If you have the setting to allow personal tasks to be added to the timesheet then they of course could come from the user. But what about the ones that haven’t been entered by the user and appear to have the same name as tasks that were in projects that they had already started work […]
I was reviewing a case yesterday and just checking the behavior of SharePoint permissions in Project Web App after an upgrade from 2007 to 2010 – either in place or a 5 database – thought this might be useful information to blog about. In 2007 in the Project Web Access site the users would be […]
In SharePoint 2010 when you upgrade to a new Cumulative Update or Service Pack this involves two main steps – first is loading the binaries, and the second is running the SharePoint Server 2010 configuration wizard (psconfig or psconfigui). SharePoint supports delaying the running of the configuration wizard or even detaching content databases while running […]
A bit of fun for Friday afternoon. A question came via the forums on the subject of Portfolio Analysis in Project Server 2010 and how a decision would be made on the allocation of resources if the projects had exactly the same priority. Firstly there is no real optimization logic in the resourcing part of […]
I came across this great posting from Jie Li while looking around Stefan Goßner’s blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/ and thought it would make interesting reading for the Project audience too. One word of caution first – Jie Li mentions the well known SharePoint practice of detaching content databases while applying patches so that you can upgrade […]
This posting follows on from the one yesterday concerning how Project Server makes use of SharePoint permissions and features – but concentrates on some potential issues you can run into if you have a very large user base and also have projects that have very large teams. We are also authoring a TechNet article explaining […]
In Project Server 2010, and in 2007 too for that matter, Project Server manages the setting of permissions on the various SharePoint sites used for Project Server. So for example when you add a user to Project Web App (PWA) they will also be added with the right permissions to the PWA site itself. If […]
