I found a very interesting blog post from Russ on how to reduce a Cumulative Update installation from 5 hours to 16 minutes. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/04/01/why-sharepoint-2013-cumulative-update-takes-5-hours-to-install.aspx

When setting the security category with the option "The Project Owner is a descendant of the user via RBS". The permissions applied to this security category work within PWA and allow the superiors of Project Owners to manage their projects, however the...

I come across an interesting third party problem that I wanted to share with you. One Citrix VM built on WinXP SP3 with IE8 could not open via the internet explorer in the PWA, Project Files with the Project Client. Opening Files from the Project Client...

I wanted to share an issue I came across related to the SharePoint 2013. If you have installed the Office Suite 2010 and Project 2013 installed together on the same machine you will not be able to create a new Office document from the SharePoint document...

The Service Pack 2 baseline has been dropped and SP3 is now required to install Office 2007 updates from this point forward. Why? Please see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle pages for full details. Here’s a quick summary – once a Service...

I came across an issue where the PSI impersonation was not working. I found an interesting Script tool that helped to check the authenticated user. This tool can help in several scenarios where authentication is a problem. Currently the diagnosis...

Before you begin, here are some reasons for applying this method: Today, the diversity of the IT team or outsourcing potentially exposes your system to human error. New SharePoint Server or Project Server is infrequent and easily generates...

Configure NTP on your windows 2008 R2 Server might help in this situation. If the clock / time is different on the Project Server and the SQL server. If the time difference is 1 min on the SQL server. The job will sit in the queue for 1 min till it gets...

Following the performance trend I was thinking to blog some of the best practices for the Project Server. Some old issues related to the Olap Cube performance are related to the SQL Server flag. After enabling this flags I've seen improvements from...

Let's say that you notice a bad performance on the Project Server during 9AM-12AM Timeframe but since it's the production environment you cannot to much troubleshooting during that period.You have a service window but in that timeframe you have no user...

Generic Resources are usually used for planning purposes when you don't know for sure which resource can handle your task at a certain date. You have the possibility to assign a Skill set (AD, SQL, Networking) to this generic Resources and to assign this...

I came on my test environment across this problem when trying to install the latest update I've got the error message: "The expected version of the product was not found on the system" this can occur on Project 2007 and 2010. Running the following...

Sometimes it might happen that you run into very random issues and cannot reproduce the problem. This might happen due to the antivirus that is blocking temporary files to scan them and by this it's putting the files also in read only mode and this is...

1) Backup your source databases. Open SQL Server Management Studio and identify the five required databases (Archive, Draft, Published, Reporting and Content): Right click on the source databases, and select Tasks > Backup. Save the...

I've noticed that sometimes Exchange Server 2007 integration doesn't integrate seamless as followed on the following technet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee782548.aspx . This could be related to the AD - Exchange Server 2007...

Important reminder for the one that are still using Project Server 2007, as the Product is ending the mainstream support http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=Project+Server+2007&Filter=FilterNO Take into...

The behaviour that is seen is that the project file is opened for a fraction of a second and closed, in the lower tab in the Project Pro client is displayed "closing project name" The issue cannot be reproduced but it could occur when a ressource is been...

From the August Cumulative Update onwards you will have to install sp1. For mor details on this please check Brians Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2012/07/18/project-server-2010-from-august-2012-cumulative-update-onwards-you-will-also...

I've noticed a strange behaviour on my environment that is occuring randomly after installing April CU or later. The issue is related to periodical job that Sharepoint is triggering and for some reason sometimes is timing out and the Project Services...

Generally if you encounter problems with your Project Server Business Intelligence on the Project Server 2010 server check out also Brian's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/09/16/project-server-2010-business-intelligence-center-common...

I have encounterd some issue when regional settings is set to german, for the Project Client. Basically the list separator for the german language is ";" (could be for other languages as well) instead of "," and when someone tries to add ressources...

Sometimes Sharepoint and Project are installed with a AD User instead of a system account and it happens that the password for the user expires after X days due to a AD Policy. The best way to avoid this is to follow the following Technet article:...

As some options has retired from Project 2003 there are still ways to create WBS Diagrams in Project 2007 and Project 2010. The best solution is to use the Addin Created specially for Visio 2007/2010 You can find them only for English, German, French...

When trying to save a new project to the PWA the job fails with the following error message: "failed and blocking correlation" with the details: ActiveCacheQueuedMessageExecutionError (12005) GeneralQueueJobFailed (26000) and fails at 40% and in...

First upgrade to at least SP1 the project client because the Sync with task list has been upgraded in SP1 See: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project/archive/2011/05/18/project-2010-sp1-enhancements-to-sync-to-sharepoint-task-list.aspx Second, add the...