Archive for June, 2008

27
Jun

Error when provisioning a Project Workspace

Project Server splits project data across two areas: Project Server holds the plan data (Tasks, Milestones) & resourcing data (Resources, Timesheets), and then SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) holds the Risks, Issues, Documents and other custom data.

When a project is initially published in Project Server, PWA (Project Web Access) will attempt to provision a new SharePoint subweb. This means Project Server creates a Project Workspace in SharePoint.

The problem I’m witnessing? That even manually creating the workspace results in a single dialog box in which the only text is “Error”.

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18
Jun

The Banking Code of Conduct and liability for internet banking security

It seems that in March 2008 the voluntary banking code that banks in the UK comply with was changed.

Part of this change includes this paragraph:

Online banking
12.9 Online banking is safe and convenient as long as you take a number of simple precautions. Please make sure you follow the advice given below.
* Keep your PC secure. Use up-to-date anti-virus and spyware software and a personal firewall.

And a little further down is this:

Liability for losses
12.11 If you act fraudulently, you will be responsible for all losses on your account. If you act without reasonable care, and this causes losses, you may be responsible for them. (This may apply, for example, if you do not follow section 12.5 or 12.9 or you do not keep to your account’s terms and conditions.)

And there it is in black and white, if you do not follow the advice from the banks then you have not taken ‘reasonable care’ and any losses that you suffer will not be protected by the bank.

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17
Jun

Workflow in SharePoint Project Server templates

Apparently this isn’t as simple as it should be.

The environment:

Project Server 2007 with SharePoint v3. Each Project has a SharePoint subweb as a “Project Workspace”. The Project workspaces are provisioned automatically by Project Server. Project Server applies a template to the new workspaces. The template can be customised but must be derived from the one Project Server originally shipped.

The scenario:

Put workflow into the template so that each provisioned Project workspace starts with a number of pre-defined processes

Shouldn’t be hard right? Well, it was.

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10
Jun

Visual Studio 2008 Extension for SharePoint v3 (WSS and MOSS)

Finally this has been released.

And it passed me by totally.

So much so, that I emailed Alex Malek over at Microsoft to badger him to let me have a copy of the unfinished product so that I could get something done for a rather important client, only to have him respond with the public download URL… doh!

So this blog post is really just to ping the search engines out there in the hope that those who are looking can find. Karma-whore… for sure.

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