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I had a client who wanted to change the SQL server used in a SharePoint farm.  We did so using a SQL Alias and a named instance for SQL Server.  The next few screenshots prove it out. Our original server was MPNTPRJ10A. server moving to is MPNTPRJ10B, and we want to use a named instance […]

We recently announced a hosted, packaged Project Server solution and it begs the question, when would a company use a hosted solution versus an in-house solution?  We have found when talking to clients that some require a customized implementation and configuration because they have multiple legacy systems and large, complex projects. Other, companies need a […]

Hi There! At a client of mine recently they wanted to have site level backups created on a nightly basis.  I decided to use PowerShell and Windows Task Scheduler to perform this tasks.  Creating the PowerShell scripts was easy enough, see below: First set execution policy Set-ExecutionPolicy “Unrestricted” Next, add the PowerShell snapin for SharePoint […]

  If you have ever run into a situation where you or someone changed the permissions of your only Administrator account in Project Server to something less permissive, then you will find the queries below helpful.  You would first need to run a query to find out the security group ID of your Administrators security […]

I have mentioned before that Microsoft Project Server replaced Primavara at Shire (we'll be talking about this at the Microsoft Project Conference in March with Shire) and think a few of the outcomes are particularly interesting.  First, after the change they are able to rank projects for selection by strategic objective and then further use […]

I recently had a client in a situation where they started a delegate session as another user, however, that other user was not assigned to any security groups within Project Web App.  Obviously this caused an issue as the user could no longer access PWA.  Simply logging in as another use and delete the delegate […]