If you are about to deploy Project Server 2007 and more specifically Project Web Access 2007 for the very first time, then you need the following guides. Walkthrough: Deploy Project Server 2007 to a server farm environmentThis is a four part video that shows how to install Project Server in a new WSS environment. Pay […]
Misc
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 […]
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 […]
Migrating TFS 2008 Project Portal
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle, Misc No Comments
I had a strange problem last week. I was trying to access the WSS portal site for one of our TFS projects. We migrated the TFS to a new domain and the portal site was working before that. However now I’ve got the lovely “404 NOT FOUND” message. More interestingly when I tried to create […]
Connect to TFS 2010 from VS2008
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle, Misc 1 Comment
If try to connect to TFS 2010 instance from Visual Studio 2008 you will probably experience the following error message: Possible reasons for failure include: The Team Foundation Server name, port number or protocol is incorrect. The Team Foundation Server is offline. Password is expired or incorrect. The trick is that due to changes in […]
Boot from VHD
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 has the possibility to boot from VHD. Ideally this will make your VM run with the smallest overhead possible from the host system. It should be interesting to try out Windows Server 2008 Server Core and see how much is the memory footprint. Actually this article “Deploying and Maintaining […]
Empty Blogger RSS feeds
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
I experienced some downtime on my blog due to some problem with Blogger FTP publishing feature. It is unfortunate to see that Blogger is not able to handle forum support anymore except major percent of the blogs stop working. My atom.xml and rss.xml files were having 0 file size although the internal blogger rss feed […]
MSDN Forums Offline Client CTP released
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
Microsoft just announced the CTP release of a offline client for MSDN Forums. The client provides just read only access for now, but posting will be also implemented in future. This is much anticipated tool that the MVP community has been requesting for years, so it is good that it is finally alive. You can […]