December 2009 CU - Office - Project Server 2007

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (WSS server-package): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977027

Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (MOSS server-package): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977026

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977022

Description of the Office Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp-x-none.msp, Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977028

Description of the Office Project 2007 hotfix package (Project-x-none.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977266

Project Server 2007 Newly Published Content

Performance tuning lab (white paper)
Friday, May 15, 2009, 10:40:00 AM
This white paper describes an actual performance tuning lab for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, including how the lab was done and what results were achieved.

EPM and Office SharePoint Server 2007 Coexistence: Intranet Scenario (white paper)
Friday, May 15, 2009, 10:40:00 AM
This white paper outlines the recommended setup and configuration approach that will focus on best practices for an EPM-focused Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Intranet farm with a set of validated and tested best practices for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and EPM coexistence. A logical architecture diagram of an EPM-focused Office SharePoint Server 2007 Intranet farm is also provided for reference. The diagram is in Microsoft Visio file format.

Migrate Project Server data from one farm to another
Friday, May 15, 2009, 10:40:00 AM
This article outlines the process of moving Office Project Server 2007 Project Web Access data from one Project Server farm to a new Office Project Server 2007 farm.

Office Project Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Friday, May 15, 2009, 10:40:00 AM
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 May 7, 2009.

Migrate an existing server farm to a 64-bit environment (Project Server 2007)
Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:35:00 PM
This article provides instructions and recommendations for a clean, phased migration of a Office Project Server 2007 farm to servers in a 64-bit environment.

Advantages of 64-bit hardware and software (Project Server 2007)
Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:30:00 PM
This articles describes the advantages of running your Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 farm on a 64-bit Windows server environment.

Create an installation source that includes software updates (Project Server 2007)
Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:30:00 PM
This article describes how to create a slipstream installation source to assist you in adding new servers to your server farm. This is required in server farm deployments, since all your Web and application servers must have the same software update version applied.

TechNet webcast: Maintenance and Monitoring (Office Project Server 2007)
Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:30:00 PM
TechNet webcast for Office Project Server 2007 covering maintenance and monitoring operations.

TechNet webcast: Disaster recovery (Office Project Server 2007)
Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:30:00 PM
TechNet webcast covering Office Project Server 2007 disaster recovery best practices.

TechNet webcast: Deployment into a SharePoint Server 2007 Intranet Farm (Office Project Server 2007)
Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:25:00 PM
TechNet webcast covering the deployment of Office Project Server 2007 into a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 intranet farm.

Downloadable book: Migration for Office Project Server 2007
Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:25:00 PM
Downloadable books contain content from the TechNet technical library, which is revised regularly. The updated book includes the most recent version of this content as of May 2009.

Downloadable book: Planning and architecture for Office Project Server 2007
Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:25:00 PM
Downloadable books contain content from the TechNet technical library, which is revised regularly. The updated book includes the most recent version of this content as of May 2009.

Project Server 2007 SP 2 and Other Newly Published Content

Below are the KB article links:

Project (Standard and Professional) 2007 SP 2 (KB: 953326)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953326

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP 2 (KB: 953338)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338

Office Servers 2007 SP 2 (MOSS and Project Server) (KB: 953334)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334
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Service Pack 2 (SP2) Download Center Page's

Office Project 2007 (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7DF323E-73B8-4344-826A-A01E6F920B1B

Office Project Language Pack
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7DF323E-73B8-4344-826A-A01E6F920B1B

WSS (both x86 and x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B&displaylang=en

WSS Language Pack (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=085E5AC8-58F6-4CF9-8012-33B95EE36C0F&displaylang=en

WSS Language Pack (x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2C2B6CAF-B46D-45EB-AC4D-DEAAA48C3A2C&displaylang=en

Office Servers (x86 and x64) (contains Project Server SP2)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082&displaylang=en

Office Servers Language Pack (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01C6A3E8-E110-4956-903A-AD16284BF223&displaylang=en

Office Servers Language Pack (x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66C5026F-9F47-4642-8378-2526918009FA&displaylang=en

Other Links (Newly Published Content)
http://services.social.microsoft.com/feeds/feed/ProjectServerNewContent

Microsoft Office Project Conference 2009

Microsoft is pleased to announce the 6th annual Microsoft Project Conference being held September 14-17, 2009 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ.

Key Conference Highlights:

• Over 80+ educational sessions in multiple tracks
• Special guest keynote speakers
• 40,000 sq foot exhibit hall filled with Microsoft Partners and Solution Providers
• Many great networking opportunities with other Project Professionals

Microsoft Office Servers Infrastructure Update

July 15, 2008

Microsoft Releases Office Server Update

Overview
The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) includes several new Enterprise Search features for SharePoint Server 2007 and the latest performance updates and fixes for the Microsoft Office Servers listed in the system requirements section below.Key updates for SharePoint Server 2007 include:

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  New Search features such as federated search and a unified search administration dashboard.
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  Several core fixes to Search to improve performance and scale.
  Platform performance improvements and fixes.
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  Several core fixes to the publishing Content Deployment features to improve reliability.

Key updates for Project Server 2007 include:

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  Timesheets and My Tasks stability and usability improvements
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  Queue management user interface improvements
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  Project Server 2003 to Project Server 2007 migration fixes
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  Database performance improvements to enhance the cube building process and Project Professional Save/Publish scenarios
• Key updates for Search Server 2008 and Search Server

• 2008 Express include:
  Platform performance improvements and fixes since RTM

Prerequisites
We strongly recommend that you install 2007 Office servers Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Infrastructure Update before you install this update. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
951695 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951695/) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Infrastructure Update
949583 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949583/) How to obtain the latest service pack for the 2007 Office server products

EPM 2007 – Working with Excel Services and Dashboards

If you have not had the opportunity to work with Excel Services, SQL Reporting Services (SRS) and Dashboards in the new Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution you are REALLY missing out.

In order to work with Excel Services you MUST have MOSS – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installed. For some basic info on Excel Services, please go here.

I recommend using both SRS and Excel Services to create Dashboard views in Project Server.
Here are a couple of snapshots of views created using the Demo Virtual PC (VPC) from Microsoft. *Note these are pictures of one single dashboard with some additional Report Web parts.

The Key Performance Indicator web part above was done by Microsoft folks and is a SRS web part added into the Dashboard.

Bringing these Business Intelligence (BI) technologies together with the other capabilities of the EPM Solution REALLY gives amazing power to the clients. Just remember – Garbage in reaps Garbage out.

In a few future articles I hope to post on the steps to work with EPM and MOSS and the steps to create Excel Services and SRS Dashboard Views.