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Note: This is a repost from Brian Smith’s Blog (thanks Brian).  I found it so helpful I wanted it close by. This follows on from the posting on the structure of the Business Intelligence Center in Project Server 2010 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/08/24/project-server-2010-business-intelligence-center-behind-the-scenes.aspx and covers a few of the possible errors you might run in to. For […]

  When saving a project offline from Project Server 2010, I get the following errors when I try to open the schedule offline: "The copy of this project in the Local Project Cache may be damaged. Try the operation again. If the problem persists, some possible options to try include: use a backup copy of […]

In this case resetting the target applications via Set Credentials resolved my issue.  Sometimes the simplest route should be taken first.

Once you have your farm configured for SQL Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode, the next step is to create a document library that you will upload the .rdl files.  Do so as follows:   From within the Business Intelligence center in Project Server 2010   Navigate Site Actions –> View All Site Content   […]

  I will not go into what w3wp.exe is used for as there are many posts online on the topic.  I am only sharing my experience.  I have a client that makes heavy use of SharePoint 2010, with numerous web applications, each with it’s own application pool.  My concern was the memory use of the […]

  Recently a client of mine would receive this error when attempting to search within a SharePoint site collection.  This partcular issue was a bit more involved than I had originally expected.  Reason being, when I went to manage the configuration of the Service Application I received a error message stating there was an error […]

In this case I had a previously working Excel Services report in the Sample Reports folder of Project Server 2010.  I hadn’t accessed any of the reports in a few weeks, and when I did, I received the “Unable to process the request” error message.  In this particular instance I thought I’d try the simple […]

Good Morning,One of my clients came across an issue with (only) one of their SharePoint servers recently when applying the Project Server (August 2011) hotfix.  The error involved the hung SharePoint Search Service.  These steps are originally referenced in a Project Server Programming through PSI blog posting and found on the ProjectServerBlogs.  Thanks to those […]

At a client recently we needed to add a user from a trusted domain.  Each time we tried, however, we received an error stating: The resource could not be saved due to the following reasons: The NT account specified is invalid.  Check the spelling of the user name, verify that a valid domain was included… […]

Agreed, that this is not the most helpful error message.  The queue error message that I received via email was slightly helpful.  After hours of research I was able to isolate a date field causing the issue.  The bigger issue was, however, that this was a sporadic issue that happened with several projects.  Spending hours […]

I found the procedure in which to do this a bit counter intuitive.  Or at least not very memorable.  I thought therefore I’d document the procedure.   Launch Project Professional and connect to your Project Server environment Open a project from Project Server Navigate File –> Manage Accounts –> Work Offline   Navigate File –> […]

Recently after performing a 2003 to 2010 upgrade, users were having issues saving baselines.  Attempting to do so produced the error below: I noticed the Save Protected Baseline checkbox for the category permissions was unchecked.  Protected baselines are 0-5.  (see below). Once I checked this checkbox I was able to save a baseline.

Good Afternoon Folks,There are several tips and tricks that we all learn from using the tool and some that are right in front of us that we miss.Over the years, I have collected several.  Here are two (2) very quick tips that will save you time with Microsoft Project 2010. 1) Use the Quick Access […]

Error as follows when attempting to access server settings: Error While Reading Global Permissions: System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized.    at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)    at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)    at Qpm.JustOnce.ServerCore.Psi.Security.Security.ReadGlobalPermissions()    at Qpm.JustOnce.ServerCore.AdminSettings.AdminSettingsCore.GetManageJOSettingsPermissionUid()    at Qpm.OneTime.SharePoint.Install.JOSettingsLink.<>c__DisplayClass5.<Page_Load>b__1()    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.CodeToRunElevatedWrapper(Object state)    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.<>c__DisplayClass4.<RunWithElevatedPrivileges>b__2() […]

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Good Morning Folks, Thanks to a few of my peers a discussion was started on LinkedIn which prompted me to add the following link for those that are looking for other ways to learn the new Project 2010 Ribbon. In additional to my blog posting back in July 2010 this link is helpful for those […]

Recently I was working on an engagement where I had created an OLAP based report for Project Server 2010 and wanted to save it to the Sample Reports folder so it would open in an Internet Browser window.  Creating the report was simple enough, as was saving it to that folder.  When attempting to run […]

Have you noticed task names disappearing from your schedules in Project Server 2010?  Well according to Microsoft, they have found a repro and it appears related to multi level undo.  They are working on a fix and (no promises) hope to get this in the next client side Cumulative Update in August.  For now if […]