, set project properties, and set file properties.
Watch this: Set up a recurring task
This demo shows how to create a task that repeats on a set schedule throughout a project.
Watch this: Split a task
This demo shows how to interrupt a task, creating a gap between two portions of the task. It also shows how to move the entire split task, adjust the length of the gap created by the split, and rejoin the split portions of the task to remove the gap.
Watch this: Insert a task
This demo shows how to insert a new task between two existing tasks in a project.
Watch this: Group tasks or resources
This demo shows how to group tasks, remove the grouping, and create a new resource group using multiple criteria.
Watch this: Create a cross-project link
This demo shows how to create task dependencies across separate Project 2007 files.
Watch this: Link tasks in your project
This demo shows how to create task dependencies within a single project, and how to adjust the link type for the dependency.