Carl's Project Server Space: Archive

Very important note around timephased actual... →

Dec 16th

Problem Provisioning PWA Site after SP1 →

Sep 21st

Shiny-shiny →

Sep 10th

Timesheet solutions in project server 2010 - #1...

This is my first outing into a full blown stand-alone timesheet solution. Yes, I’ve done the full bottom-up and top-down configurations before but never JUST timesheets. The aim of this solution is to - minimise the administrative overheads associated to running an EPM solution - minimise “Project Owner” involvement in the process and thus minimise MS Project Pro licence...

Sep 6th

Failure to Provision (nooooooo)

Strange events today, and I am a little lost right now. Sometime over the last two weeks (probably since my VM was switched from one machine to another), site provisioning has failed on my VM. In this scenario I am creating a new PWA site called Bibblywibbly. I want this to be a brand new site with clean DBs. This fails because of mismatching DBs but if i look back through the logs i see: -...

Sep 2nd

New Job, New Demo Machine and BI tomfoolery

So today is my first day in my new role, working for TPG - The Project Group as an EPM Consultant in the UK. Exciting time for me. The new demo rig is now running pretty smoothly, having overcome some of the teething problems with an SSD based machine. I know this is relatively new tech but come on, isn’t it about time this stuff was just - you know - easier! this is the 21st century...

Aug 24th

Rejuvenate

It’s time to resurrect my tumblr blog. This will now become my primary project server bloglet. Tumblr rules

Jun 30th

Site Collection wont delete (orphaned record) -... →

Sep 17th

Problem In the Project Centre you wish to show the status of your “Gateway” events that are held as Milestones in the project plans to provide a Milestone Summary view. However there is no out of the box solution to doing this. The Approach Firstly you need a Task Level Custom Field that links to a lookup table that defines your milestones. For Example: Field Name = C3_Milestone...

Sep 10th

SQL 2008 analysis services for mops2007 Well we sorted it It’s a bank holiday today but here’s the route we took Installed SQL 2005 components from dec2005 feature pack on app server Native client Bacwards compatibility note: xmo not installed due to SQL 2008 reporting services addon for sharepoint wouldn’t let it Installed the following bits on app server to get things working SQL 2008 native...

Sep 10th

Quick description: We installed PWA, OWC and SQL AS 10.0 OLE DB Provider for a client install for Project Server 2007. Everything was hunkydory except, navigating to the Data Analysis page stated we needed to install Office Web Components. For some reason the web part wasn’t recognising that this was already installed. Hang on… thought we had… We reinstalled/ repaired / hopped up and down alot....

Sep 10th

Project Web Access - Data Analysis (OWC) Web Part...

Quick description: We installed PWA, OWC and SQL AS 10.0 OLE DB Provider for a client install for Project Server 2007. Everything was hunkydory except, navigating to the Data Analysis page stated we needed to install Office Web Components. For some reason the web part wasn’t recognising that this was already installed. Hang on… thought we had… We reinstalled/ repaired /...

Sep 2nd

SQL 2008 analysis services for mops2007

Well we sorted it It’s a bank holiday today but here’s the route we took Installed SQL 2005 components from dec2005 feature pack on app server Native client Bacwards compatibility note: xmo not installed due to SQL 2008 reporting services addon for sharepoint wouldn’t let it Installed the following bits on app server to get things working SQL 2008 native client Xmo...

May 31st

Update: so we are getting the “cannot connect to repository” error. Having rummaged around I have just seen reference to the need for SQL 2008 Native Client install also… gonna check this out next So, i am seriously stuck on something… hopeing to work this through today but thought I would share: Consider…. Server Architecture: Server 1 : DB server SQL 2008 /...

May 26th

Project Server 2007 ActiveX Component Can't Create...

Update: we got to the end of step one with the generic native client error (cannot connect) but think the native client was installed without subfeatures and sdk…so going around again… Original post So, i am seriously stuck on something… hopeing to work this through today but thought I would share: Consider…. Server Architecture: Server 1 : DB server SQL 2008 / AS2008 /...

May 26th

2010 Day 1

Day 1 of my 2010 build… lets see how we get along!

Apr 14th

Project Server Blog

Just to introduce myself, I am a Project Server specialist working in the UK, and am just finally getting around to writing a blog… so bear with it its a work in progress. I will start putting up some IP onto the blog in a little while. if you have any thoughts on topics do let me know

Sep 27th