Talk Amongst Yourselves

Artigo
01/22/2007

I've been getting a lot of email lately with some great questions. Rather than attempting to answer individually, I thought it best to give you a forum to ask these questions.

So, to facilitate knowledge sharing, please post your questions as a comment to this post. Assuming it is information we can discuss publicly, we'll give you answers. Also, we can all benefit from the knowledge gained in this dialog.

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Anonymous
January 22, 2007
-in the "WSS to MOSS Migration" post you say "As you should install MOSS prior to installing Project Server, you'll want to first upgrade your existing WSS content to MOSS." -can you please review this question and let me know if you have any advice, I have posted all over newsgroups but not getting anything, I am burying myself in documentation but am not finding these two core questions answered QUESTION we are bringing in a new MS Project Server 2007 solution, a.) what are the benefits of running Sharepoint Server 2007 versus Sharepoint Services in an MS Project Server solution b.) can we bring in Sharepoint Server 2007 later and expect it to upgrade Sharepoint Services or are we hurting ourselves by not bringing in Sharepoint Server at the beginning, any thoughts or experience on this would be appreciated
Anonymous
January 22, 2007
Hi, I currently have a copy of Project Professional 2007 and I would like to try Project Server 2007. Is there any way I can obtain an evaluation copy of Project Server 2007? I've looked all over Microsoft's site with no success. Thanks, Sean
Anonymous
January 22, 2007
-we are a consultant and just getting started with Project 2007 in the lab, we will want to manage projects for multiple clients and give client staff access to PWA sites, does anyone have thoughts if a.) all Project Workspaces should exist under a single PWA or if b.) a PWA should be created for each customer's projects, we want to have the ability for our staff to access all projects, be resources on all projects, search all customer projects, and hopefully be assigned different costs from one client's project to another (may be $50 and hour for one but $75 and hour for another) for budgeting -I just don't know if it is a requirement for us to create seperate PWA sites for each customer in order to achieve this level of seperation, are there enough mechanisms in a single PWA site (Groups and Categories for example) to get the job done or are we best creating a PWA site for each of our customers -I like the idea of our staff all only having one PWA site to work from regardless of which of our customers projects they are assigned to, does anyone have thoughts
Anonymous
January 22, 2007
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Anonymous
January 22, 2007
You need to create separate workspaces per project. We don't have an option to change this. I don't see any reason why you couldn't run with one PWA site. There's nothing in what you describe that says you shouldn't. The only reason to create separate sites is if you wanted the customer to access the site
Anonymous
January 22, 2007
Re: Trial Server The current ETA for a downloadable trial on the Office download center (using a trial key) is February. If you are an MSDN subscriber, it's in your December kit and you can try it today!
Anonymous
January 22, 2007
When Microsoft is going to release the service pack for MSP 2007? we are dealing with a lot of bugs...mainly in the lookup tables & check in issues:

Lookup tables mixed up values
Unknown errors message in lookup table
Check in problems Do you familiar with these kind of problems?

Anonymous
January 22, 2007
Carmit, Unfortunately, we cannot discuss items such as to SP plans in this forum. However, I would HIGHLY recommend that you report your issues to our Product Support team. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we track all issues and use this for SP planning. Feel free to provide more specifics around the issues you are facing.
Anonymous
January 23, 2007
We're evaluating PS2007 and have run into at least one important workflow issue. We'd like to allow anyone to create a task "request" and then be able to "promote" that task to the actual project planning file. One method might be to create a workspace task, and then transfer the task to the project DB; however, there doesn't appear to be much integration between a workspace and the associated project planning DB. If we have to go re-enter the task, we lose the history, have to replicate attachments and notes, etc. Are we missing the obvious (or not so obvious) way to make this happen? Thanks much!
Anonymous
January 24, 2007
I'd like to have project drive my client billing. To do this I need to be able to assign mulitiple rates to resources (people). One task might be at $100.00 per hour while another type of task might be $150.00 per hour. If I could then pull a report that would list tasks and hours spend on those tasks by resource/task rate I can use that information to bill clients. How is this accomplished? If I can't get Project/Project server to do it then I have to have my developers input their time spent into Project and a third party software. I'd like to avoid that! Thanks!
Anonymous
January 25, 2007
One of the powerful features of PWA in 2003 was the simplicity of the process by which resources could enter their time. On the one "Tasks" page, they could enter project time and administrative time, and they could enter actual work plus remaining work for project assignments. This simplicity was important because team members were often resistant to the time entry process, and it needed to be easy. The separation of timesheets from task entry in 2007 seems to have made the process considerably more complex for team members. I see that information can be transferred bi-directionally, but this still makes for a cumbersome worklflow. My questions, therefore, are:

What is the simplest recommended workflow for team members who have both project work and administrative work?
Is there a simple, "one-stop" process available for these resources?
What is the recommended method for entering actual work by day and remaining work on a task, for project work?
It appears that "remaining work" is not available on either view. Can it be added to the timesheet? If we modify the tasks view to add it, does it behave the same way that it did in 2003?
What happened to grouping by project, and all of the "filter/group/search" capabilities? I would be very interested in hearing about everyone's experience with these features. Thanks

Anonymous
January 26, 2007
We are currently having a problem with Assignment Owners. When a material resource has been given an assignment and an Assignment Owner is set for it, the Assignment Owner gets an error logging into thier PWA My Tasks page. Delete the material resource from the task and the user (Assignment Owner) can now access thier My Tasks page normally. Is there security or other settings we may be missing? Do we need an RBS to make Assignment Ownership work? Is there a guide or postings that explain more about Assignment Owners? Thanks
Anonymous
January 26, 2007
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Anonymous
January 26, 2007
-I have read that if I create a Site Collection List it will write to its own database, share navigation bar and breadcrumb bar, content types, workflows, security groups, lookup fields across lists, search scope) -now under the Web Application and Site Collection List for the default instance of PWA I can create Sites and Site Collections but not to their own databases and other segration, so when I read the benefits seperate content to other Site Collections in Project 2007 does that translate to creating another PWA instance
Anonymous
January 28, 2007
To: Tony Scribner: You can assign up to five different rates per resource using cost rate tables. In a resource view, double click on the name, click the Costs tab on the resource information dialog, then click on any of the five cost rate table tabs (A-E) and set each rate. Then in a usage view, insert the Cost Rate Table column and set the rate table for each assignment.
Anonymous
January 29, 2007
To HIrvine, are the assignment owners who are getting this error a part of the project team that the material resource assignments are coming from? IE. Bob is the assignment owner for bricks. Bricks are used in ProjectX. Is Bob a part of ProjectX's team?
Anonymous
January 29, 2007
Is it possible to: A.) Delete project from within PWA without having MS Project 2006? B.) Add the description field to the project or see the description of the project that you entered when you first proposed the project? I need people to see what the project are about in PWA otherwise it is pretty much pointless for many thing. C.) Is there a free trial of Project 2007 Pro anywhere? Please HELP! Urgent as I am setting up the site as we speak. Thank you! Regards, Mattlab
Anonymous
January 30, 2007
Also how would I go about deleting project from the site?
Anonymous
January 31, 2007
I have heard that in Project 2007 we will be able to structure the project calendar to match our accounting calendar months. I have looked everywhere and can not find confirmation of this. This would be a tremendous enhancement for those of us that incorporate schedules and actual costs into an earned value system. Thanks, Neilin
Anonymous
January 31, 2007
I've just been setting up MOSS and Project Server 2007 in a 2 server Farm and have discovered some descrepancies with the instructions posted on the Technical Website. I'm using the latest Deployment Guide and have discovered some conflicting security instructions (Pg 49) "Start the Office SharePoint Server Search Service" item 8. Farm Search Service Account must be member of Admins Group and Farm Admins Group (WSS_Admin_WPG) Those found in the Plan for Administrative and Service Accounts (MOSS) Standard Account Requirements - SSP Accounts. Office SharePoint Server Search Account must NOT be a member of Farm Admins Group. Which is it??? Also, MOSS Deployment... (Pg 52) When creating a web application to host the SSP and create the SSP. The My Sites site collection web application - Is this where we want a PWA site to be created later or do we want a 3rd web application? Wait there's more... When installing Project Server on the MOSS server (since it's only a 2 server Farm) I used The Deployment Guide for Project Server 2007 - Install Project Server on Application Servers. (Pg 113) Configure Farm Services - instructs you to Stop the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application. If you do this then When you come to Provision Project Server to the Farm you can't access the SSP Administration Site. Should this be started or not? One last question... Later in the year our AD Forest is being migrated into our parent company's. Are there going to be tools to change all the service accounts, can this be done through SharePoint Administration?
Anonymous
February 01, 2007
Is there any way to add the Task ID field to any of the My Tasks views (e.g. My Assignments)?
Anonymous
February 01, 2007
Michael Steinberg said: > One of the powerful features of PWA in 2003 was the simplicity of the process by which resources could enter their time. On the one "Tasks" page, they could enter project time and administrative time, and they could enter actual work plus remaining work for project assignments... [Points regarding the importance of this and changes in 2007 deleted.]...

What is the simplest recommended workflow for team members who have both project work and administrative work?
Is there a simple, "one-stop" process available for these resources? < End quote I don't have any answers, but I wanted to chime in regarding the importance of your concerns. We are a MS partner and expect to upgrade a decent number of clients to 2007 this year. The issues that Michael brings up look like they are going to be the big thorn in our upgrades. Time entry was already dreaded, but looks to have gotten more complicated and require more steps than previously. Our clients are very aware that this affects every user of the system and would like to see this get easier.

Anonymous
February 05, 2007
We are using MSP 2003 within the company. For our bid work, what I would like to do is to set up a schedule with several costed options. In other words be able to select from a series of task options and MSP would only sum up those I had selected. At the moment I either have to put all the options in one schedule in which case the summary tasks are wrong, or just set up a series of separate, unlinked schedules. Anybody else tried this? Thanks.
Anonymous
February 08, 2007
Hello, Being a newbie to EPM so please forgive me. Just wondering how do you create departmental security so only the people who belong to specific departments can view the available resources. thx in advance.
Anonymous
February 11, 2007
Jeremy, On selecting different combinations of tasks to calculate different costed options... Have you tried using custom flag fields to identify the different tasks that make up an option - one flag field = one option? Then use a custom cost field for each of the options with a formula that tests the flag and copies the task cost into the custom cost field. That should give you 10 cost options corresponding to the 10 custom cost fields. And you can specify that thecost fields should sum up so that the summary level costs for those fields should be accurate. Graham
Anonymous
February 14, 2007
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Anonymous
February 22, 2007
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Anonymous
March 12, 2007
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Anonymous
March 13, 2007
Cesar, there are many resources for installation on Technet and a few on MSDN. Try starting here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/65b96c9d-67e1-4e5b-9119-62f7ff6b83861033.mspx?mfr=true The best guide I have found for installing Project Server 2007 is either the "Deploy Project Server 2007 to a server farm environment" technet doc: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5892547e-7c7d-4a7f-b4ea-22822df3acb11033.mspx?mfr=true or the blog entries by Tony Zink: http://www.pptspaces.com/msprojectreporterblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=cea5da16%2D0c29%2D40a7%2D845e%2D4eea7cbc844d&ID=31 If you are installing Project Server 2007 for the first time, I would plan on installing it at least twice to get up to speed. First follow Tony Zink's instructions in a stand alone environment. There you won't need to worry about security as much. Once you've got that installation working, then install with domain service accounts and minimal priveleges, which will probably cause a new set of challenges. -j
Anonymous
March 13, 2007
Raj said: > Just wondering how do you create departmental security so only the people who belong to specific departments can view the available resources. < Raj, Explore the RBS (Resource Breakdown Structure) of Project Server. This resource field integrates with Project Server security. -jbf
Anonymous
March 14, 2007
I would also like to add my voice to the timesheet issue. We need to have this as elegant as possible to minimize the change control issues when deploying. Has anyone yet come up with a way to report an ETC on the assignment level within the timesheet interface?
Anonymous
April 06, 2007
has anyone successfully install the Microsoft Office project 2007 trial? The installer hangs on every machine I've tried loading it on, causes explorer to crash.
Anonymous
April 22, 2007
i had install project server 2007 and publish the project succeed,under PWA environment,only the owner can find his task from 'my tasks',others can find their task from resource assignment,but can't find its in 'my tasks',why?????
Anonymous
April 24, 2007
I've posted this in the newsgroup too, but nobody wanted to respond :) Anyways, we have a Project Server 2007 machine, and users are running XP or Vista and office professional 2007. We also have two forests that these users can be in. Project Server is in forest A. Users in Forest A running Vista and XP can auth use office pro just fine against the project server. Users in Forest B running XP can also work fine (after we've saved their forest A credentials for the PWA site and installed the CA certificate since it's a private CA). Users in Forest B running Vista always get the "Bad certificate (CERT_REV_FAILED)(ID=0x800a1529)" error in project pro. I've done the same steps as I've done for the XP machine (saved the credentials for PWA and imported the CA Cert). These same users can hit the PWA site fine without any cert errors. Any ideas on how to get this scenario to work? Could project pro be bubbling up the wrong error?
Anonymous
May 07, 2007
Aaron: "I've posted this in the newsgroup too, but nobody wanted to respond :) Anyways, we have a Project Server 2007 machine, and users are running XP or Vista and office professional 2007. We also have two forests that these users can be in. Project Server is in forest A. Users in Forest A running Vista and XP can auth use office pro just fine against the project server. Users in Forest B running XP can also work fine (after we've saved their forest A credentials for the PWA site and installed the CA certificate since it's a private CA). Users in Forest B running Vista always get the "Bad certificate (CERT_REV_FAILED)(ID=0x800a1529)" error in project pro. I've done the same steps as I've done for the XP machine (saved the credentials for PWA and imported the CA Cert). These same users can hit the PWA site fine without any cert errors. Any ideas on how to get this scenario to work? Could project pro be bubbling up the wrong error?" Even within the same forest, I've read that authentication between trusted domains can require a shortcut trust. So, I'm wondering whether it is possible to shortcut a forest trust with an external trust and help in your situation. Also, I've seen security policy differences between trusted domains prevent authentication. The tech's told me that is what the problem was, but would not give me additional information as to the specifics.
Anonymous
May 11, 2007
I have installed PS 2007 many times in our test machine, published projects, integrated with Outlook and we are now tweaking the security. I'm not sure what happened but a couple days ago we stop reciving email notifications for new tasks or status requests and every time we try to Import New Assigment from Outlook we get the following error: Communicating with Server.... and in a separate error message screen appears: SOAP Exception - title The Server was unable to process the last request. All Services look OK and the event viewer has an error with event ID 5000. Has anybody experince this problem and more importantly does anybody know how to fix it. Tahnk You.
Anonymous
May 25, 2007
Two questions:

We're having trouble with creating Activities ("Project Lite" or Web-based scheduling). We're unable to save and publish Activities and keep getting an error that tells us "All required fields are not complete" (or words to that effect). We do have a few required Custom Fields, but we're filling them all in and we can't figure out what is missing. Anyone else seeing this?
We'd like to export a copy of the Reporting Database to let the developers go to work on it. Is there a way to do this through the PWA admin interface, or does it need to be done through SQL? Muchas gracias in advance!

Anonymous
June 13, 2007
Pls. help! I want to update timesheet from outlook, but cells in timesheet tab always are disabled. At the same time I can update percent of work complete on the Task management tab. How to enable day cells from Timesheet tab?
Anonymous
June 13, 2007
Pls. help! I want to update timesheet from outlook, but cells in timesheet tab always are disabled. At the same time I can update percent of work complete on the Task management tab. How to enable day cells from Timesheet tab?
Anonymous
June 16, 2007
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Anonymous
July 12, 2007
hi all, my name is varun and i want to configure MSP Server and Professional 2007 but i m unable to implement it. hence i request you all mail me the documents regarding installing MSP Server and Professional 2007.also send me the configuration of Share Point Server Farm. pls mail me on varun.palija@kalpataru.com regards.
Anonymous
July 24, 2007
I would like to echo comments by others about the timesheet entry process having become burdensome. Michael Steinberg said: > One of the powerful features of PWA in 2003 was the simplicity of the process by which resources could enter their time. On the one "Tasks" page, they could enter project time and administrative time, and they could enter actual work plus remaining work for project assignments... [Points regarding the importance of this and changes in 2007 deleted.]...

What is the simplest recommended workflow for team members who have both project work and administrative work?
Is there a simple, "one-stop" process available for these resources? < End quote jfraser said: I don't have any answers, but I wanted to chime in regarding the importance of your concerns. We are a MS partner and expect to upgrade a decent number of clients to 2007 this year. The issues that Michael brings up look like they are going to be the big thorn in our upgrades. Time entry was already dreaded, but looks to have gotten more complicated and require more steps than previously. Our clients are very aware that this affects every user of the system and would like to see this get easier.

Anonymous
October 23, 2007
I need help getting my downloaded 180-day trial of Project Professional (ProjectProfessional.img) to open. I'm being told it is not a valid IMG file. What might I be doing wrong?
Anonymous
December 11, 2007
Currently we are using project server 2007. On PWA the current date format is MM/dd/yyyy. I would like to change this to dd MMM yyyy, which is our company standard. How could this be done? Assistance is appreciated
Anonymous
January 10, 2008
We just recently installed Vista on a few machines including mine. Now when trying to submit a status report in MS Project Server, it won't let me! Others with Vista have experienced the same thing. It works fine on XP. anyone else experience this? any work arounds or setting changes we need to do in Vista to make it work? thanks.
Anonymous
January 10, 2008
> We just recently installed Vista on a few machines including mine. Now when trying to submit a status report in MS Project Server, it won't let me! Others with Vista have experienced the same thing. It works fine on XP. What version of Project? When you say it won't let you what do you mean?
Anonymous
January 10, 2008
> hence i request you all mail me the documents regarding installing MSP Server and Professional 2007.also send me the configuration of Share Point Server Farm. There is already documentation up online. There is no non-released documentation available
Anonymous
February 24, 2008
QUESTION I want to tailor the Project Documents template in PWS so that it automatically has the folder structure we want to use for our project folders. I would also like to populate the template with some sample and template documents if that is possible. I have searched through Google and the various support site but cannot see how to do this (or even whether it can be done). Has anyone done this, and if so can you please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Ian
Anonymous
April 11, 2008
We have installed Project Pro 2007 on our Win XP systems and are currently having problems. I have installed through the custom tab selecting to "Run all from my system". The users have admin rights to the Pc and have rebooted. The issue is that it keeps trying to reinstall producing the progress bar. This should be a simple problem to fix, but we have ran out of ideas. Could any of you think of a solution to this re-occurring install?
Anonymous
April 09, 2009
Cesar Cruz had a problem with the Outlook Syncrhonization: I had a similar issue. For some Enterprise Resource Custom field(s) the solved it. I could identify the fields with following statements: select * from dbo.MSP_CUSTOM_FIELDS where MD_PROP_ROLLDOWN_TO_ASSN = 1 and select * from dbo.MSP_PROJECT_CUSTOM_FIELDS where MD_PROP_ROLLDOWN_TO_ASSN = 1 I also found this on Microsoft’s web site. The timesheet PSI can break the Outlook add-in if resource custom field roll-downs are turned on When you view task assignments in Project Web Access or in the Microsoft Office Outlook add-in, you may receive one of the following error messages: dataset constraint violation SOAP Exception: The Server was unable to process the last request. This issue may occur if a resource has multiple assignments and if an enterprise resource custom field has the Calculation for Assignment Rows option set to Roll down, unless manually specified.
Anonymous
August 10, 2009
Hi, I am new to project server 2007 and i am learning the PSI feature of project server 2007. Every time i try to call the LoginWindows service that is in the PWA, i get this error logged in the event log PSI Auth: SiteId 08389655-3fb7-4df7-84c7-04af4a186f7a was not found in the ProjectSiteCollection for this SSP I am not able to understand what could be the possible reason for this error.

I used a local account to install project server in my VPC.
This account is the local admin, admin on the PWA, admin on the SSP.
All the applcation pools run under this identity.
This user is able to log into the PWA through IE.
This user is able to browse all the webservices through IE. I do nto have a clue as to what the problem could be. Please help

Anonymous
December 29, 2009
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