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Microsoft Project August 2010 Cumulative Update

Microsoft Project August 2010 Cumulative Update . Adrian Jenkins Brian Smith. Agenda. Today’s Webcast. Introductions The purpose for these webcasts Overview of Cumulative Updates (CUs) Engaging Customer Services and Support (CSS) Microsoft ® Office Project 2007 fixes

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Microsoft Project August 2010 Cumulative Update

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  1. Microsoft Project August 2010 Cumulative Update Adrian Jenkins Brian Smith

  2. Agenda

  3. Today’s Webcast • Introductions • The purpose for these webcasts • Overview of Cumulative Updates (CUs) • Engaging Customer Services and Support (CSS) • Microsoft® Office Project 2007 fixes • Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007 fixes • Microsoft® Project 2010 fixes • Microsoft® Project Server 2010 fixes • CU Deployment & Links

  4. Purpose • A regularly scheduled time to: • Allow usto give you an overview about the CU to help facilitate deployment in your environment. • Allow youto ask detailed questions about the fixes that are in the cumulative update via the Microsoft® Office Live Meeting Q&A process. • Here’s the schedule of webcasts:

  5. February 11 April 1 May 21 July 11 September 1 October 21 December 11 December 2010 CU9/27/10 - 12/14/10 April 2010 CU1/25/10 - 4/27/10 August 2010 CU5/31/10 - 8/31/10 June 2010 CU3/29/10 - 6/29/10 October 2010 CU8/2/10 - 10/26/10 Cumulative Update (CU) • The CU is: • An accumulated sets of hotfixes that are delivered on a defined schedule. • The goals of CUs are to: • Enhance predictability for customers. • Enable scalability to prevent painful backlogs. • Maintain the current high level of quality. • Potentially improve overall response time.

  6. Engaging Customer Services and Support • Engage CSS for Bugs: • Premier Customers – Through organizational escalation processes. Engage Technical Account Manager for assistance if this is not defined in your organization. • Professional Customers - http://support.microsoft.com/select/default.aspx?target=assistance&c1=505& Note: Hotfixes are a Premier Level Service Option. For Professional Customers, we can only submit crashing and data loss bugs for hotfix. Anyone can download a hotfix that has been released. There is a link in the top-left corner of the Cumulative Update Release Knowledge Base (KB) article that you can click to download the Cumulative Update free of charge.

  7. Project 2007 Client

  8. Project 2007 - KB 2289175 • 26878 – Contoured baseline work may change when a project is opened from Project Server. • 26966 – Continuation of 26688. Task positions and ordering may change when a project is opened. • 26922 – The calculation for remaining cost is different than Microsoft® Office Project 2003 when there are fixed costs and costs are not calculated by Project. • 27083 – An error such as the following may occur while saving projects: Job Type: Save Error ID: 12005(0x2EE5) Error Description: Queue Failed to Process the message. If an error occurs while saving, the process is supposed to retry, but because of a flaw the retry attempts to do an incremental instead of overwrite save.

  9. Project 2007 - KB 2289175 • 27234 – Project may crash while copying and pasting tasks within the context of a master project. This can occur specifically when the predecessors and successors get pasted. • 27367 – A sub-project’s finish dates may increase each time the master project is calculated and when the sub-project is not expanded. • 27398 – After saving a master project and if you have chosen to save the sub-projects as well, you may see a message similar to: The file cannot be saved. - Check that the file name and path are correct. - Check that the file format is recognized by Project. Project files saved in a version earlier than Microsoft Project 98 can't be opened. If your file is from an earlier version, open it in that version, click Save as (File menu), and save in MPX format. Open the MPX in the current version of Project. When you use this method, project data is imported, but formatting is lost.

  10. Project 2007 - KB 2289175 • 27399 – When working in a master project, if you click a link and within the Task Dependency dialog and you choose to delete the link, Project may crash.

  11. Project 2007 Server

  12. Project Server 2007 - KB2276475 • 26959 –Timesheet actual work may not get populated in the Reporting DB if initial save or submit fails. • 27027 – When using server APIs to create projects, the AddAfterTaskUID parameter is not being respected, which means tasks may appear in the wrong order. • 27036 –When a team member imports a timesheet where actual work has been deleted for a task where no planned work existed on the day, the value of "0h" does not get imported. • 27098 – Timesheet users are able to add the top-level project summary task to their timesheet and track time against it even if the project is closed to updates.

  13. Project Server 2007 - KB2276475 • 27200 – When a task is scheduled before a project’s start date, when updates are applied to it, the task’s start date and actual work may get scheduled to an even earlier date. • 27303 & 27838 – After applying updates, publishing may take a really long time, or the task approvals and approvals preview pages won't load, importing timesheets times out, etc. • 27330 –When task updates are made and a project plan is subsequently fully published, some of the Project Custom fields may be deleted and are no longer in the Reporting database. 

  14. Project Server 2007 - KB2276475 • 27369 – When saving projects where resources have lookup tables applied, every custom field property gets saved each time. • 27415 – When a Project Server Interface (PSI) publish is invoked, resource availability may move. This can occur when there are links from tasks to summary tasks and a SS link type is used.

  15. Project 2010 Client

  16. Project 2010 – No Fixes in August CU

  17. Project 2010 Server

  18. Project Server 2010 – KB 2276341 • 27051 – When resolving user names that are from a claims provider, can now resolve based on an e-mail address as well. • 27053 – Whenever a new site is provisioned, the queue infrastructure restarts. • 27054 – When there are a large number of sites in a farm, the queue infrastructure can consume a large amount of memory. • 27481 – If there are intermittent connectivity issues with Active Directory®, accounts are deactivated. • 27844 – Restoring a site may fail if it was a site where a host header was used.

  19. Project Server 2010 – KB 2276341 • 27899 – When progress is updated on manually scheduled tasks, the baseline values on other manually scheduled tasks may get removed.

  20. Project Server 2010 – KB 2276341 • Various – 16 fixes made to the Schedule Web Part (drill- down view) • Crash if view includes “Task Summary Name” field. • Error if click on the Edit button more than once. • Saving a project while grouping is applied may mess up the task hierarchy. • Error a when trying to save a project after the “Fixed Work” message has appeared. • Publish fails if a summary task has no name and if a sub-task has an assignment. • Task Hierarchy doesn’t look correct if you undo after deleting tasks and while filter is applied.

  21. Project Server 2010 – KB 2276341 • May crash if expanding sub-projects of a master project. • May crash if the outline level of a task is changed after having deleted some summary tasks. • If there is an error, you cannot scroll the grid horizontally. • Sorting and grouping on local custom fields does not work correctly. • View-based filters don’t always work correctly on date fields. This is especially true in some languages like French. • Grouping on the predecessors field does not work.

  22. Project Server 2010 – KB 2276341 • May not be able to expand the task hierarchy when a new task is inserted before a group of collapsed tasks. • The web part may not be able to display projects where there are blank or “NULL” tasks. • If rich text is added to a note within Project Professional, it may cause the web part of fail to load. The user sees a message similar to “Error in Grid - Cannot communicate with the server” • If rich text is pasted into a field within the web part, you may be unable to save the project.

  23. High-Level Software Update Steps Resources • Update Center for Microsoft®Office, Office Servers, and Related Products: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx • Deploy Project Server 2007/2010 updates TechNet articles Steps • Preparation • Complete software update signoff in Test environment • Back up your environment since you cannot un-install an update • Create a single deployment package (slipstream) • Installation • Windows®SharePoint®Services • Server Rollup packages • 2007 – Microsoft® Office SharePoint®Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (includes Project Server) • 2010 - Microsoft® SharePoint®Server 2010 and Project Server 2010 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package   • Language Packs (if needed) • SharePoint Server 2007/2010 Language Pack • Repeat above steps for each server in your farm • Run Microsoft® SharePoint®Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard • Deploy Project desktop update • Verification • Review ULS logs (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\{version}\LOGS) • Verify product version in Add or Remove Programs/Programs and Features • Verify database version

  24. Microsoft Project/Project Server Resources • Product information and trial download • Main product site www.microsoft.com/project/2010/ • Project Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/project/ • End-user product help • Project 2010 Help http://office2010.microsoft.com/project-help • Project Server 2010 Help http://office2010.microsoft.com/project-server-help • Support Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/ • Interactive content – Videos/Sessions/Webcasts • www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/channels/microsoftproject/ • www.microsoft.com/events/series/epm.aspx • Prior Webcast www.microsoft.com/events/series/epm.aspx?tab=Webcasts&seriesid=51&webcastid=14007 • Project & Project Server 2010 demo image • Downloadhttp://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9713956 • Hosted Virtual Lab http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9713654 • IT professional related - TechNet • TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/ProjectServer/ • Admin Blog http://blogs.technet.com/projectadministration/

  25. Microsoft Project/Project Server Resources • Developer related – Microsoft® Developer Network (MSDN®) • Developer center http://msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ • Programmability blog http://blogs.msdn.com/project_programmability/ • Got questions? Project Forums! • http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/projectserver2010,projectprofessional2010/ • Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 • http://sharepoint.microsoft.com

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