Microsoft has released a new cumluative update for Project 2007 and Project Server 2007. dated August 25, 2009. Information on the key elements is linked below. See Microsoft’s guidance on deploying cumulative updates for more information on how to deploy these updates if they’re applicable to you. The links below include both descriptions and download links so you can see if fixes you require are included in this cumulative update. Office 2007 Cumulative Update for…
Migrating to the latest version of Project Server would seem like a no-brainer but the decision involves many factors. With support for Project Server 2003 now ended many clients are weighing their options. Here are some of the factors you’ll need to consider
The Microsof Office Project Support blog is reporting an issue that has appeared for users of Project Server 2007, Service Pack 2 and its connectivity to Project Professional when trying to update the Enterprise Global settings. There is a fix in the pipeline which should see the light of day in August which we will report to you here. There is both a description of the problem and Microsoft’s suggested workaround. Description: The problem and…
News out of Microsoft today that we’ve already seen here with at least one client. It seems that upgrading your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) or Microsoft Project Server environments to SP2 results in your SharePoint environment being converted back into a Trial version. If not changed back, you may see a message saying that “the trial edition will expire in October 2009” or to some other date or even “trial edition has expired”. The…
Systems: Planning for Project 2010 We’ve received and will continue to receive information from Microsoft on the upcoming release of Project and Project Server 2010. For those who are making plans to migrate to Project 2010 or who plan to deploy Project 2010, some of this information will enable you to make long term strategic or technical plans. Read more…
Microsoft has released an update to Project and Project Server 2007. The “April 2009 Cumulative Update (CU). Includes a number of changes that didn’t make it into Service Pack 2 which we’ve mentioned here previously. The links on our Project and Project Server Updates page include descriptions of what has been fixed in this update, instructions on how to apply the fixes and some best practices on how to deal with updates when they’re released. …
Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Project and Project Server. There are a number of components of the upgrade and we’ve put all the links on our Microsoft Project System Updates page. There are a wide range of improvements from Service Pack 1. If you’ve been updating each month with the monthly updates we post here, you’ll have a lot of them already but some of the improvements include: Project Standard and Project…
Over the years, one of the most challenging changes to the success of project management software has been the lack of training and training materials that are included in any deployment. I wrote about this time ago in an article entitled “Batteries not included”. Organizations used to allocate a portion of their implementation budget to training and, as the price of project management software has dropped to a fraction of it used to cost in…
I was asked lately how to find the great reports and dashboards that Microsoft shows in its sales demonstrations. Happily, Microsoft makes those example files available online for anyone who has Project Server 2007. The reports are based on Microsoft SQL Reporting Services which has a wide range of reporting functionality. You could, for example, create reports which are scheduled to leave the report file in a particular area and then automatically send an email…
Here are some recently added compiled help format (CHM) files containing downloadable documentation for SharePoint, Office and Project Server. · SharePoint 2007 Technical Library in Help format · Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technical Library in Help format · Office 2007 Resource Kit in Help format · Microsoft Project Server 2007 Technical Library in Help format After downloading the files, you may need to right click the file in Explorer, select Properties, and then Unblock the file in…