Have you ever wanted to hide tasks from the Gantt Chart? The following technique is useful for tidying up a schedule – for example, if you want to show only pertinent Gantt information for a presentation, or take a screenshot of a plan for a client that...
A useful little nugget about Microsoft Project that came in handy the other day is showing or hiding items from your Gantt chart. It’s as simple as this: In Microsoft Project right-click in the Gantt Chart and select “Gridlines”: To show, for example...
Inactivate task is a new feature for EPM2010; this feature enables the project manager to set certain tasks to inactive rather than deleting the tasks. This functionality is also useful for performing what-if analysis. The following paragraph from Microsoft...
I recently had an issue at a client where the Project Center was failing to load and returning “An unknown error has occurred” on the page. We have seen this behaviour before and it’s usually some corrupt Project data that causes it...
Quite often there is a request for audit information from Project Server but unfortunately there is nothing available out of the box. This post covers a very high-level solution to this using the Project Server PSI and PowerShell. Most actions in Project...
Following on from my previous post Customising the Project Professional install, this post looks at slipstreaming the Project Professional 2010 updates into the Project install media. This simplifies the install as there is just one install file to run...
I recently looked into accessing the Project Server PSI via PowerShell, luckily I came across this MSDN article that helped: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg607685.aspx#pj14_GettingStartedTa_PowerShell. I needed to get the data into a pipe delimited...
This post will detail the errors seen when trying to add or edit items in a Project Site / Project Workspace in Project Server when adding users manually to a Project Site when they don’t have the correct permission in Project Server. For the purpose...
When installing Project Server 2010 it is always best practice to use an alias name for the SQL server as this makes life easier should you want to move SQL servers at a later date. This raises the question, SQL alias (using SQL cliconfg utility – pic...
Microsoft Guides: Capacity management and sizing for SharePoint & Project Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261700(office.14).aspx Software Boundaries and Limitations for SharePoint & Project Server 2010: http://technet...
Just a quick post to mention that Microsoft have now released documentation on the recommended SQL server database maintenance plans for Project Server 2010. SQL Server database plans are very important in keeping Project Server performing reliably and...
Getting synch errors in the Project Queue relating the Reporting WSS sync? Link to task functionality not working? Risks and issues not showing in the reminders web part on the PWA home page? If you have any of these issues then it is quite likely that...