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Microsoft Project Server is Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management solution. The server solution provides capabilities for project, portfolio, and resource management and greatly expands the capabilities of the MS Project desktop tool alone.

 Want to get an overview of Microsoft Project Online and Microsoft Project Servers capabilities? Then watch this video! We’ll cover all the basics from the role of the Executive to that of a Team Member. You will see views across all projects looking at KPI graphical indicators which are staples in many Microsoft PPM […]

We were dealing with this issue today when attempting to save a rather large project schedule.  The project would create the getting queued message in the queue them immediately fail.  We knew that meant the information from the Project Client was not reaching to the Server. That made us think that issue is related to […]

Recently had a customer that was receiving an error when attempting to save a project.  The project had in excess of 5000 lines.  Project Professional produced the rather vague error you see below. The error that showed up in the queue was equally useless Fortunately the ULS logs was more helpful.  Without increasing the verbosity […]

I was receiving this error at a customer site recently.  They had no workflows setup in the system, although they did have all the necessary objects installed to deploy Project Server workflows.  In order to get around this issue I deployed a stateless workflow.  Steps are outlined below: Queue:◦GeneralQueueJobFailed (26000) - WorkflowCheckinNotify.ProjectCheckinNotifyWorkflowMessage. Details: id='26000' name='GeneralQueueJobFailed' […]

Encountered this issue.  The error message received by the Project Manager is not sufficient to troubleshoot.  Grab the message in the queue.  it’s the last message in this post.  The exact issue is highlighted in yellow.  Someone removed the Category field from the Risks list.  We simply added the field back and the error was […]

Before you migrate make sure you have completed the following: 1. Published all resource plans. Resource plans must be published or they will not migrate even if they have been saved. Remember, publishing the project does not publish the resource plan and the publish option on a resource plan will be greyed out until the […]

One of the reports we’re frequently asked to create is a Milestones Report. Sometimes these are part of a project-by-project Status Report. Sometimes they are part of a portfolio report, where we might want to see the significant activities across all our projects.  The following tips can be used in any situation that involves reporting […]

Many of our clients have taken advantage of the workflow capabilities in Project Server and Project Online. Two of the biggest reasons to do this: Tracking approval for governance transparency Being able to see, at any time, where the project is in its progress Item 2 is getting a lot of attention these days. With […]

Most of the reports I create have a time element… Which client used the most project hours last year? ….. How many hours are my QA people scheduled to work next month?  Without that time framework, the information is less valuable. Time phased reports do, however, have an unfortunate side. The tables we must use […]

  With Project Server 2013 and Project Online, Microsoft replaced the server-side scheduling engine with the Project Calculation Service (PCS), bringing the power of the Project Professional scheduling engine to the browser. This new service also powered a new cloud-ready Project API, also known as the Client Side Object Model (CSOM). What’s changing? There will […]

We recently ran into an issue attempting a reporting database rebuild for a customer.  We were receiving the customary duplicate key insert errors which are staples in requiring a reporting DB rebuild.  Unfortunately when we attempted the rebuild we received the error below.  Although we found an article on Brian Smith’s blog that had some […]

From the Microsoft Ignite conference in May, these are some of the highlights of what we have to look forward to features being added to Project 2016. User interfaceMore fluent user interface if you are familiar with current interface you should find new features easily, and if you are new to Project hopefully features will […]

We just ran into this link for Microsoft Project Server Virtual Conference 2015 on October 22nd. Our team will be participating and we wanted to pass this learning opportunity on to you as well: http://projectvirtualconference.com/   For all your Project Server questions, please contact us.  

We work with many clients using Microsoft Project Online and Microsoft Project Server and often people want to know the differences. Microsoft Project Online and Microsoft Project Server 2013 on-premises are based on the same set of features and functionality, but there are differences between the two. This link provides a table with a very […]

Scenario: You navigate to Project Center and click on the icon to open the project in MS Project Professional and nothing happens. Possible Resolution: Although there may be other causes such as the client and server not being at the same version, a common cause is that the user is not using Internet Explorer. Happy […]

Working on a Project Site in Project Server 2013 or Project Online can be extremely frustrating when it’s time to navigate back to the project center or the PWA home page. From other pages, if you click on the logo in the upper left corner it automatically takes you to the PWA home page. This […]

Let me start by saying NEVER delete or edit an out of the box field on a project site for risks or issues in Microsoft Project Server or Microsoft Project Online. Doing so will create issues with syncing and you could see some of the following scenarios: Sync errors showing up the queue related to […]