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This falls under SharePoint upgrade but I have seen clients creating sites using Fabulous 40 templates in the same database where PWA resides and it breaks the Microsoft Project server 2013 upgrade. So, run below command to verify if Fab 40 templates are installed in Project Server 2007 environment or not: stsadm -o enumtemplates > […]

In one of our customers environment multiple users were getting below error while accessing their timesheets. Error: The view failed to load. Press OK to reload this view with the default settings. Press Cancel to select another view. We tried re-creating the Timesheet after deleting it and got below error. It turned out to be […]

I came across an interesting issue after my recent migration from Microsoft Project Server 2007 to Microsoft Project Server 2013. The migration was successful with a few errors that were due to the missing custom solutions. When I went to Project Center, Resource Center and Timesheet page after migration, the ribbon was disabled. I was […]

Microsoft is making it easier for SharePoint administrators to manage control within their environment.  SharePoint Online now allows you to: Choose between a Simple or Advanced SharePoint Online admin user experience. Control which Office 365 top navigation items your users see. Block SharePoint 2013 workflows from being used from your environment. Please note that this […]

Recently, I migrated the Microsoft Project Server 2013 databases from production environment to newly created development environment. I used the database attached method and it went well, however I was unable to open the Projects from Project Center and was getting below error message. Error in IE window: “Sorry, something went wrong” The ULS log […]

When you embark on an upgrade project from Microsoft Project Server 2007 to Microsoft Project Server 2013, you have this article from Microsoft as far as environment specification goes. However, I have realized that there is a need for a separate article that elaborates on upgrade specifications. One of the MUST items that I discovered […]

It can be confusing trying to figure out the new Product set from Microsoft.  What should I choose? Office 365? Azure? SharePoint Online? etc…   I wanted to focus on the benefits of Azure and I found an article on the MSDN blogs.    Why choose Azure? Here four reasons that are broken down in this […]

I have seen this error for couple of customers recently. The Approval Page does not load and gives below error message. Error: One or more categories of approval could not be loaded. In both the cases, I found below error in ULS log. ULS Error ============================ PSI: System.ArgumentException: Value was either too large or too […]

Recently I worked on one of the issues where PWA Administrator was not able access the PWA and was getting below error. The last thing he did was start a Delegation session to act as one of his team member. We were able to login as another user by using the the URL as http://servername/pwa/_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true. […]

Just created a checklist to help in deciding if one should install stand-alone mode Microsoft Project Server 2013 or not. You get a choice at the time of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 install to either do a complete install or stand-alone install. Here I am focusing on the later option. stand-alone mode install is quicker and […]

We wanted to configure Analysis Services and OLAP functionality to use a different instance of SQL Server than Project server database server because it was a stand alone install of Project server. So, SQL Server Analysis Service was running on the remote Database server. and it was NOT running on the local Project server Database […]

I just ran into this strange behavior after upgrading Microsoft Project server from 2007 to 2013. After the upgrade a team member was able to log time against a task, it was sent to his manager for approval, his manager approved his time, but time was never visible in project. So, ‘Actual work’ remained zero […]

I recently built a stand-alone project server 2013 farm by installing SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013 with SP1. I ran the PSConfig.exe to finish the process.  When I tried to browse the PWA after all of the above, I ran into below error: Derived method 'RequiresWebPartClientScript' in type 'Microsoft.Office.Project.PWA.WebParts.PWAPart' from assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.PWA, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, […]

One of our customers were getting below error while editing Project Site Page. Below are the steps to reproduce the issue. Open the Project Site Click on Page >> Edit page Error Error:An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily close Web Parts […]

I installed stand alone instance of SharePoint 2013 on Widows Server 2012 datacenter – server. Install went fine with no issues. This install automatically installs SQL server 2008 R2 express with Service pack 1. Hard limit of 10 GB Next task was to restore a DB from another server which was 18 GB in size. […]

Recently one of our clients applied SP2 for SharePoint and Project Server 2010 and ran into issues while running SharePoint 2010 Configuration Wizard. The SharePoint Configuration Wizard was failing at step 2 with below error. The log file didn’t have much useful error information and were showing only below exception. “An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException […]

Recently, I worked on the issue where user were getting below error message while adding existing task to his Timesheet. Error: Sorry, something went wrong   Ran the SQL profiler trace and was unable to find any SQL exception. That means issue is not at database level, but may be at Web Service Level. A […]

An explanation of how Generic Resources factor in to Resource Analysis in Project Server: When Generic Resources are used in a Resource Plan or Project Plan and that plan IS INCLUDED in the analysis, Project Server will count the generic requirements in its calculations. When Generic Resources are assigned to a Project Plan that is […]