tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89288667562538934302024-03-19T15:32:07.826+04:00All about Enterprise Project Management (EPM)Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-35919006762940183972016-03-22T19:39:00.002+04:002016-05-10T04:10:21.607+04:00#SharePoint and #ProjectServer 2016 RTM is OUT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Project Server 2016, on premises, Released to Manufacturing (RTM) version is released last week.</div>
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Project Server is fully integrated within same SharePoint installer, and once SharePoint installation will be completed, Project Server service application will be available to be used.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Microsoft has also announced that Project Server/SharePoint 2016 will be generally available in Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center in early May 2016.</span></div>
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You can refer to my last blog to follow step by step to stand up SharePoint 2016 farm: <a href="http://khurramjamshed.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/sharepoint-or-projectserver-2016.html">http://khurramjamshed.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/sharepoint-or-projectserver-2016.html</a><br />
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Project Server 2016 RTM to download: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51493">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51493</a><br />
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Language Pack for SharePoint 2016: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51492">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51492</a><br />
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Project Server 2016 tech-net documentation: <a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303399(v=office.16).aspx">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303399(v=office.16).aspx</a><br />
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SharePoint Server 2016 tech-net documentation: <a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422(v=office.16).aspx">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422(v=office.16).aspx</a><br />
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Whats new for Admins in SharePoint 2016: <a href="https://blogs.office.com/2016/03/14/whats-new-for-admins-in-sharepoint-server-2016/">https://blogs.office.com/2016/03/14/whats-new-for-admins-in-sharepoint-server-2016/</a><br />
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Enjoy.</div>
Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-46175767600497839092015-12-19T13:44:00.001+04:002015-12-19T13:44:20.795+04:00#SharePoint or #ProjectServer 2016 Installation - Step By Step<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Beta 2 version is available to explore now, and in this blog post I will walk
through installation steps to help users follow and setup an on-premises
SharePoint server 2016 farm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Note that Project Server service application is now included within a same set of setup files. We don't have to install separate setup files for Project Server, you will find Project Server Service application to choose to configure as part of farm configuration step.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">During the installation process,
I will highlight any new/additional steps or installation screens specific to
SharePoint 2016. Also note that this installation is carried using Beta 2
version, that is 99% feature complete as Microsoft has quoted and must be very
identical to the RTM version coming next year.</span></div>
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Hardware and Software
requirement for SharPoint Server 2016 can be found here: <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.16).aspx">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.16).aspx</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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For testing purposes, I am
preparing a single server farm and I have a separate database server that is
running SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Exactly like SharePoint 2013,
lets start with installation of prerequisites. <o:p></o:p></div>
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required pre- requisites and install on server. Please always refer to this <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.16).aspx">MSDN</a>
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At the end of installation, go through the completion status
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Installing SharePoint Server 2016:<o:p></o:p></h2>
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Choose Install SharePoint server from setup dialog, and
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2 2. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Accept the agreement check-box, and continue:</span></div>
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3. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Choose a file location, if
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5. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">At the end of installation of setup binaries, run the configuration wizard
to complete the configuration and create farm:</span></div>
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7. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Choose </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">create a new server farm</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> to create a new SharePoint 2016
far. Connection to an existing farm option can be used to join new server to an
existing farm.</span></div>
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8. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Define the required
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9 9. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Pass-phrase is important, so
define and save it somewhere to refer later if required. As it would be
required to add another server to scale up your existing farm.</span></div>
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10. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Below screen is part of new
enhancements/change to SharePoint 2016 deployment process. This will let you
choose your server role within a farm, earlier it was all about manually
setting up a required application services based on server role in a farm.</span></div>
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11. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">And the final configuration dialog box let you choose port number for your
Central Admin site:</span></div>
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12. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Configuration summary page:</span></div>
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13. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Below step may take a while
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14. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">At the end of successful
configuration, you will be presented with summary configuration. Click finish
to launch Central Administration website:</span></div>
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15. <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">Once Central
Administration site launched, you can choose wizard to configure services</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">16. </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Another change to
SharePoint 2016 deployment process is that Project Server is now part of same
SharePoint installation as service application.</span></div>
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Project Server always was an application
service in SharePoint, but previous versions requires separate set of setup
files to be installed to enable Project Server application service in existing
SharePoint farm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-15363955654238096032015-12-04T04:27:00.002+04:002015-12-04T04:27:46.332+04:00Great new #Enhancements to #ProjectOnline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is to quickly share about 3 excellent new enhancements to Project Online rolled out today.<br />
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1. <b>Email Notification</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Email notifications in Project Online keep you on top of what’s coming, let you know when things are due and what’s currently on your plate.</span></span><br />
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This feature is available from today.<br />
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2. <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; line-height: 1.5;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Project IDs</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.8182px;">This was much awaited!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.8182px;">Until today I have to use JS or other solutions, in order to generate unique ID for each project.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.8182px;">This is now going to be available as OOB option, and can be configured as part of the Enterprise Project Type (EPT) settings. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each EPT has its own project ID definition. You can specify a fixed Pre- and Postfix, Starting Number and Minimum Digit Padding. The project ID can be added to a number of views throughout PWA and in custom reports. It can also be programmatically updated using CSOM.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Note, that this feature is still in final touches mode, and yet to be released.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: inherit;">3.</span><span style="font-family: SegoeUI, 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Increasing custom field limits for reporting</span></h3>
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This enhancement is simply <b>overwhelming.</b> </div>
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Reporting from Project Online was an issue with prior limitation of 45 custom fields.</div>
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With this new enhancement introduced, increased new limits on <b>ALL </b>custom field types are:</div>
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Complete details are available here: <a href="https://blogs.office.com/2015/12/03/3-new-enhancements-to-project-online/">https://blogs.office.com/2015/12/03/3-new-enhancements-to-project-online/</a></div>
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Life is getting better with Project Online :)</div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-19531797035405863332015-11-27T17:00:00.000+04:002015-11-27T17:00:07.209+04:00#Project Online and #ProjectServer - Reporting Enhancements<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #1f4e79;">Reporting is an integral factor to
any successful PPM deployment, and Microsoft is continuously investing in
reporting capabilities, making it bigger and better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79;">In this blog post, I will bring together
few recent updates to reporting options that can help get the best out of
Project (online and on-premises) data, and will share links to all the sources
available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79;">SQL Server Reporting Services
are amazing, it enables you to create interactive, tabular, and graphical or
free form reports from relational, multidimensional, or XML-based data sources.
SSRS is the most powerful tool to surface data on to reports till date, from
simplest to highly complex reports, SSRS is your tool.</span></div>
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related to SSRS devotees, Microsoft has recently announced about the number of
enhancements to Reporting Services in SQL Server 2016.</span></div>
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is already available for some time now, and Microsoft SQL team has released
number of new Reporting services features to preview version:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Reporting Services report items - Including charts, gauge panels, maps, and
images - to Power BI dashboards. Dashboard tiles always show up-to-date data
thanks to scheduled refresh. Click a dashboard tile to drill through to the
complete Reporting Services report.</span></div>
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reports using Visual Studio 2015 with an updated version of SQL Server Data
Tools.</span></div>
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.NET Framework 4.x code in report expressions, report code, referenced
assemblies, and extensions for report security, data processing, rendering, or
delivery.</span></div>
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report parameters the way you want : I am quite excited about this particular
enhancement, for the first time ever, you see the Parameters pane in Design
view, handing you, the report author, design-time control of parameter
positioning:</span></div>
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reports to PowerPoint</span></div>
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Treemap and Sunburst charts</span></div>
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reports in an updated version of Report Builder with a modern theme</span></div>
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and interact with reports in modern browsers (thanks to a new HTML5-based
renderer)</span></div>
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reports from modern browsers (without installing an ActiveX control)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79;">Below is the summary of all the
information published till date:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79;">Power BI is around for some time
now<b>, Microsoft Power BI</b> is a collection of online services and
features that enables you to find and visualize data, share discoveries, and
collaborate in intuitive new ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79;">In new Power BI experience,
Power BI displays dashboards on the Power BI service that are interactive, and
can be created and updated from many different data sources. Based on the same
technology as Power View, Power BI Desktop supports existing Power View reports
and provides the future path to a HTML5 based interactive report experience
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<span style="color: #1f4e79;">Lately Power BI team has
introduced a Power BI pack for Project online users. The Project Online content
pack for </span><a href="http://www.powerbi.com/?WT.mc_id=Blog_ProjectOnline"><span style="color: #1f4e79; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Power BI</span></a><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> allows you to explore your project data with
out-of-box metrics such overdue projects or a burn-down of current project work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79;">You can read complete details
here: </span><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/11/18/explore-and-monitor-your-project-online-data-in-power-bi.aspx"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Explore and Monitor your Project Online data in Power BI</span></b></a><b><span style="background: white; color: #424242; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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mentioned above, Pin to Dashboard, we can now pin any existing Project chart to
Power BI dashboard very easily. This help an end user in particular, to quickly
put together a nice dashboard using several existing SSRS reports without
seeking support from technical wizards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2, this also includes Project Server 2016 Beta 2 binaries
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available as a service just like other SharePoint services.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogs.office.com/2015/11/18/announcing-sharepoint-server-2016-beta-2-and-project-server-2016-beta-2/">Link</a><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Explore SharePoint
Server 2016 Beta 2<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261970(v=office.16).aspx">Link</a><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Explore Project
Server 2016 Beta 2</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/cc197697(v=office.16).aspx"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Link</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-48387381865786547082015-08-27T17:33:00.003+04:002015-08-28T03:49:35.958+04:00Announcing Availability of #SharePoint and #ProjectServer 2016 Preview versions #ProjectServer2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.45pt;">And finally the
wait is over, and we have the preview version of SharePoint 2016 On-Premises and
Project Server 2016 On-Premises available to explore. I am excited to share the
news of availability of preview versions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SharePoint Server and Project Server 2016 IT Previews only provides a first look at a select set of new changes, and moving forward with future preview releases, Microsoft will continue to add new capabilities.</span></span><br />
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<span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis"><a href="https://blogs.office.com/2015/08/24/announcing-availability-of-sharepoint-server-2016-it-preview-and-cloud-hybrid-search/"><span style="font-size: large;">Announcing availability of SharePoint Server 2016 IT
Preview and cloud hybrid search</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During last few
months, we have been talking about it. Microsoft has introduced/demonstrated some
exciting new features, and improvements to the products during last few months.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally it’s the time
to explore those capabilities. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a first steps
towards my journey to explore Project Server 2016 and SharePoint 2016, I am sharing
important links about the release. And in next coming days I will be sharing first
hand details about SharePoint and Project Server 2016 features and
improvements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SharePoint 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Project Server 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Download
SharePoint Server 2016 Preview, this also includes Project Server 2016 binaries
as an improvement to the current deployment process. Project Server will be available
as a service just like other SharePoint services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48712">Link</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SharePoint Server
2016 IT Preview Quick Start Guide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48714">Link</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SharePoint Server
2016, and Project Server 2016 IT Preview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422(v=office.16).aspx">Link</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303399(v=office.16).aspx">Link</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New and improved
features in SharePoint Server 2016 and Project Server 2016 IT Preview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What's new for IT
pros in Project Server 2016 Preview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What's deprecated
or removed from SharePoint Server 2016, and Project Server IT Preview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Known Issues in
SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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All of these products are available in desktop and office 365
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I have shared the links to download/install preview of Office
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<b>Installation of Project 2016</b></div>
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Prior to installing Project 2016, same goes for Office 2016,
you need to uninstall 2013 version of the same product as they both can’t stay together.
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Anyone can uninstall, and then install the new version,
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This wouldn’t be as simple as it sounds like if you also ever
have installed Project 2013 office 365 version on your machine along with
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At least in my case, I have tried every possible way of removing
2013 version, but Project 2016 was kept crashing soon after it starts. <a href="https://techjourney.net/office-2016-preview-applications-crash-and-close-despite-repair/?linkId=14594652">Here</a>,
and may be few other places, have described a solution to an issue but it never
worked for me and eventually I end up installing to a fresh VM that has no traces
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This is not just an
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Not only this helps you list down all the commands close to
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In past I have seen requirement of having interactive
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-42756466982032129292015-05-23T18:40:00.003+04:002015-05-23T18:47:30.072+04:00#Office #Project And #Visio 2016 Preview Available<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is to spread the word, with great excitement, that Project 2016 preview version is now available for trial use.<br />
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If you do not have required Office 365 subscription to try Project or Visio 2016, you can download using below links and trial product keys:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">product key: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">N46MP-733KG-T8MR9-VV9JX-HCFG4</span></div>
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<li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=613655" target="_blank">Project 32 bit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=613658" target="_blank">Project 64 bit</a></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">product key: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">W9WC2-JN9W2-H4CBV-24QR7-M4HB8</span></div>
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<li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=613659" target="_blank">Visio 32 bit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=613660" target="_blank">Visio 64 bit</a></li>
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Few weeks back, at Ignite 2015, preview version of Office 2016 was announced. You can browse <a href="https://products.office.com/en-us/office-2016-preview" target="_blank">here </a>to download Office 2016 desktop version for trial. Or if you have an Office 365 subscription, home or enterprise, you can find details <a href="https://products.office.com/en-us/office-2016-preview" target="_blank">here </a>to download new version.<br />
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-2477144903430356192015-05-21T19:21:00.004+04:002015-05-21T19:21:41.109+04:00#Microsoft #Ignite 2015 Wrap up #ProjectServer #SharePoint 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So the week of MS Ignite is over, and there is whole lot of information to absorb.<br />
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I had been closely following to all the happenings and announcements, and in this post i will summarize my take away of information related to SharePoint and Project Server.<br />
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So Microsoft has confirmed, that <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.165599822998px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SharePoint Server 2016 (and Project Server) will become generally available in second quarter of 2016, with a public beta planned for last quarter of 2015. </span></span></div>
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Following were the announcements in Ignite related to Project Server 2016:</div>
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Resource management functionality is a major gap in current PPM version. </div>
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There isn't any proper mechanism in current PPM solution, that can allow Resource Manager to control allocation of resource to Projects. And Project Managers to formally request to block required resource for certain period of time to ensure availability of resource.</div>
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You can find this feature demonstrated during Ignite session: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.9;"><b><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3117" target="_blank">IT Project and Portfolio Management in the Cloud</a></b></span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 0.9;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Multiple Timelines in project professional, so instead of one you can now create multiple timelines in Project Pro 2016 and then later use it in your presentation or share through an email.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 0.9;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Visualizing Resource Capacity using Heat Map.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 0.9;">Project Server 2016 would 'literally' be available as a service in SharePoint 2016. So no need to install any </span><span style="line-height: 13.0909080505371px;">separate</span><span style="line-height: 0.9;"> binaries for Project Server. </span><span style="line-height: 13.0909080505371px;">Separate</span><span style="line-height: 0.9;"> license would be required though to enable Project Server service.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">PWA database would be merged to SharePoint content db, so there will only be one database for each PWA instance and the schema for PWA would be<span style="background-color: white;"> "<span style="color: #292f33; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">pjrep -". means less Admin work.</span></span></span></li>
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Any improvements to SharePoint architecture would definitely leverage Project Server performance as well. There were quite few announcements been made related to SP 2016, such as:</div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;">Role Name</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;">Description</span></strong></div>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="172"><span style="color: #666666;"><strong>Special Load</strong></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="607"><span style="color: #666666;">Reserved for services to be isolated from other services, I.e. 3rd party, PerformancePoint, etc.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="172"><span style="color: #666666;"><strong>Web Front End</strong></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="607"><span style="color: #666666;">Services end user requests, optimized for low latency.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="172"><span style="color: #666666;"><strong>Single Server Farm</strong></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="607"><span style="color: #666666;">Provisions all services on the server for a single server deployment. This role is provided for evaluation and development purposes.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="172"><span style="color: #666666;"><strong>Search</strong></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="607"><span style="color: #666666;">Reserved for Search services.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="172"><span style="color: #666666;"><strong>Application</strong></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="607"><span style="color: #666666;">Services the backend jobs or the requests triggered by backend jobs, optimized for high throughput.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="172"><span style="color: #666666;"><strong>Distributed Cache</strong></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top" width="607"><span style="color: #666666;">Services distributed cache for the farm. Optionally, the server assigned to this role can load balance end user requests among the web front ends.</span></td></tr>
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<li>for<b> implementation and deployment</b>, <span style="font-family: inherit;">SharePoint 2016 requires Windows Server 2012 R2 or
Windows Server 10 for the OS and SQL Server 2014 SP1 x64 or SQL Server vNext
x64</span></li>
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you will find detailed hardware and software requirements of SharePoint 2016 here: </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2015/05/12/what-s-new-in-sharepoint-server-2016-installation-and-deployment.aspx" target="_blank">What’s new in SharePoint Server 2016 Installation and Deployment</a></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>zero down time</b> to build patches with SharePoint 2016,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Delve </b>people profile will be part of SharePoint 2016. If i understood correctly, then it would be first released for SharePoint online, and then may later be pushed to On-Premises version</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">There is so much more that its difficult to consolidate everything in one post. So i will keep on writing about new stuff to be released later this year. For those who are interested to catch up Ignite sessions, please browse <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015" target="_blank">Channel 9</a> for your favorite sessions and watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please also register for this great upcoming webinar , will be presented by my colleagues, to find out first hand information and opinions about all the happenings during 5 days of Ignite sessions.</span></div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-69957795842321718462015-04-24T03:15:00.000+04:002015-04-24T03:32:40.290+04:00Remove Gap between WebParts #ProjectServer #PDP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In Project Server/Project Online world, we deal with Project Detail Pages (PDPs) all the time to place custom fields using Basic info web-part.<br />
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There is often a need a when we have to drop more than one basic info web-part to a same page to group similar fields. I usually do this when i have to put similar fields under one group heading.<br />
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When you add custom fields to the page using more than few webparts, following potential issues can occur:<br />
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<li>Due to an extra padding automatically included by default for each webpart. You will observe a noticeable gap between each webpart on same page. And OOB configuration of webpart doesn't have any way to reduce this gap. So in some cases, it may become unacceptable for customer. </li>
<li>Dropping custom fields on same page using several Basic info webparts can also cause alignment issue between custom fields. </li>
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Below image depicts both issues:<br />
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And here comes an easy solution to reduce the gap between webparts, add the below css to PDP using content editor webpart, and it will reduce spacing to 0:<br />
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<code class="css plain"><style type=</code><code class="css string">"text/css"</code><code class="css plain">></code></div>
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<code class="css spaces"> </code><code class="css plain">.ms-webpartPage-root {</code></div>
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<code class="css spaces"> </code><code class="css keyword">border-spacing</code><code class="css plain">: </code><code class="css value">0px</code> <code class="css color3">!important</code><code class="css plain">;</code></div>
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<code class="css spaces"> </code><code class="css keyword">margin</code><code class="css plain">: </code><code class="css value">0px</code> <code class="css color3">!important</code><code class="css plain">;</code></div>
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For alignment of custom fields, use below JavaScript through content editor webpart on the page:<br />
(you can use width value to adjust width of page according to your need)<br />
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript"> <br />
$( document ).ready(function() {<br />
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$("tr td.ms-formlabel").width("500px");<br />
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}) <br />
</script><br/><br />
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(source of above JavaScript code is from Martin Laukkanen's <a href="http://nearbaseline.com/blog/2014/06/correcting-ther-alignment-of-pdp-web-parts/" target="_blank">blog</a>)<br />
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Lets witness the magic now:<br />
<b>Before: After: </b><br />
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until next time.</div>
Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-57023943203270755682015-03-20T08:45:00.002+04:002015-05-24T16:26:06.501+04:00#Microsoft Ignite #Project Sessions #ProjectServer #SharePoint<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Updated 24/05: </span></b>Updated all the below topics with Channel 9 recording links.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This
year's most talked about event is Microsoft Ignite 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Unlike previous
times, when Microsoft used to host separate conferences to showcase different
technologies during different times of the year. This time Microsoft </span><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">will be
hosting an inaugural, unified Microsoft commercial technology conference the
week of May 4, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This can give
attendees an opportunity to explore<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>broader
range of learning opportunities across all of Microsoft’s technologies,
including actionable best practices from industry experts.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Being someone with Project and Project Server passionate/specialist/learner/consultant
etc. etc. I have extracted Project related topics from that huge sessions catalog which Microsoft
is updating every day with new content. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There would be 8 sessions focusing on Project Server, Project Online
and Project by some known industry experts. To all the PPM relevant
audiences out there, this is something you can look for from MS Ignite 2015.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #404040;">1. </span><b><span style="background: white;">Microsoft's Vision and Roadmap for Work, Project, and
Portfolio Management</span></b><span style="background: white;"> </span></h2>
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<a href="http://ignite.microsoft.com/speaker/speakermoreinfo/?speakerid=e89a4f45-38b6-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #2e74b5; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Brett Brewer</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><a href="http://ignite.microsoft.com/speaker/speakermoreinfo/?speakerid=7bdedd10-32b6-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #2e74b5; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Howard Crow</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"> and </span><span style="color: #2e74b5; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://ignite.microsoft.com/speaker/speakermoreinfo/?speakerid=0cf24bf6-31b6-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Sajan Parihar</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Session focus on sharing Microsoft
vision for work, project, and portfolio management and provide insights into
our future product investments.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Target Audience: C-level</span></div>
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<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2136" style="color: #0066dd; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK21</span></a></h1>
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<b><span style="background: white;">2. Microsoft Project Pro for Office 365:
An Overview<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://ignite.microsoft.com/speaker/speakermoreinfo/?speakerid=8ba452d4-31b6-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7"><span style="color: #2e74b5; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Eli Sheldon</span></a></span> and <a href="http://ignite.microsoft.com/speaker/speakermoreinfo/?speakerid=14ef9423-e4bd-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7"><span style="color: #2e74b5; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Heather Heide</span></a></div>
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<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Session to showcase features available in Microsoft Project so you can
impress your boss, deliver your projects on-time and under-budget, and be the
envy of all your co-workers.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Target Audience: IT Generalist<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0066dd; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.165599822998px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2162" style="color: #0066dd; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.165599822998px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2</a></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white;">3. IT Project and Portfolio Management in
the Cloud<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jean Donati, Krishna
Mamidipaka and Mike McLean<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">This session will highlight end-to-end Project Portfolio Management
using Project Online and Project Pro for Office 365.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Target Audience: C-Level, IT Generalist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3117" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.165599822998px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK31</span></a></div>
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<b><span style="background: white;">4. Developer to Developer: Meeting Custom
Needs with Microsoft Project<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Aesha Shah, Dan
MacDonald and Eli Sheldon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Session about the App Marketplace, CSOM API, remote event receivers, and
a little bit about workflow. Making the transition to Project Online may be
easier than you realize.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Target Audience: Developers, Technical Consultants<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3120" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.165599822998px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK31</span></a></div>
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<b><span style="background: white;">5. Real World Reports: Business
Intelligence in Microsoft Project Online and Project Server 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Allan Rocha, Andrew
Lavinsky and Mike McLean<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Session focus on BI capabilities of Project online and on-prem versions
to demonstrate how you can create real-time reports and dashboards using tools
such as Microsoft Excel 2013, Excel Services, Microsoft PowerPivot, Power View,
and OData.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Person like me would definitely be looking forward to attend this
session. Another point to consider about this session is its presenters, Allan
and Andrew, both are known names within PPM industry and have track record of
presenting some awesome sessions in past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Target Audience: Developers, Technical Consultants<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />
<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3137" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.165599822998px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3</span></a></div>
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<b><span style="background: white;">6. How to Deploy Microsoft Project:
Online and Server<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">Nadin Merali</span>, <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">Chris Boyd</span> and <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">Sean Li</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">This sessions will take you step-by-step through the deployment process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Good opportunity to learn/re-visit about recommended practices of
deploying solution, especially if it’s a large scale deployment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Target Audience: Implementers, Technical Consultants/Specialists<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0066dd; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.165599822998px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3143" style="color: #0066dd; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.165599822998px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK31</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white;">7. Supporting Microsoft Project Online and
Project Server: Tips and Tricks<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Brian Smith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Learn the tips and tricks for successful troubleshooting of issues both
in Project Online and Project Server. Some of the tools described will be
applicable to Online and on-premises customers, such as client side logging and
web debugging – and also some specific on-premises tools to help understand ULS
logs and database issues. A glimpse of how Microsoft supports the cloud is also
included.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Listen directly from Microsoft support public facing, well known within
PPM community, Brian Smith. A must attended session for technical experts and
support experts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Target Audience: Implementers, Technical Consultants/Specialists<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3146" style="color: #0066dd; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.165599822998px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK31</span></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white;">8. Microsoft Project Online
Customization: Best Practices<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">Chris O'Brien, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">Chris Boyd and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">Alex Matyushenko</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">This session covers best practices that MS have learned in the past two
year of running the service. It discusses how to customize Project Online for
better performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Target Audience: IT Decision makers<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white;"><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3177">http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3177</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">To know about all the sessions, click here: <a href="http://ignite.microsoft.com/Sessions#fbid=MK4okfQ87qT" target="_blank">Microsoft Ignite sessions</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It would definitely be an awesome learning platform, providing the fact that Microsoft is also planning to showcase SharePoint 2016. You can learn about few SharePoint 2016 related sessions here: </span><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2015/02/03/top-3-sessions-to-learn-more-about-sharepoint-server-2016-at-microsoft-ignite.aspx" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25;" target="_blank">Top 3 sessions to learn more about SharePoint Server 2016 at Microsoft Ignite</a></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p>Good luck to all those who are attending.</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p>Until next time.</o:p></span></div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-54737295873362456792015-03-20T05:20:00.001+04:002015-03-20T05:20:24.268+04:00I am Back.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its been a while that i was away.<br />
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Those who were wondering, if any, about my whereabouts. Its my pleasure to announce that i am alive and rocking :)<br />
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Last year had been a massive year for me, both at personal and professional fronts.<br />
Became a father for 2nd time, and relocated to a different place. It all became a little too overwhelming during past few months, more than i have anticipated, but its all settling down well now.<br />
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So its about time to get back to business. Time to pen down more stuff. Time to reconnect.<br />
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Lets rock & roll.<br />
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-78572339510966242982014-09-23T15:56:00.001+04:002014-09-24T09:17:32.025+04:00Project Server 2013 More Symptoms to Lost Resource Issue #PS2013 #LostResources #ProjectServer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In relation to a famous <b>Lost Resources </b>issue in Project Server 2013, i would like to share few more symptoms that can help you to identify this issue and apply the relative fix. Also the purpose is to feed search engines with more relevant data to help us lead to right direction.<br />
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By the way if anyone has already applied April 2014 CU, or planning to apply, then note that the fix for this issue is available as part of this April 2014 CU. But the fix will not solve any existing affected projects, and you need to follow Brian's advise mentioned in his blog (URL available below) to fix it.<br />
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Also more details and immediate fix, in case you are not planning to apply CU, is available here at Brian Smith's blog: <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2014/02/06/project-server-2013-and-project-online-what-happened-to-my-resources.aspx" target="_blank">Blog</a> and <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2933444" target="_blank">Fix</a><br />
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Following are my findings related to the same issue:<br />
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<u>Error on Project Page in PWA:</u><br />
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The general error statement on PWA page is not so helpful :)<br />
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<u>Queue Error:</u><br />
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You will find project stuck in queue with percentage completed less than 100%, and error details would be:<br />
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<li><b>Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Queue.Message:</b><ul>
<li><b>ProjectPublishFailure</b> (23000). Details: id='23000' name='ProjectPublishFailure' uid='187759d1-663f-e411-8b70-0050569b2beb' projectuid='1201772f-00b0-e311-baa9-782bcba8cb82' messagetype='Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.QueueMsg.PublishProjectMessage' messageID='16' stage='' blocking='Block'</li>
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Using JOB ID mentioned, searching <u>ULS Log</u> will help you find below details:<br />
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SqlError: 'Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_MSP_PROJECT_RESOURCES'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'pub.MSP_PROJECT_RESOURCES'. The duplicate key value is (1201772f-00b0-e311-baa9-782bcba8cb82, f34816d9-2fb3-e311-9ecf-0050569b2beb).' Source: '.Net SqlClient Data Provider' Number: 2627 State: 1 Class: 14 Procedure: 'MSP_PUBLISH_PROJECT_RESOURCES_INSERT' LineNumber: 8 Server: 'HQDXB-CPMSQLINS\CEPMSQLDB'<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4ec5b99c-37f6-c0a5-975a-cdbb44e876c8<br />
09/18/2014 23:05:58.52 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Microsoft.Office.Project.Server (0x1470)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>0x1CFC<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Project Server <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Database <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>880j<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>High <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SqlError: 'The statement has been terminated.' Source: '.Net SqlClient Data Provider' Number: 3621 State: 0 Class: 0 Procedure: 'MSP_PUBLISH_PROJECT_RESOURCES_INSERT' LineNumber: 8 Server: 'HQDXB-CPMSQLINS\CEPMSQLDB'<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4ec5b99c-37f6-c0a5-975a-cdbb44e876c8<br />
09/18/2014 23:05:58.52 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Microsoft.Office.Project.Server (0x1470)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>0x1CFC<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Project Server <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Database <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>tzku<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>High <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ConnectionString: 'Data Source=HQDXB-CPMSQLINS\CEPMSQLDB;Initial Catalog=ProjectWebApp;Integrated Security=True;Enlist=False;Pooling=True;Min Pool Size=0;Max Pool Size=100;Connect Timeout=15;Application Name=SharePoint[Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Queuing][2][ProjectWebApp]' Partition: NULL ConnectionState: Open ConnectionTimeout: 15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4ec5b99c-37f6-c0a5-975a-cdbb44e876c8<br />
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-50063739964321093162014-07-30T14:51:00.000+04:002014-07-31T04:26:20.378+04:00#ProjectServer2013 RollUp Formula field Calculation Issue #PS2013 #ProjectServer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OK this post is actually about sharing an issue i came across lately, with the hope to get a fix through any of the coming CUs. And the hope is high, with the recent news of getting scheduled CU more frequently now :)<br />
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Out of lot of improvements we are enjoying with Project Server 2013, one of them is having a scheduling capabilities built within PWA, and now PWA schedule webpart do all the formula processing as well without open/publish the same project from Ms Project. Unlike its predecessor, where any formula field requires MS Project push to get populated, and hence we had dependency to Ms Project even in the presence of web client and it was nightmare sometimes to explain to end user that why they need to buy more Ms Projects licenses to cope up with web based client limitations.<br />
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But recently i found that <u>'Task level number type roll up formula field, if copied to Project level number type formula field - doesnt work'</u> :(<br />
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Now let me try to illustrate above through an example to make it more clearer:<br />
And before i start, note that my server is patched with SP1 (re-released) + Jul 2014 CU.<br />
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1. Create a task level number type field, lets name it: <b>%Weight</b><br />
2. Create a task level number type formula field, with roll up <b>Sum </b>calculation for summary rows:<br />
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Lets name it: <b>%WeightedProgress</b> = <u>([<b>% Complete</b>] * [<b>%Weight</b>]) / 100</u><br />
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Here %complete is a default field, and %Weight is the one we have created at step-1 and will be manually updated by users.<br />
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3. Create a project level number type formula field:<br />
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Lets Name it <b>%ProjectProgress</b> = <b>%WeightedProgress</b><br />
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As you can see, i am only copying data of task level formula field to project level field in order to show the data in project center.<br />
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<u>Using PWA web scheduler:</u><br />
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1. I have entered %Weight for following 2 tasks, %Weighted Progress is 0 for each task because %Complete is 0, and hence at project level roll up value is also 0.<br />
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2. Update %Complete of first task with 50%, and %Weighted Progress will be calculated using formula and became 10 at task level and Project roll up level. Publish project.<br />
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3. Open Project Center and observe % Weighted Progress, its showing 0 which was the task roll up at project level before we have made any changes.<br />
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4. Open project, and update %Complete of 2nd task with 50% and that will change %Weighted Progress value to 25. Publish project.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJxP_19ak_ktO6tiB3JzJlt68kd02H7tgNxyHTJoEqha5HKsywFlI4yWc2G2qTapXQv2EHpxM8tA7y_FWEm6MqLGJTZ6oVnqV83msb99Ga-NJUGJ4uyFaVfK9C1u6UHYEfb5EjZ4Z27g/s1600/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJxP_19ak_ktO6tiB3JzJlt68kd02H7tgNxyHTJoEqha5HKsywFlI4yWc2G2qTapXQv2EHpxM8tA7y_FWEm6MqLGJTZ6oVnqV83msb99Ga-NJUGJ4uyFaVfK9C1u6UHYEfb5EjZ4Z27g/s1600/4.png" height="332" width="640" /></a><br />
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5. Open Project Center, and observe %Weighted Progress, its showing 10 which was the task roll up at project level before we have made change to 2nd task.<br />
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By now you may have learnt that its following a unique pattern while updating project level custom field. That its showing you previous value at project center level once you publish your project, although at Project level it updates at the same time.<br />
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So the first time when at Project level it was 0, in Project Center it was appearing blank.<br />
Second time when at Project level it was 10, in Project Center it was appearing 0.<br />
Third time when at Project level it was 25, in Project Center it was appearing 10.<br />
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Lets update our project plan one more time to assure our conclusion.<br />
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6. Open project, and update %Complete of Task A with 100% and that will change %Weighted Progress value to 35. Publish project.<br />
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7. Open Project Center, and observe %Weighted Progress, its showing 25 which was the task roll up at project level before we have made change to Task A.<br />
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So Fourth time when at Project level it was 35, in Project Center it was appearing 25.<br />
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I hope an issue is clear, now a workaround to this is to open/publish using Ms Project and everything will work like a charm, just like old times (Project Server 2010).<br />
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Though its not workable in my current scenario because not all the end user have Ms Project on their PCs.<br />
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With the hope that we get fix to this issue soon :), see ya next time.<br />
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-66759723642745504332014-04-29T12:00:00.000+04:002014-04-29T12:00:06.110+04:00#ProjectServer and #SharePoint 2013 SP1 re-released #ps2013 #sp2013 #office2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is lot of noise over the web related to Service Pack 1 of MS Office 2013 products, it was released with much of an applaud then deactivated due to issue and then re-released with lot of clarifications :) because in between deactivation and re-release of SP1, April 2014 CU for Project Server and SharePoint 2013 was also released.<br />
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So let me kill all this unnecessary noise with the final announcement that Service Pack 1 is now available to download, and all the clarifications in a nut shell is that <b>Just apply this SP1 to your environment even if you have applied the previously released SP, and also feel free to apply this SP1 if you have April 2014 CU in place. </b> don't forget to run the configuration wizard in the end :)<br />
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Also do not forget that unlike old times, this SP1 is not a roll up package, which mean you should install SharePoint 2013 SP1 + Project Server 2013 SP1 and then run the configuration wizard in the end.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.165599822998047px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Download links for updated SP1:</span></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42548" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">SharePoint Foundation 2013 Service Pack 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42546" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">SharePoint Foundation 2013 Language Pack Service Pack 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42544" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">SharePoint Server 2013 Service Pack 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42543" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">SharePoint Server 2013 Language Pack Service Pack 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42545" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Project Server 2013 Service Pack 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42547" style="background-color: white; color: #0066dd; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Office Web Apps Server 2013 Service Pack 1</a></li>
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For details please see Brian Smith <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2014/04/24/project-server-2013-service-pack-1-and-april-2014-cumulative-update-all-you-need-to-know.aspx" target="_blank">post</a>, you can find details of almost all the queries in your mind on his blog post.<br />
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Also see Stefan Bogner's <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2014/04/22/sp1-for-sharepoint-2013-has-been-rereleased.aspx" target="_blank">post</a> for details related to Service Pack 1 release announcement and clarifications.<br />
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As always try any patches in your test environment prior to apply to production.<br />
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Happy patching :D</div>
Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-44912378366377341062014-04-10T02:20:00.003+04:002014-04-10T10:40:31.905+04:00#Project, #ProjectServer and #SharePoint Server 2013/2010 April 2014 CU available #ps2013 #sp2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is to announce that April 2014 CU of Project, Project Server and SharePoint Server 2013/2010 is out now. The important point to note that April 2014 CU of Project Server 2013 includes the fixes of SP1 as well. Since SP1 is deactivated until further announcement from Microsoft, Apr 2014 CU can do the job for now.<br />
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Also Project Server 2013 CU is not a roll-up package, which means it doesn't includes SharePoint server fixes.<br />
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Test the CU in your test environment first prior to apply to production.<br />
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Project Server 2013 individual Apr 2014 CU: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2863881" style="background-color: white; color: #00749e; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12.110400199890137px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2863881"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2863881</span></a><br />
Project 2013 Apr 2014 CU: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878276" style="background-color: white; color: #00749e; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12.110400199890137px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878276"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878276</span></a><br />
SharePoint Server 2013 Apr 2014 CU:<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2768332" target="_blank"> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2768332</a><br />
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Project Server 2010 individual Apr 2014 CU:<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878259" style="background-color: white; color: #00749e; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12.110400199890137px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878259"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878259</span></a><br />
Project 2010 Apr 2014 CU: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878263" style="background-color: white; color: #00749e; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12.110400199890137px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878263"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878263</span></a><br />
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For more details please see: <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2014/04/09/microsoft-project-server-2010-and-2013-april-2014-cu-announcement.aspx">http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2014/04/09/microsoft-project-server-2010-and-2013-april-2014-cu-announcement.aspx</a><br />
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-14720187195703360162014-04-08T19:00:00.000+04:002014-04-08T19:00:04.669+04:00#SharePoint Product Configuration Wizard Error: Unable to create a Service Connection Point in AD #SP2010 #PS2010<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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command is invalid or a failure has been encountered.</div>
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Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Segoe UI, Lucida Grande, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ULS logs digging helped me found a substantial clue and reminded me that i did come across to similar issue long time back as well. The issue is related to configuration to track any SharePoint production installation to farm of your organization, and tracking requires container in AD with appropriate user permissions to allow installation. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">If the account does not have permission to write to this container, the following warning will appear in the log file for the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard and Wizard will fail at the last step:</span></div>
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Failed to add the service connection point for this farm</div>
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Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.”</div>
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To resolve this follow these steps:</div>
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On the domain controller, click <strong>Start</strong>, point to <strong>Administrative Tools</strong>, and then click <strong>ADSI Edit</strong>, or use a remote administration tool to connect to ADSI Edit from another computer.</div>
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On the <strong>Action</strong> menu, click <strong>Connect to</strong>, and connect to the domain that you want to use.</div>
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In the console tree, expand the connection, expand the domain name, and then click <strong>CN=System</strong>.</div>
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In the details pane, right-click in the white area, click <strong>New</strong>, and then click <strong>Object</strong>.</div>
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In the <strong>Create Object</strong> dialog box, in the <strong>Select a class</strong> box, click <strong>container</strong> and then click <strong>Next</strong>.</div>
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In the <strong>Value</strong> box, type <strong>Microsoft SharePoint Products</strong> as the container name, and then click <strong>Next.</strong></div>
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Click <strong>Finish</strong>.</div>
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The container is created.</div>
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Right click the container (CN=Microsoft SharePoint Products), and then click <strong>Properties</strong>.</div>
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On the <strong>Security</strong> tab, click <strong>Add</strong>.</div>
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In the <strong>Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups</strong> box, add the users that you want to write to this container, and then click <strong>OK</strong>.</div>
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Note that if a user who cannot write to this container installs SharePoint Server 2010, no new entry will be created. Consider giving all Authenticated Users the permission so that you can track all the objects.</div>
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In the <strong>Group or user names</strong> box, select the names that you previously added, and then under the <strong>Permissions</strong> box, click<strong>Advanced</strong>.</div>
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In the <strong>Permission entries</strong> box, select the names that you previously added, and then click <strong>Edit</strong>.</div>
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In the <strong>Permission Entry for Microsoft SharePoint Products</strong> dialog box, in the <strong>Permissions</strong> box, select the <strong>Allow</strong> check box for<strong>Create serviceConnectionPoint objects</strong>, and then click <strong>OK</strong>.</div>
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Now re-run the wizard and hopefully this time it will go through successfully.</div>
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The whole process, with powershell comands as well, can be found here:<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730261.aspx" target="_blank"> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730261.aspx</a></div>
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Happy updating SharePoint farm :)</div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-19203649447403084292014-04-04T08:54:00.003+04:002014-04-29T10:26:10.830+04:00#ProjectServer and #SharePoint 2013 #SP1 download deactviated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Update</span>: Service Pack 1 is re-released now, find details in this <a href="http://khurramjamshed.blogspot.com/2014/04/projectserver-and-sharepoint-2013-sp1_29.html" target="_blank">post</a><br />
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This is to spread the word that due to recently discovered issue, Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint Server 2013 SP1 have been temporarily unavailable for downloading.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.165599822998047px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“We have recently uncovered an issue with this Service Pack 1 package that may prevent customers who have Service Pack 1 from deploying future public or cumulative updates. As a precautionary measure, we have deactivated the download page until a new package is published.”</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.165599822998047px;">Download pages for Project Server and SharePoint are also updated with above reason.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.165599822998047px;">For more details, check Brian Smith post:<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_426827724"> </a></span><span style="line-height: 18.165599822998047px;"><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2014/04/03/project-server-2013-and-sharepoint-2013-sp1-download-deactivated.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2014/04/03/project-server-2013-and-sharepoint-2013-sp1-download-deactivated.aspx</a></span><br />
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-75367187605094435262014-03-02T12:22:00.000+04:002014-03-02T12:22:10.867+04:00#SharePoint 2013 SP1 on the way ... #SP2013 #Office2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thought of spreading this thrilling announcement recently published that SP1 for 2013 product is on its way and expecting to be released early next year.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Service Pack 1 (SP1) for the 2013 set of products including Office, SharePoint and Exchange. SP1 will deliver performance enhancements, feature updates and improve compatibility with Windows 8.1. </span></i></span></div>
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This will be applicable to both on-premises and online versions, and more details are expecting soon. Also i am trying finding any news related to Project Server, if SP1 is applicable to Project Server 2013 as well, and will update through my blog once i find something.<br />
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<u><span style="color: #cc0000;">Update: 2nd March 2014</span></u><br />
Service Pack 1 is released, and you can find the details here in this <a href="http://khurramjamshed.blogspot.com/2014/03/say-hello-to-project-and-projectserver.html" target="_blank">Blog Post.</a></div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-27410120271707960642014-03-02T12:19:00.002+04:002014-03-02T12:19:54.915+04:00Say hello to #Project and #ProjectServer 2013 Service Pack 1 #sp2013 #ps2013 #office2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A quick note to spread the news that Service Pack 1 for SharePoint/Project Server 2013 and other 2013 office products is out now.<br />
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For Project Server 2013, you can download from below:<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42011" style="color: #00749e; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42011</span></a></span></li>
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For Project 2013 client, 32bit or 64bit, you can download from below:<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">32 bit - <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42013" style="color: #00b0e0; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42013</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">64 bit - <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42020" style="color: #00749e; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42020</a></span></li>
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For SharePoint 2013 server, you can download from below:<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42008" style="color: #00749e; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42008</span></a></span></li>
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Few important things to note here, that unlike previous versions, this time SP1 is not a roll-up version. Which means that Project Server SP1 doesn't include SharePoint side of update, and vice verse.<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2014/02/25/project-2013-and-project-server-2013-service-pack-1.aspx">http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2014/02/25/project-2013-and-project-server-2013-service-pack-1.aspx</a><br />
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Also another important point, is that as part of lost resource fix if you have updated the required sproc, then you may need to update them again as SP1 will re-write those sprocs during installation/setup.<br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2933444">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2933444</a><br />
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Also read the Project Client versioning details in Brians's post (same link as above).<br />
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And in the end as always, try all the updates in test environment prior to apply to production.<br />
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Happy patching.<br />
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-83428750006561137602014-01-09T18:30:00.000+04:002014-01-09T18:30:01.987+04:00#SharePoint 2010 setup error: Cannot connect to database master at #sp2010 #ps2010 #sp2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Lately i got a chance to help my customer with standard deployment of Project Server 2010, and as they say "you learn new things each day", i also learnt about an issue which could be seen as basic activity but could lead you to pull your hairs while troubleshooting.<br />
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The issue occurred while running SharePoint 2010 setup, after installing pre-requisites, and following first few initial screens of setup wizard. Once reached to the point where you can enter SharePoint database server name, and credentials which can be used to talk to database server. You may see this error:<br />
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<b>Cannot connect to database master at SQL Server at <server_name>. The database might not exist, or the current user does not have permission to connect to it.</b><br />
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Now if you have followed the recommended technet article to setup service accounts and permission, this error might be little misleading at the start. But root cause of the issue is completely valid.<br />
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There is already a very detailed and helpful blog is available for you to follow to start troubleshooting:<br />
<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2011/01/12/troubleshooting-sharepoint-configuration-error-cannot-connect-to-database-master-at-server-name.aspx">http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2011/01/12/troubleshooting-sharepoint-configuration-error-cannot-connect-to-database-master-at-server-name.aspx</a><br />
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The possible causes of that error are as follows, first 2 are available in this blog, and the 3rd is the one i found and is the reason of this post:<br />
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<li>Permissions of the account used to configure has correct permission within SQL based on technet article.</li>
<li>SQL Server in windows firewall required port, by default its 1433, is allowed to receive traffic from SharePoint application server.</li>
<li>Verify that user through which you are running setup has got permissions to login to SQL Server. Yes, its very common in production or customer environments that you use different credentials to login to server than to the one you use to for deployment. Now either allow that user login permission to SQL Server by going to SQL Server and adding that user under logins within security of SQL Server. Or, run the setup as an administrator. In fact a good practice, is to always run the setup as an administrator to avoid such glitches.</li>
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Have a good day at work.<br />
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-30816944866467455012014-01-01T19:12:00.003+04:002014-01-01T19:12:50.377+04:00Year 2013 Passed, A new to come..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
At the start of new year 2014, when i turn back and see 2013, it seems like it passed with the speed of light. But then this is how it meant to be, as they says "time flies" ....<br />
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For me the year starts with some big fireworks display, as Dubai has plan to create a world record of biggest fireworks at new year. It was fun to witness such historic moment, at the same time a little guilt that this enormous amount of money could be used to something more useful.<br />
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On a personal side of my Year 2013, i have had a great time with my family. My son turned 2, and i now can understand exactly the meaning of terrible 2 :) He is occupying most of my time, and i love every minute spending with him, no matter how much frustrated i could be due to worldly matters, he brings smile to my face and my source to stay motivated.</div>
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Year 2013 was good for me in terms of learning, as Project 2013, online and on-premises versions, was released in this year, and i have got lot of new dimensions of a product to learn. </div>
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Working as PPM/EPM specialist is my passion, and i got a chance to work with different aspects of PPM as a tool to help lay down project management methodology for organization. For some reason, i have got more chance to work on reporting part of a product, and i explored in detail the database level of a product. And here i learnt that how rite use of Top-Down and Bottom-Up approaches of reporting can help organizations to see their desired results.</div>
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Despite of being occupied with work and personal stuff, i have tried to be on my mark when its about gaining knowledge or information about the world of SharePoint/Project Server. And for this i found twitter as my best friend :) i am following some great people from around the world to learn about fact paced technology evolution. Also with the passage of time technology is really coming to palms of our hands now, and i am relying more on my mobile device to stay connected instead of laptop. </div>
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During year 2013, i have also tried to be active through my blog and forums as well. My blog stats reached near to 100,000, and i have got 150+ visitors each day from around the world. So thank you everyone for visiting my blog, and i try to share more during the coming year.</div>
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Lets stay connected, keep visiting my blog, leave your comments, and have a great new Year 2014.</div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-20041942242436024122013-12-31T12:16:00.000+04:002013-12-31T14:23:50.348+04:00#ProjectServer 2013/2010 Dec CU is available #sp2013 #ps2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Little late though, but before the years end would like to share that Dec 2013 CU for Project Server 2013/2010 is available.<br />
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You can find the details of Project Server 2013/2010 installation package here: <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2013/12/12/microsoft-project-server-2010-and-2013-december-cu-announcement.aspx">http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2013/12/12/microsoft-project-server-2010-and-2013-december-cu-announcement.aspx</a><br />
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Note, as usual, that this should be applied to test environment first prior to production. Also Mar 2013 CU is been set as baseline for all Project Sever 2013 CUs, so install Mar 2013 CU first.<br />
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Dec CU includes fix to one of the commonly encountered issue:<br />
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Assume that you change values for fields such as Project Owner and Name on a Project Detail Page (PDP) in Project Web App. When you save and refresh the page, the values are reverted to what they were before the change.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Also at last, try this PowerShell script to install CU for reduced installation time.</span></div>
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<a href="http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Server-2013-automate-and-833aeb0b">http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Server-2013-automate-and-833aeb0b</a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">And if its works for you, please do not forget to rate :) </span></div>
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Happy patching and Happy New Year to everyone .... </div>
Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-1642118934319998042013-12-18T16:55:00.002+04:002013-12-18T16:55:25.479+04:00Bulk Import tool - (401) Unauthorized error #ProjectServer #PS2010 #SP2010<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A quick note to share the Bulk Import tool issue i came across while working in NLB environment.<br />
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Before i proceed, please note that Bulk Import tool was released along with the release of Project Server 2010 and to be used with Project Server 2010. Till date, i am not sure, if Bulk Import tool without modification will work with Project Server 2013. This issue, and its resolution, is for Project Server 2010 environment.<br />
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Some time back Andrew Lavinsky had discuss Bulk Import tool feature in great detail through his <a href="http://azlav.umtblog.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>, a blog worth every minute of your time. Please go through these blog posts if you are interested to use Bulk Import tool:<br />
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<li><a href="http://azlav.umtblog.com/2011/04/20/the-bulk-import-tool-unwrapped/" target="_blank">The Bulk Import tool, Unwrapped (Part 1)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://azlav.umtblog.com/2011/04/21/the-bulk-import-tool-unwrapped-part-2/" target="_blank">The Bulk Import tool, Unwrapped (Part 2)</a></li>
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My post is to highlight the following issue you may come across while trying validating Site URL:<br />
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Now if you are in NLB environment, and you are accessing your PWA using NLB URL, you will come across an error as mentioned above. </div>
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Resolution is quite simple, though it took me a while to figure it out, you need to use your original PWA URL to access your PWA. Open Bulk Import tool now, ensure that you URL you are entering in also based on original PWA URL, click validate - and this time it work.</div>
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Hopefully this will help to some out there - happy importing new projects for analysis as a new year is not far away :)</div>
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Khurram Jamshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14865342297416000261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928866756253893430.post-66596689146009420052013-10-13T13:44:00.002+04:002013-12-31T14:25:11.831+04:00Improvise #ProjectServer 2013 #CU installation time #SP2013 #PS2013 #CU<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
With the release of Project Server 2013 and then release of periodic Cumulative Updates, one evident factor i have experienced is the size of cumulative updates of project server, and the time they requires to be installed.<br />
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Just before this blog, a normal time i have experienced to install any CU on Project Server 2013 servers, were some where between 4-5 hrs and some time more than that as well :( and this duration is for 1 CU only, imagine if you have to install more than 1 CU which is common as March CU is a pre-requiste for any new CUs to be installed.<br />
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Which means, that either you plan to start the installation at day end, so that next day when you will resume work you only have to wait for configuration wizard to be finished<br />
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I have been look for ways to improvise the duration of installation of CU, and the good news is that there is a way to install the same CU with the duration time of between 30-45 mins ... yea you are reading it rite, its <b>mins </b>NOT <b>hrs</b> :)<br />
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Credit for this goes to <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile/russ%20maxwell/" target="_blank">Russ Maxwell</a>, who brought this solution forward. And i am re-posting this good to spread to Project server community, because its equally painful for us as well :)<br />
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From the start the suspect in this whole case, i.e. why CU takes so long, are the SharePoint services running on the server such as App fabric/search etc. As they consume most part of CPU, and push windows installer to a lower priority to consume CPU time.<br />
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So here is a Power-Shell script to automate and speed up the installation process by disabling SharePoint server services gracefully. The scirpts performs the following steps:<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Shut down IIS Admin and Timer Services if they are running </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Give you the option to Pause the Search Service Application (see search notes below) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Stop Search Services (see search notes below) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Install the patch in passive mode (No user interaction required but will witness the patch install in the UI). </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Note: Power Shell should remain open in the background while patch is running.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Upon completion of the patch, the Power Shell script, services in step 1 are set to Automatic </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Starts up IIS Admin and Timer Services </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Starts up Search Services </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Resume the Search Service Application if it was paused </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.162500381469727px;">Finally, the script will display the Start Time and End Time for patch install</span></li>
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The script can be downloaded from the script gallery below:<br />
<a href="http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Server-2013-automate-and-833aeb0b">http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Server-2013-automate-and-833aeb0b</a><br />
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A walkthrough using the script is below:<br />
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Copy the script and CU in the same folder, note that only one CU should be placed in the folder and file extension should be .exe.<br />
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Open the power shell and run the script, i recommend to pause search service application here by choosing 1. The screen shots below are of Project Server 2013 JUN CU installation on my server:<br />
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Notice the installation time of JUN CU, 35 mins, voila :)<br />
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Happy patching.<br />
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