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.

April 2009 Cumulative Updates for EPM

Project Professional 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969409

This article describes the Microsoft Office Project 2007 issues that are fixed in the Project 2007 hotfix package that is dated April 30, 2009.
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=969409&kbln=en-us

Project Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969957

This article describes the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 issue that are fixed in the Project Server 2007 hotfix package that is dated April 30, 2009.
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=969957&kbln=en-us

WSS 3.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968850

Cumulative update packages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 contain hotfixes for the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 issues that have been fixed since the release of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=968850&kbln=en-us

MOSS 2007 / Office Servers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968859

This article describes the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package that is dated April 30, 2009.
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=968859&kbln=en-us

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.

Create and Use a Team Resource in Project Server 2007

I’ve gotten several questions on creating and using new Team Resources in Project Server 2007 so I wanted to point people to two FAQ that were created:
How To
Create a Team resource
http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared%20Documents/CreateTeamResource.htm
and
How To
Use Team Resources in a project
http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared%20Documents/UseTeamResources.htm

Managing Enterprise Projects Using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

New Book by MSProjectExperts Released:

Managing Enterprise Projects Using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is an unprecedented learning guide and reference for project managers who use the Microsoft EPM platform. Our goal in writing this training/reference manual is to help you build on your knowledge of the stand-alone tool by mastering the enterprise project management environment. Follow our best practices to success and heed our warnings to avoid the pitfalls.
We take a systematic approach to the topical ordering in this book, beginning with a Project Server 2007 overview in Modules 01 and 02. Module 03 teaches you how to use two new features in Project Server 2007, Proposals and Activity Plans. In Modules 04-07, you learn to use Project Professional 2007 to define, plan, baseline, and publish an enterprise project. Modules 08-10, take you through the project updating process from team member progress reporting in Project Web Access and in Outlook, through your acceptance of the updates into the enterprise project plan. Module 11 wraps up with analyzing project variance. In Modules 12-15, you learn how to set up personal options, how to use the features in the Project Workspace, and how to create Status Reports. Modules 16-18 cover viewing enterprise project information and teach you how to use Data Analysis.
Throughout each module, you get a generous amount of Notes, Warnings, and Best Practices. Notes call your attention to important additional information about a subject. Warnings help you avoid the most common problems experienced by others and Best Practices provide tips for using the tool based on our field experience.

Project 2007 SDK Update - April 2007

Click the title of the post to link to the update or click here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2672F6F9-7028-4B30-99A2-18CB1EED1ABE&displaylang=en

So what has changed in the SDK?

Overview

The Microsoft Office Project 2007 SDK is a release for solution providers, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about the new Project Server 2007 platform, and how to extend and integrate Project Server 2007 with other applications for enterprise project management (EPM). It features conceptual and "How to" articles, sample code, and programming references. The download file for the Project 2007 SDK is updated from the RTM SDK download. The pj12ProjectSDK.exe download includes two HTML Help files: PJSDK2007.chm (conceptual topics and managed code reference), and pj12ReportingDB.chm (the Reporting Database Schema reference).

OLAPCubeSchemas.xls is a Microsoft Office Excel file that lists the dimensions, measures, and properties of the 14 Project Server OLAP cubes. Additional references include the default Project Guide files and the XML schemas for Project 2007 and the ChangeXML parameter for Statusing methods in the Project Server Interface (PSI). The Project Portfolio Server 2007 schemas include the AccountData and AccountIndex database references.

For more information, see the Project Portfolio Server 2007 Developer Reference. The download also includes the following complete sample projects that relate to topics in the SDK: ChangeXML Utility, Custom Web Parts, two Impersonation samples, Login Demo, OLP Example, Project Workspace, ProjTool (a tool with source code for testing and development), PSI Extensions, Report Pack, and Test Event Handler. The sample projects use Microsoft Visual C#®and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

The seven Report Pack samples use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.You can also view the Project 2007 SDK online in the MSDN Library.