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Good Morning Folks,We are having another successful Project Manager training on Project Server 2010 and a few questions were brought up as current ‘issues’ that new Project 2010 users were experiencing. Before I share the solution – both of these were options that the new Project 2010 user ‘unchecked’ or did not know where to […]

Thanks to Chris Boyd for starting the thread and writing the code to display the Project Guide (that was contained in Project 2007). His code can be found below.  Thank you Chris – very helpful for those on Project 2010. The full link is:  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project_programmability/archive/2010/04/30/getting-the-project-guided-to-show-up-in-project-2010.aspx  The first step is to write a method that turns […]

  I had just finished an install and was attempting to access Excel Services and received the above message.  I found this solution on office forums, which did indeed work in my case.   1. Open the office application (in my case Excel) 2. Select File 3. Select Options 4. select trust center 5. select […]

  Hey Folks, I do this so often I thought I’d write myself a quick step-by-step rapid install for PS2010.  My next install related post will be reporting on a powershell script based install.  Enjoy! Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Connect to domain Install proper server roles Application Server Web Server Install SQL 2008 R2, […]

  I received this error recently and did some research, only to find out it was because there was a previous installation of the component.  I uninstalled the component, then reinstalled successfully.  I would have expected the common “I higher version was found” message, but did not.

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('productversion'), SERVERPROPERTY ('productlevel'), SERVERPROPERTY ('edition')   SQL Server 2008 10.0.1600.22RTMEnterprise Edition   SQL Server 2005 9.00.1399.06RTMEnterprise Edition

  The location of the RDP client will be different based on your version of windows.  With Windows XP, you would navigate Start –> Programs –> Communications.  With Windows Vista or Windows 7, it’s found in Start –> All Programs –> Accessories.  The icon looks like this: When accessed, you should see something like the […]

  I recently had a client who had both projects missing from the cube that should have been there, and projects that had been previously deleted still showing up in the cube.  A query against the Reporting database did show the deleted projects were still there, although they were not in the Published database.  Thinking […]

reposted from Christophe Fiessinger’s blog In addition what is written here, I’ll add my experience.  Prior to reading this article, I performed the steps as I knew them outlines in items 1-3 below.  I never had to do step 4 as the template was always activated.  The issue I was encountering is that although in […]

Hello all you that are or know Project Managers out there.  Remember to grab a drink, have a cake, or just mention “Happy Project Manager Day” on November 4, 2010. Cheers to all you Project Managers out there.

  Hello, I was writing a SQL query that was joining data on the workspace URL between MSP_EpmProject_UserView and the WSS Content database URL.  Since the collations of the databases were different I received the collation error mentioned in the title in this post.  Fortunately with some research I was able to resolve the issue […]

We had another successful delivered MPUG.  Thank you all that submitted feedback, accolades, and questions.  We answered many questions during the Q&A session online however we had a few more.  Please see below and feel free to submit your comments or any other questions that you may have.Enjoy,Jacques Question:  Can you wrap text in Project […]

Thank you Microsoft for releasing this information. Hello Project Community,The October 2010 Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Project and Project Server 2007 and 2010 has been released.http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectadministration/archive/2010/10/27/microsoft-project-server-and-sharepoint-2007-and-2010-october-cu-2010-are-live.aspx Microsoft is recommending opening a support ticket at http://support.microsoft.com if you run into any problems with the installation. There will be a webcast delivered by Brian Smith and Adrian […]

Hot off the press (published October 20th) MSFT moves to Leader in Forrester BI Wave. “Microsoft closed some of the previous gaps with acquisitions of data quality and MDM technologies, and now leverages SharePoint success and ubiquity as a critical component of a BI platform.”  And moves up to LEADER. Read the full report at: […]

Another Successful Certificate Program delivered. We received several e-mails and thank you from the MPUG Certification session that I delivered yesterday.  Some of you asked when the recording would be available.  It is now located on the MPUG Global site.  You can find the recording here.As always – let us know if there is a […]

Recently I delivered a few MPUG Certification Series webcasts and a few of those that attended have reached out to me on subject matter outside of what we covered in those webcasts.  I wanted to share those questions with the user community.  So here you go.  Thanks to all and keep your questions coming.Enjoy.-Jacques Details […]

Folks we are have been there when working with Project 2010.  There comes a time when you need to save as your project as 2007 for other users/peers to view your project.  Or you receive a Project 2007 file and save it as Project 2010.  There are some task features in Project 2010 that are […]

Many thanks to Christophe and the Microsoft team for passing along this helpful link.  If you are interested in Project 2010 Updates and information you are going to want to bookmark this site.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/projectserver/gg176680.aspx Enjoy,