Tips and Tricks for Managing and Administering your Enterprise Project Management Server Solution Mike Joe / Karthik Chermakani Software Test Engineer Microsoft Office Project Microsoft Corporation

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Overview Migrating to a Hosted Solution Re-deploying Project Server Re-deploying WSS How to organize a re-org Data maintenance Scenarios for how to know when your deployment is growing too large and what to do Monitoring and troubleshooting

Overview Re-Deploying Project Server Re-Deploying WSS Data Maintenance Post Deployment Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Re-Deploying ProjectServer Two options Use multiple Project Server VDirs Use one Project Server instance Data consistency issues

Re-Deploying ProjectServer Using multiple Project Server vdirs Hosted setup model Consolidated SQL server(s) Different DBs Multiple VDirs of ProjectServer Create using EditSite

Re-Deploying ProjectServer EditSite Run from the command line or UI Connect to multiple partitioned DBs Point to multiple Session Managers Set up WSS connection

Re-Deploying ProjectServer EditSite Available with the Project Server 2003 Resource kit dc2c83e-54e1-40a9-9bb8-2dd293226b6f&DisplayLang=en dc2c83e-54e1-40a9-9bb8-2dd293226b6f&DisplayLang=en

Re-Deploying ProjectServer Using Multiple Project Server vdirs Deployment wide settings Set cube query timeout Useful when many nested outline codes cause long delays HKLM-Software-Microsoft-Office-11.0-MSProject- CUBE Process-SQLTimeout Change session timeout Set per session manager HKLM-Software-Microsoft-Office-11.0-MSProject- Services- SessionMgr-Timeout

Re-Deploying ProjectServer Using Multiple Project Server vdirs Enforce security per vdir PWA Security permission lockdown DB field is: WSEC_ACCESS=0 in MSP_WEB_SECURITY_ORG_PERMISSIONS WSS site access lockdown Prevent the Project Server org from linking to other WSS sites DB field is: WADMIN_IS_HOSTED_ORG = 1 in MSP_WEB_ADMIN

Overview Re-Deploying Project Server Re-Deploying WSS Data Maintenance Post Setup Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Re-Deploying WSS Moving WSS data Two options: Move WSS sites to new server OR Connect to multiple WSS servers

Re-Deploying WSS Moving WSS sites to new server Use to consolidate servers WSSMigr to migrate WSS sites Run ‘WSSMigr –bo…’ on source WSS server Move files to destination WSS server Run ‘WSSMigr –ro…’ on destination WSS server Project Server WSS WSS

Re-Deploying WSS WSSMigr Command line tool Runs on WSS server Uses connection to Project Server Backs up/ restores Project WSS sites Available with Project Server 2003 Resource Kit ada79f5-2adb-43d8-8a33-9b34d2ebbba7&DisplayLang=en ada79f5-2adb-43d8-8a33-9b34d2ebbba7&DisplayLang=en

Re-Deploying WSS Connect to multiple WSS servers DB support exists Use DB script to link projects to sites on ‘non- current’ WSS server Project Server WSS WSS Add row to MSP_WEB_STS_SERVERS Add new WSS server to proxycfg bypass Add COM+ account user as Web Admin DB

Re-Deploying WSS Tips and Best Practices Improve WSS data manageability Use multiple content DBs Distribute ‘heavy’ sites Syncing site users with Project Server Use AD sync first! Auto-sync does not affect existing users Manually sync site whenever users change

Overview Re-Deploying Project Server Re-Deploying WSS Data Maintenance Post Deployment Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Re-Org Changes New Employees Accounting Employees Leaving Org Cut or Changed Tasks Changed or Updated Projects Extraneous Status Reports Unnecessary Pending Updates Cut Projects

Data Maintenance Clean Up Project Server DB

Data Maintenance Data Deletion Project Server data is not archived for the most part and cannot be retrieved via Project Server functionality When to delete data Deleting data in PWA Projects (and Sharepoint sites), Resources, Tasks, Status Reports Most have different options to bulk delete, or delete per item

Data Maintenance Deleting Tasks Deletes task assignment data Task assignment data is deleted from resources, but remains in project

Data Maintenance Deleting Resource Task Changes Deletes any pending updates from resources on tasks Updates already accepted or updated cannot be deleted Doesn’t remove the update from the resource’s timesheet. Resource can resubmit their changes.

Data Maintenance Deleting Projects and To-Do Lists Can delete Sharepoint team web site created with the projects All project related data will be removed and NOT archived (except for resources)

Data Maintenance Deleting Resources Data isn’t deleted from database Resource will remain in MSP_WEB_Resources table. All projects with that resource is replaced with a local resource with the same name plus a deletion comment Resource will be removed from the Enterprise Resource Pool Resource in PWA will be set to inactive and removed from the list

Data Maintenance Merging Resources As An Alternative Merge users to reassign all tasks to a different user Merged resource is deleted after merger

Data Maintenance Data Deletion – Other Methods Deleting data from Project Professional File/Open dialog Custom Solution Project Data Service (PDS) PRK Tools: Project Server Cleaner

Overview Re-Deploying Project Server Re-Deploying WSS Data Maintenance Post Deployment Monitoring and Troubleshooting

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Adatum Post Deployment Challenges What to monitor and how to monitor Common problems and mitigation techniques

Basic Monitoring SmokeTest

Views Processing Monitoring PS Health Monitor

Multiple Views Processing Project Server 2003 SP1 introduces a new feature which allows scaling out of the views processing service Helps in increasing the throughput of publish processing

Multiple Views Processing

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