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Project Server 2007

Documentation

• Migration Guide for Office Project Server 2007 (Word doc)

In the traditional sense, upgrading is often thought of as an "in place" process in which the application's binaries are upgraded from a previous version to a newer version. "Upgrading" to Office Project Server 2007 from a previous version of Project Server is a data migration process, often referred to as a "side-by-side" upgrade.

In this process, Office Project Server 2007 is installed (on the same or a different computer as the previous version of Project Server) and data from the previous version of Project Server is migrated over. There is no actual upgrade of the binaries. The administrator then has the choice of running both versions concurrently or removing the older version.

• Deployment Guide for Office Project Server 2007 (Word doc)

This article describes installing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Beta 2. This requires a general understanding of Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm topologies in addition to the Office Project Server 2007 architecture. This article also prescribes system requirements for your computers prior to installation, and also discusses client configuration information needed to connect to your installation from Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Web Access.

• Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 Overview (Word doc)

Microsoft® Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top-down portfolio management solution that helps organizations to realize their potential by identifying, selecting, managing, and delivering portfolios that best align with their business strategy. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, a key component of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management(EPM) Solution, can help executives gain visibility, insight, and control across their project, program, and application portfolios.

• Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution and Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Product Guide

  This EPM Guide provides an overview of Project Server 2007 including these topics:

• Overview of Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solution
• Managing All Types of Work
• Enhancing Communication and Collaboration
• Leveraging Projects, Enterprise Capabilities, and Customization
• EPM Solution Benefits
• Backwards Compatibility and Interoperability
• Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 Frequently Asked Questions

Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top-down portfolio management solution that helps organizations realize their potential by identifying, selecting, managing, and delivering portfolios that align with their business strategy. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a key component of the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution and helps organizations gain visibility, insight, and control across project, program, and application portfolios.

• Microsoft Project 2007 Server Administration Overview (PowerPoint)

Broad overview of Administrative functions of Project Server 2007, showing the integration with WSS, and highlighting differences with Project Server 2003.

• Project Server 2007 Integration with SharePoint 2007

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 integrates with the core platform and advanced components of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. SharePoint Server 2007 includes several server products and components that are built on the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) platform. Because Project Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, and related products are built on the common SharePoint Products and Technologies platform, developers can use a common set of development tools and techniques to integrate and extend all of the products.

• Microsoft Office Project 2007 SDK

This SDK includes information on the following topics:

• Project 2007 Overview for Developers
• Project Server Interface (PSI) Overview
• Project Server Programmability
• PDS Parity in PSI Web Services
• Project Server Integration
• Custom Project Reporting
• Project Programming References
• PSI Reference Overview
• Project Server Programming Tasks
• MS Office Project 2007 Page
• Project Server 2007: Getting Started with a New Platform for Developers

A good Project Server 2007 introduction, including Project Server 2007 architecture, Project Server Interface, Project Server Events, EPM Reporting, and Project Web Access integration with Windows SharePoint Services, v3.

Here's an excerpt:
"The Project Server Eventing service is the key to extending Project Server functionality. Developers can create event handlers and register them through Project Web Access. Each major business object (CustomFields, CubeAdmin, LookupTable, Project, Reporting, Security, TimeSheet, and so forth) includes multiple events that you can see on the Project Web Access Events page (http://ServerName/ProjectServerName/_layouts/pwa/admin/Events.aspx). Event handlers provide "hooks" for adding new functionality, customizing existing functionality, and integrating with other applications."

• Project Server 2007 FAQ's

Microsoft's answers to Frequently Asked Questions regarding Project Server 2007

Webcasts

• Webcast: Adding Project Management Smarts to Your Applications Using Office Project Server 2007 (Level 200)

 

• Webcast: Architecture Overview of Office Project Server 2007 (Level 100)

Blogs

• Project Server Data Migration - Cheat Sheet

Lidiane Souza provides a helpful checklist of to-do items when migrating your Project Server 2003 data into Project Server 2007.

• Visual Reports

Heather O'Cull describes the new visual reports available in Microsoft Project. She writes:

"Visual Reports is a new feature in Project Standard and Professional that allows you to report on your project’s data in Excel using PivotTables and PivotCharts, and in Visio using a new feature called PivotDiagrams (think fancy WBS charts). Using Visual Reports you can now easily create eye-catching reports that are also informative off data from your project using formats that are familiar to your target audience."

• Migrating from Project Server 2003 to Project Server 2007

From the Project 12 Blog:
"Upgrade is about changing your data in place (i.e. you have Project Server 2003, run upgrade and then you have Project Server 2007) and you can't go back to Project Server 2003. Migration is about taking data from Project Server 2003, fixing things up and then saving it to Project Server 2007.

"At the end of migration, you will have Project Server 2003 and Project Server 2007. Project Server 2003 to Project Server 2007 is a MIGRATION process, not UPGRADE!"


• Top 10 List of new Project Server 2007 Features

Bill Raymond, Microsoft Office Project MVP, describes what he considers to be the top features for Project and Project Server 2007.


• Project Conference 2006 Follow-Up + Hidden Gems from Dieter's ProjBlog

Now that the Project 2006 Conference has wrapped up, Dieter is able to reveal new features available in Project Server 2007.


• The New Project Cache

From Dieter's ProjBlog:
"Project 12 introduces a new client-side cache and caching service. Project Pro interacts directly with the local cache for opens and saves. The caching service then handles moving the changes between the client and Project Server. Project Pro 12 never communicates directly with SQL Server.

"We think that the Project Cache (final naming is TBD) changes the rules of the game. It allows users to have a rich client user experience + the "mobility" advantages of saving to a local file system (try that with a thin client!) with the relatively light network footprint of a web application. Customers no longer need to choose between a great user experience and a low network footprint. You can have both with P12. "


• More on Project Server for Office 12 - Demo Notes

From Steve Richards:
"All Project Server functions are exposed as a set of web services. Just like Office Client interacts with WSS, Project Professional's integration with Project Server is also completely achieved via these web services, which means other clients or server solutions can also be integrated using these web service interfaces."