#Project and ##ProjectServer Oct CU available

Oct 2012 CU for Project and Project server is now available for download. Note that SP1 is pre requiste for this update to be installed on your environment. For download link and more details, please follow:http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectadministration/archive/2012/11/05/microsoft-project-server-and-sharepoint-server-2007-and-2010-october-2012-cu-announcement.aspx Happy updating..&nbs...

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Project Server 2013 RTM Available NOW !

Following first wave release of : Microsoft Project Professional 2013, and SharePoint 2013 are available for download on MSDN,  Microsoft Project Server 2013 is now available for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribes. For more details: Microsoft Project Server 2013 RTM available for download on MSDN. Happy exploring ...

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Demand Management using SharePoint Designer 2013

One of the amazing capabilities of Project Server 2010 was introduction of Demand Management concept, which let us automate complete project/proposal life cycle to provide more control to the project flow and data. Development of Project workflows, at high level, can be seen comprises of following major steps process: 1. Configuration within project server, such EPTs, PDPs, custom fields etc. etc. 2. Develop workflow using .Net or Use of any...

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Project Server 2013 - My First PWA

In continuation to my work related to evaluation of Project Server 2013, i have finally reached to the final milestone of provisioning my first PWA 2013 site .. wohooo... :) My very brief and spontoneour reaction was, man its awesome :) . The interface and arrangment of options are quite different than its predecessors, where Project Server 2010 was following almost the same interface and same placement of navigation links to different options...

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SharePoint 2013 becomes more customer's oriented :)

Now this might not be a big deal for many of you, but i am quite excited to have my first SharePoint 2013 server farm configured and Central Admin up and running :) Also the first thing which strikes to me, and encouraged me to be more optimistic towards the promisisng offerings by this new version, is when i was configuring farm services through wizard and been put on hold with this nice polite message while server doing its best to run all...

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I am Alive..

Hello all, Its been a while since i am not writing, and that due to multiple reasons. First and foremost is due to my over occupied work load, and other reasons are several :) so lets ignore all the other excuses. But the good thing is that i am back to business, and more focused towards what i love to do the most. There is a lot happening in Microsoft world, new versions of almost all the client and server products are on their way...

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Project Server 2010 supports SQL Server 2012

With the recent release of SQL Server 2012, Project Server 2010 Hardware/Software support TechNet documentation is also updated. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee683978.aspx The SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1 and Project Server 2010 Service Pack 1 updates must be installed to your Project Server 2010 installations in your farm in order to use SQL Server 2012 to host your farm databas...

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Project Server 2010 integration with SAP

Recently Microsoft partner company, Adviscon, has published white paper "Project Server 2010 integration with SAP". There is not enough information available related to the integration of  Project Server and SAP and its benefits, and this white paper indeed is a valueable material. Below is the executive summary from the white paper to give you an overview, and the link to download the white paper: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh770392.aspx This white paper outlines the benefits and scenarios for integrating Microsoft Project Server 2010 with SAP’s ERP; in particular integrating the actual time reporting from SAP with the...

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Project Server Databases Restore Failure - 3203 Error

Phew ..... wasnt really sure that i was able to overcome this and thought that all my efforts are lost now. But finally managed to fix it, and decided to put all bits and pieces in blog to help others. I took the backup of my PWA i.e. 5db set, and when i tried to restore it to SQL so that i provision it on my VM environment, the following error has been thrown by SQL restore dialog box: I am pasting the additional error information...

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Year 2011 in review

A year 2011 is been a roller-coaster ride for me through out in terms of personal and professional activities. Professionally, being a Project Management specialist using Ms EPM solution, it was year of lot of new learnings and achivements. Since the release of SharePoint 2010 and than later Project Server 2010 during mid of last year 2010, there were so much to catch up to grasp the early release of the product and than to demonstrate and implement to the real world scenarios. And without any doubt the Project Server 2010 is the most mature product from any of its predecessor, and this claims the Microsoft the highest rating for Project...

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