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It’s nice of Microsoft to recognise us tireless techies who spend the majority of their lives watching progress bars. Needless to say I’ve got the 2013 preview itch this week, very keen to see under the hood of some of the new features (tenancy, CSOM, etc), so stay...
Recovering from Project Server corruption
A customer of mine recently had to recover from a worst case corruption scenario; one in which reverting to a backup was not an option. In short a hardware change resulted in progressive database corruption that was not picked up for over two weeks(!), leaving few...
Disabling Backwards Compatibility Mode results in Corruption
This issue has recently affected more than one of my customers, so I thought after a few months working with Microsoft support it is definitely worth sharing; Problem: When attempting to disable BCM mode from Server Settings in a migrated Project Server 2010...
Enterprise Project Type Icons Available
One thing I always have to search for when creating a new EPT is the appropriate icon to use. I have previously found and used some of the out-of-the-box icons that can be found in any default Project Server 2010 installation and thought that I might share them here....
Error: Failed to get language information for Project Server
I hate log noise, errors like the following: Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-Project Server Date: 23/09/2011 11:16:05 AM Event ID: 2077 Task Category: General Level: Error Keywords: User: NT AUTHORITYIUSR Computer: server.domain.local...
Cube Building Errors after SP1 Installation
A customer of mine had this one after completing the upgrade to SP1 recently, basically all cube building would fail with the following error: Your CBSRequest job failed. Its current state is FailedNotBlocking. It was 0% complete. It entered the queue at 09/02/2011...
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