Category Archives: Admin

Fixing SharePoint Sync Errors in Project Server 2010

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Here’s a common issue I am finally getting around to blogging up: certain projects always seem to throw an error on Publish, specifically on the part of the Publish job where the Publish database data is pushed into the Reporting … Continue reading →

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Importing Files to Project Online with VBA

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

In yesterday’s post, I talked about how to run a script to export all of our Microsoft Project schedules into XML files.  In this post, I’ll provide the script to import these into a new instance of Project Server – … Continue reading →

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Exporting MPP Files with VBA

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

Well, I didn’t deliberately intend to get into a VBA rut, but periodically, I like to clean out some of the half written posts I have lying around, and it turns out that I apparently left a couple VBA posts … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Conference Project Server BI Linkfest

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

Thanks everyone for coming out to #SPC171 just now, where Microsoft’s Mike McLean and I skimmed a rock over what’s new in Project Server 2013 BI.  Looking for more?  Well, you came to the right place. As we mentioned, we’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Admin, BI, Project Desktop, Reporting, Self Referential, SharePoint | 1 Comment

A Simple Archive Workflow Example

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

It’s a workflow kind of month, and I figured I’d post this quick article on how to leverage UMT’s Project Essentials 2012 with Project Server 2010 to generate a no-code archive process. In this case, the goal is to close … Continue reading →

Posted in Admin, Project Essentials, Workflow, Workflow Designer | 2 Comments

Project 2013 On-Premises: The Missing Settings

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

For those of you just dipping your toes into the new world of Project Server, you might have noticed some key settings that are now missing from the main Server Settings screen. The first thing you may notice are all … Continue reading →

Posted in Admin, Security, Workflow | 2 Comments

The Right Way to Configure Administrative Backup

Posted on August 30, 2012 by

Ran into this again this week, and figured it was worth a blog post.  As any administrator will tell you, Project Server provides the option to create scheduled backups of projects, settings, resources, and custom fields.  This is a great … Continue reading →

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My Very First Post on the New Project Release

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

Much has already been said on all of the wonderful goodness that is part of the new Project that is now in technical preview.  From a blogging perspective, new releases are wonderful things as they allow us bloggers to basically … Continue reading →

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Adding Text Search to the Project Center Interface

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

Update 6/15/2012: See the comment at the bottom. …well not really, but essentially I’ll be discussing how to create the functionality that does that.  My self-assigned goal in this post is to enable SharePoint search to perform a text search … Continue reading →

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Baseline Save Permissions Blocked in Newly Created Projects

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

Today’s post explores a bug that I’ve now run into in a couple different implementations, and finally got around to examining.  Thanks to Rocky, the SysAdmin I’ve been working with for isolating the behavior. First off, this bug only should … Continue reading →

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