A customer asked me today if he could make changes to the Reporting database in his Project Server 2010 environment. The short answer is, yes, you can create entities in the Reporting database. Below is a scrubbed version of the conversation. Customer...

The following MPUG article by Kenneth Steiness is a good introduction to the basics of baselining. A baseline is a snapshot of your project at a point in time and you can create up to 11 of them. Baselines provide a benchmark to compare against and also...

Until I can figure out who to cross post between the Project Server PFE Team Blog and my own blog, I will double post. My customer wanted to be able to provide his Portfolio Managers with read only access to all project sites in PWA. Because an AD...

Today, I learned about a PowerShell script that is already part of some of the diagnostic tools I use in my day to day work and I just didn't know it was in there. It's freely available online so I wanted to share. You can go to http://spsfarmreport...

My favorite ULS logging PowerShell command is described here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607721.aspx. The Merge-SPLOgFile cmdlet pulls trace log entries from all farm computers into a single log file on the local computer and it works...