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Understanding Changing Assignment Units in Project
Often I am asked by Project users about assignment units and how can you explain the behaviour in MS Project, most often the questions are around why the % assigned units of a particular resource assigned to a task (an assignment) can change unexpectedly. The...
Update: Reporting from SharePoint lists with SQL2008R2
A long time ago (it seems) I blogged about reporting directly from the SharePoint workspace sites using SQL Reporting Services to get around the limitations with the reporting database refresh. Using XML provided a neat method for pulling data directly from all the...
Resetting Lost Permissions in Project Server 2010
I came across an unexplained issue recently with an ‘old’ Project Server 2010 customer, in short what happened was many of the permissions across the Project workspace sites were lost. Unfortunately the loss was triggered by performing a Playbooks (2010 version)...
Excel Services in a Multi-tenanted Environment
Following on from my previous post about Project Server and PerformancePoint in a multi-tenanted environment, realised that I had not told the whole story! I neglected to include this when I wrote the above, Excel Services is another critical part of Project Server...
Multi-tenancy and Project Server and PerformancePoint 2010
Update 21/01/2011: Update below regarding Excel Services and Multi-tenancy! One of the exciting new features of SharePoint 2010 is multi-tenancy, if you’re working in hosted or shared environments then it is no less than a must-have feature. Unfortunately in the real...
Claims: Exception occurred issuing a security token
With a large customer going live on a fully multi-tenanted claims authenticated platform in the last month I’ve had the chance to really see the limits of these two new features in SharePoint 2010. This issue was one of the big impact problems that I’m hoping that...
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