Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Content Publishing News : TechNet

Newly Published Content!

robert.m.hoover — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:09:00 GMT

After a short publishing hiatus, here is some content that we've been working on:

Deploy Project Server 2007 updates This article provides an overview of available Project Server 2007 updates.

Checklist for deploying Project Server 2007 updates This checklist describes the general sequence in updating a Project Server 2007 farm deployment to the most current update. It also gives references to other articles that provide detailed guidance and procedures for installing various type of Project Server 2007 updates.

Office Project Server 2007 performance counters This technical reference article provides a list of performance indications you can monitor in Project Server 2007.

Inventory of SQL Server databases for a typical Project Server 2007 deployment This technical reference article provides a list of databases that are created in a Project Server 2007 and Portfolio Server 2007 deployment.

Video demo: Using SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services with the Project Server 2007 Cube Building Service This two-part video demonstration walks through the steps necessary to configure the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 cube building services for use with SQL Server Analysis Services 2005.

Walkthrough: Deploy Project Server 2007 to a server farm environment This article contains a white paper and a four-part video series which provide a walkthrough of a typical Office Project Server 2007 deployment. The white paper contains step-by-step instructions for each step necessary to successfully deploy Office Project Server 2007. While the scenario described in the white paper may differ from the deployment scenario that you plan to use for your organization, you can gain significant hands-on experience by following the steps described herein in a test environment.

Virtualizing Project Server 2007 This section includes six topics that explain hyper-v architecture and best practices for planning, installing, and configuring a Project Server 2007 deployment on Hyper-V.

Project Server 2007 webcasts This set of articles describes and links to archived Project Server TechNet Webcasts. Topics include server administration, network communication, workload scenarios and reference architecture, and data flow.

Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007) This article has been updated to provide information regarding client update requirements for cumulative updates that include the Project Server 2007 infrastructure update. It also provides information about cumulative update server packages for Project Server 2007 integrated with Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Deploy the infrastructure update for Office Project Server 2007 This article has been updated to reflect Project 2007 client requirements for the Project Server 2007 infrastructure update.

Deploy Service Pack 1 for Office Project Server 2007 This article has been updated to reflect Project 2007 client requirements for the Project Server 2007 infrastructure update.

Migration best practices for Project Server 2007 This article has been updated to describe the best practice of applying the latest update to the Project Professional 2007 client from which you run the migration tool to ensure that it has the latest updates.

Prepare for migration to Project Server 2007 This article has been updated to describe the best practice of applying the latest update to the Project Professional 2007 client from which you run the migration tool to ensure that it has the latest updates.

Requirements for using SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services with the Project Server 2007 Cube Building Service This article has been updated to refer to the Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 – December 2008. The Analysis Management Objects installed with the SQL Server 2005 Management Objects that were in earlier versions of the SQL Server 2005 Feature pack required a workaround in order for the Cube Building Service to function correctly.

Newly Published Content for December and January

robert.m.hoover — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:52:00 GMT

Back up and restore the Project Server 2007 farm

The articles in this section offer prescriptive guidance and how-to topics dealing with farm level backup and recovery for Project Server using both built-in tools and SQL Server tools.

Migrating a Project Web Access instance (Project Server 2007)

The articles in this section offer prescriptive guidance and how-to information for migrating Project data.

Newly Published Project Server Content 11/08

robert.m.hoover — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:19:00 GMT

Enterprise disaster recovery for Project Server 2007

This series of articles describes procedures and best practices for backing up and restoring Office Project Server 2007 using SQL Server tools.

Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007)

This article describes how to install Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 cumulative updates.

Plan for disaster recovery in Project Server 2007

This series of articles describes best practices for planning a disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. It has been updated to include specific guidance about when to use SQL Server tools and when to use SharePoint Products and Technologies tools.

Planning for fault tolerance and availability in Project Server 2007

This article provides planning guidance for fault tolerance and availability in a Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 deployment.

Cube building process overview

This article describes the process for building OLAP cubes and available cubes. It has been updated to provide further guidance and best practices around using the cubes.

Office Project Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

The entire library for Office Project Server 2007 is now available as a downloadable .chm file. This download includes all content in the library as of November 6 2008. This download will be updated monthly.

Plan for administrative and service accounts (Project Server)

This article describes the accounts required for a Office Project Server 2007 deployment. It has been updated to specify that service accounts require permission to log on interactively on the computers running the service in question.

Deploy Project Server 2007 to a server farm environment

This article describes how to deploy Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 in a farm environment. It has been updated to reflect the fact that SQL Server connections over named pipes are not required for Office Project Server 2007.

New Enterprise Project Management Virtual Lab!

robert.m.hoover — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:21:00 GMT

The very first EPM-related VirtualLab was recently released! A hosted Virtual Machine accessible to everyone via WEB is free to use with only registration being required.

Available via Project Server TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/projectserver/. Direct link to the Lab is here.

The lab content:

Exercise 1: Using built-in capability of Analysis Services in the EPM deployment
Exercise 2: Using Excel Services to Visualize Project Data
Exercise 3: Using Performance Point Server for advanced data visualization
Exercise 4: Using SQL Reporting Services Project Report Pack to Analyze Project Data
Exercise 5: Creating a SharePoint Dashboard to Display Project KPIs
Exercise 6: Using Visio 2007 to Visualize Project Data

Abstract: This lab will make you understand how to leverage the portfolio of Microsoft business intelligence tools and solutions applied, but not limited to, Enterprise Project Management (EPM) data. This lab will make you discover how to leverage Excel Services, PerformancePoint Server, SQL Reporting Services 2005, Visio 2007 as well as SharePoint Server 2007 Dashboard and Project KPIs to provide full-feature solutions to solve your customers’ requirements.

Microsoft Project Server 2007 IT Professional TechNet Webcast Series

robert.m.hoover — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:30:00 GMT

I just wanted to pass on word that starting October 1^st, 2008, Michael Jordan (Lead Architect – MCS EPM Global Practice | WW COE for EPM) will present a series of Project Server 2007 webcast on TechNet targeted at IT Professionals.

These 60 minutes webcasts will present in details key aspects to consider when you evaluate, plan, deploy, and operate Project Server 2007 specifically:

· Solution Overview and System Elements

· Solution Elements and Data Flow

· Workload Scenarios and Reference Architecture

· Network Communication

· Server Administration

· Maintenance and Monitoring

· Deployment into a SharePoint Server Intranet Farm

· Disaster Recovery

· Virtualization

You need to register for the free of charge webcast by clicking the link; then you get emailed a link to sign on and participate in the web cast on its date and time (please note only the first two webcast are available for registration at this stage).

Each TechNet webcast is recorded for later viewing which should be through the same registration URL.

For a listing of all EPM webcasts on TechNet check the following: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/epm.aspx

Webcast Title

Abstract

Date

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 - Solution Overview and System Elements

In this webcast, we introduce the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 solution and the main product components. We describe key concepts such as high availability and scalability, which should be taken into account when planning and deploying Project Server 2007. This introductory webcast is part of a webcast series targeted at IT professionals. In the series, we present in detail key aspects to consider when you evaluate, plan, deploy, and operate Project Server 2007. We discuss the main considerations when planning for high-availability deployments—when to scale up and out, points of failure, and software/hardware boundaries.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008