Project Server technical bits

Since MS provided the ability to plan only using PWA, this has been a really useful feature for some users.  However there has always been a (certainly from my perspective) perceived issue, in that the ability to reschedule incomplete work into the future (a key component of the planning cycle) was only available in MS Project client. The other day I was asked by a customer how they could get around this issue.  They use PWA extensively (cost reasons) for planning but were struggling with realising correct resource forecast data as they PM's were not able to re-forecast their remaining work schedule. As we had recently patched the Project Server to 2013 SP1 + 0614CU I thought I would look at the STOP/RESUME fields in the Project views to see if these were editable, and surprise surprise they were. The stop/resume fields are how MS Project handles task splits and the "update remaining work to restart after" component of rescheduling.  The Stop field will indica...

Quick description: We installed PWA, OWC and SQL AS 10.0 OLE DB Provider for a client install for Project Server 2007.  Everything was hunkydory except, navigating to the Data Analysis page stated we needed to install Office Web Components.  For some reason the web part wasn’t recognising that this was already installed. Hang on… thought we had… We reinstalled/ repaired / hopped up and down alot.  Nothing.  It just would not acknowledge it was there Client PC #2 - same issue Server side - same issue Hop hop hop (scream) When selecting Edit page on the Data Analysis page it actually correctly displayed the web part.  I also noticed that creating a DA view was fine too EH!?!?!??!! On hitting hard refresh attempted to show the page toolbar before prompting again to install OWC Several hours later………… The Fix = remove and re-add the Data Analysis to the page (oh god, why didn’t i think of that sooner) Time to work out the fix = 3 days Grey...

Post on its way soon (just testing)

The scenario: You have a project workspace linked to a project That workspace has a custom document library/list or Item that requires limited user access The permissions for the document library are not inherited from the parent site Users for this document library/list are added individually The action Customer permissions are changed in PWA User Sync kicks off and re-syncs the users permissions The outcome The user permissions are removed and re-added to the site as expected Any "unique" user level permissions on the site are removed (ie if you have added additional "contributor" access as well as the Microsoft Office Project Server group permissions, etc) The users permissions on the list/item that do no inherit from the site are also removed but are not re-added It appears that the user synchronisation can remove all permissions from the site, lists and items including those where permissions are not inherited, but can only add site level and inherited permissi...