If you have ever asked what is the difference between Any CPU, x86 and x64 options in Configuration Manager platform, the answers can be very scarce and scattered through all the Internet. However, Sayed Ibrahim, a fellow VSTS MVP has gathered in one all the responses he had so far. Check out his MSBuild: Building […]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Overwrite an Olap Database problem
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
In disaster recovery situation, you may find that you can no longer generate the Project Server 2007 OLAP cube. The following error is logged in PWA log: ProjectServerOlapCubeGenerator status: ProjectServerOlapCubeGenerator failed with exception: Microsoft.Office.Project.PI.CBSCommon.CBSProcessException: Cannot overwrite an Olap database created outside of Project Server or by another Project Server Site. at ProjectServerOlapCubeGenerator.OlapDatabaseBuilder.VerifySiteOwner(Server dsoAnalisysServer, Database oldOlapDatabase, […]
Disaster Recovery of PWA 2007 site
By Martin Kulov in Misc 2 Comments
If you need to move your existing Project Web Access (PWA) web site to a new server, chances that you have only DB backups are pretty good. Also in situation of disaster recovery it is possible that your WSS backup just can not be taken or does not exist. Here are some basic steps that […]
How to Find if Virtualization is Running in Virtual Server
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
If you still have Virtual Server running, I would definitely recommend that you first migrate to Windows Hyper-V 🙂 However for the rest of us living in the real world, there is a cool trick to check if virtualization is actually running for your virtual machine. You need to see the value of the following […]
DevReach 2009 is coming this October
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
It is less than two months when DevReach 2009 will happen again in Sofia, Bulgaria. This is the forth edition of the wonderful conference gathering so many internationally recognized Microsoft Regional Directors, MVPs, INETA and TechEd speakers. The event will take place on 12-13th of October, in Arena Cinema Mladost, Sofia. We have selected this […]
Search string in SQL Server database
By Martin Kulov in Misc 2 Comments
How you can find a string in a SQL database? One option would be to export the database to Excel file and use the Excel searching capabilities. Unfortunately I did not manage to get the export working for me at all. If you want to do it the smart way, here is a query that […]