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Config Wizard Problem Installing Cumulative Update
This is actually why I started blogging. Ran across this issue deploying the Feb 2012 CU update for a SharePoint 2010 customer; [OWSTIMER] [SPUpgradeSession] [ERROR] [6/12/2013 2:46:34 PM]: Exception: Cannot drop the procedure 'MSP_WEB_SR_DeleteUserData', because it...
PSI in 2013: Unhandled Communication Fault occurred
I’ve had the fun task of shoe-horning some 2010 PSI projects into Project Server 2013 recently, and the good news is that as promised the PSI is still there just as we remember it! One particular exception I kept seeing in my code immediately when using SharePoint...
MS Reporting (Project Publish) jobs Failed after AprilCU
This is one that has been causing me some grief the past couple of weeks, after apply Project Server 2013 April CU (KB2737990) a couple of customers started reporting the following errors intermittently in the queue: GeneralQueueJobFailed (26000) -...
PWA Provisioning in 2013 or ‘Look no site collection!’
A few people have written about PowerShell provisioning of PWA in 2013, see here and here, both reference this TechNet source. However if you’re anything like me you might find these confusing! Coming from 2010 it seems that everything has changed, so after struggling...
SharePoint and Windows Live ID
One of the great features of Claims authentication in SharePoint (2010 or 2013) is the ability to use external authentication providers such as ADFS, Microsoft LiveID (Hotmail, Outlook.com etc) or even Google among others. Better yet, using Microsoft Azure ACS makes...
Project Server DR Failover SQL Cube Issue
Fortunately I do not often have to enact my customer’s disaster recovery plans, but when I do I am glad for things like SQL mirroring and SharePoint database fail-over. No plan is perfect though, in this particular case Project Server OLAP cubes would refuse to build...
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