by Martin Laukkanen | Jul 30, 2010 | Project 2010, SQL, Troubleshooting
Came across this issue when building my cube using SQL AS 2005 with 2010 for the first time;
[7/23/2010 9:28 AM] Failed to build the OLAP cubes. Error: Failed to process the Analysis Services database PS2010TestCube1 on the PRJDBCLUSTER server. Error: OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Class not registered.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘Project Reporting data source’, Name of ‘Project Reporting data source’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘PS2010TestCube1’, Name of ‘Assignment Owner’ was being processed.
Server: The operation has been cancelled.
Fortunately the solution was not too hard to come by; it seems that you need to install the SQL 2008 Native client on the SQL 2005 server in order to fix this one.
Hope that helps someone!
by Martin Laukkanen | Jul 7, 2010 | Project 2010, Project Pro 2007, Troubleshooting
This is a new error that has been bugging me for a few weeks now:
The error message "Project Server encountered a problem with this error code:9000" occurs when attempting to save a project in Project Professional 2007 client:
Additionally you may receive a blank "Job failed" window when trying to check-in a project:
This problem is caused by an Internet Explorer login session to Project Web Access expiring and as a result the project client is forced to re-login, however this re-login only seems to be supported in Project Professional 2010 and not 2007 client running in backwards compatibility mode.
This only applies to Project Servers / SharePoint configured to use Claims authentication, or when Project Professional 2007 is using Forms authentication to logon to PWA. (I assume Project Pro can re-authenticate easily using NTLM)
The best workaround to this is to not use the connect / disconnect and work offline options in Project Professional as this does not re-log you in.
Additionally perhaps avoid opening PWA in a separate Internet Explorer window so as to not logout inadvertently.
Performance problems also exacerbate this issue.
Hope this helps someone!
UPDATE 11/09/2010:
Since posting the above I have run into this error on some other occasions not related to Claims based authentication. Specifically I found this error would occur whenever attempting to save one particular MPP file into a server. In that particular case reviewing the schedule and specifically the resource sheet turned up the cause:
Clearly this resource is corrupted (this is an English install) in some way, what this indicates is that the error 9000 is a generic ‘error of last resort’ it would seem.
by Martin Laukkanen | Jun 6, 2010 | SharePoint 2010
I just spent some time setting up my first claims based authenticated Project Server 2010 and thought I would post my experiences here, maybe that will help someone avoid the issues I had.
Firstly Bill Baer’s TechNet Blog has a great how-to article on the setup of claims-based authentication, unfortunately there are a few mistakes and omissions in the post that will cause some issues if you follow the steps as provided.
To clarify one mistake I noticed (where Bill asks you to update the Central Admin web.config twice) you must configure the web.config of the following:
- Central Administration Web Application
Security Token Service Error:
Secondly when updating the Security Token Service, in my default install I found that there was no <system.web> tag, and so placing the config after the </system.net> as instructed by Bill, caused the following error when trying to login:
ProtocolException: The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (application/soap+msbin1). If using a custom encoder, be sure that the IsContentTypeSupported method is implemented properly. T
Once I enclosed my <membership> and <rolemanager> tags in a <system.web> </system.web> all was good. Thanks to this thread for that solution.
Secure Store Error:
Finally once I got it all setup the I was getting errors trying to open my Excel data connections via Excel Services, the ULS log error was the following:
06/04/2010 12:52:42.78 w3wp.exe (0x1AA4) 0x1D94 Secure Store Service Secure Store 7493 Critical The Microsoft Secure Store Service application Secure Store Service failed to retrieve credentials. The error returned was ‘Access is denied.’. For more information, see the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Software Development Kit (SDK). e994ce5b-fcde-43e8-a32b-c2427a86fc6d
This one turned out to be very simple, I forgot to add my new claims ‘role’ group to the Target Application Members configured and used by my data connections. Editing the Target Application under the Secure Store Service Application and adding to the Members those users logging in using claims fixed that one.
by Martin Laukkanen | Jun 6, 2010 | Project 2010, Troubleshooting
Been very quiet on this blog the last couple of weeks, largely due to the fact that I’ve just kicked off my second PS2010 project (this one for one of the big mobile network management companies), while at the same time being in the thick of the first round of system testing for my first 2010 project!
I’ve got a handful of things I wanted to blog about but let’s start with some issues that I have come across, some of these I plan to log with MS, however none were really bad enough to cause any major concern.
1. Workspace Template Risks List ‘Exposure’ Unexpected Error
When you create a blank template site (not linked to a project) an ‘Unexpected Error’ will occur when you try to edit the field behind the default ‘Exposure’ field. This doesn’t happen when the site is linked to a project through the normal project creation.
Fortunately the standard calculation (Consequence * Likelihood) is all that I usually use anyway so this is a non-issue.
2. No Spaces Between Tasks when using PWA online editing
This one is causing some frustration, basically the Project Web App online editing does not support blank lines between tasks at all. Rather annoying as just about everyone I know uses spaces to make large projects more readable.
3. BCM Project Professional 2007 Crash when spaces exist between tasks
This one is related to #2 above, if you save a project template containing spaces between tasks (blank lines) and associate it with an Enterprise Project Type, then it seems when in BCM mode attempting to open a project created by that type will cause problems for Project 2007 client, but not 2010.
I didn’t fully test this one out to find if there are any other factors, but after removing the blank lines from my templates both this and #2 were fixed.
5. Project Client version restriction ignores CU build numbers
This one is more of an annoyance, it seems that the new feature in server settings to restrict the version number of connecting Project Pro clients only recognises major build numbers, ie Service Packs. Meaning that trying to force all 2007 clients in BCM mode to run at least Feb2010 CU will be just as troublesome as it always was.
5. Project Template used by EPT with Budget Resources assigned causes failure to create project
This is probably the worst issue I have found, I like the Budget Cost feature but it doesn’t seem to be the most widely used feature if an issue like this can slip through testing. I’m probably going to log this one with MS, but for this particular customer we simply modified our procedures to work around it. Here is my full issue description:
Issue:
Attempting to save an Enterprise Template and associate it with an Enterprise Project Type when the template includes Budget Resources assigned to the Project Summary Task causes a failure in the project creation queue job(s).
Environment:
Project Server 2010 RTM
Project Professional 2007 or 2010
Reproduction Steps:
- Create a new blank project in Project Professional
- From Tools – Options menu select ‘Show Project Summary Task’ (or equiv ribbon in 2010)
- Select Resource Sheet view, then add a single Cost Resource named ‘Test’
- Double click the resource to edit properties, and select ‘Budget’ to set the resource as a Budget Cost resource
- Assign the Test resource to the Project Summary Task
- Save As to save as an Enterprise Template named ‘Test Template’
- Open PWA, go to Server Settings – Enterprise Project Types
- Create a new Project Type as follows;
- Name: Test type
- Workflow: No Workflow
- New Project Page: Proposal Details (or anything else)
- Project Plan Template: Test Template
- All other values default
- Select Project Centre, New Project – “Test type”
- Enter the details and Save
Result:
Queue job fails with the following error:
Datasets:
ProjectDataSet
Table Assignment
Row: ASSN_UID=’18a3ec42-a1ad-415b-9e38-5b822f38750e’ PROJ_UID=’09c32ca4-5d86-4b0b-91f0-21e8abe97e3c’
Error TaskNotFound (7021) – column
General
Queue:
GeneralQueueJobFailed (26000) – ProjectCreate.ProjectAddToMessage. Details: id=’26000′ name=’GeneralQueueJobFailed’ uid=’b6640d9d-36ab-496d-b210-7b765ea852ea’ JobUID=’abf46cad-10b1-4e7c-94b8-6beeb76b30c5′ ComputerName=’AU-GLB-MSP04′ GroupType=’ProjectCreate’ MessageType=’ProjectAddToMessage’ MessageId=’1′ Stage=”. For more details, check the ULS logs on machine AU-GLB-MSP04 for entries with JobUID abf46cad-10b1-4e7c-94b8-6beeb76b30c5.
by Martin Laukkanen | May 17, 2010 | Project 2010, SharePoint 2010, SQL
With SharePoint 2010 adding a good number of new databases to the default configuration one thing that is sorely missing is the ability to easily name those databases.
Is it just me who has to conform to strict database naming conventions in most installations of Project Server?
I’ve just been working on what I think is a pretty typical Project Server 2010 installation and found that in-order to simply prefix my databases names with something rather than let them be automatically named with a GUID I faced the following:
- Central Admin and the farm configuration is the same as 2007, the PSCONFIG command line will let you name both of those databases.
- Session State Service Application – the first hurdle, this one requires a PowerShell command to give the database a name, e.g.:
$serviceApp = New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name "State Service"
New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name "MyPrefix_State_Service" -ServiceApplication $serviceApp
New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy -Name "State Service" -ServiceApplication $serviceApp –DefaultProxyGroup
- Secure Store Application – Central Admin fortunately will let you name the database through the usual creation process.
- Search Service Application – Next hurdle and this one much bigger, three databases are required now for the Search service; Administration, Crawl and Property databases are created, this blog post has a nice PowerShell script to create the service with named databases but with 50 odd lines for the script I’m not going to repeat it here. Fortunately if you’re happy with not naming just one of those three databases, it is actually possible to create new Crawl and Property databases with specified names after creating the three using Central Admin.
- PerformancePoint Service – Well for this one I have not found a way to name the database?! I need to revisit this as there must be a way, but looking at the PowerShell command line options and searching TechNet I couldn’t find one!
- User Profile Service, Excel Services and WSS Usage are all well behaved and through Central Admin you can name the databases.
So it’s about time to get that installation PowerShell script done, as unless your happy with the default wizard configuration then this setup is getting quite long “just” to get Project Server 2010 installed.
