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Microsoft Project June 2010 Cumulative Update

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Agenda

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Today’s Webcast

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• Introductions• The purpose for these webcasts• Overview of Cumulative Updates• Engaging Customer Services and Support (CSS)• Project 2007 fixes• Project Server 2007 fixes• Project 2010 fixes• Project Server 2010 fixes• CU Deployment & Links

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Purpose

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• A regularly scheduled time to:• Allow us to give you an overview about the CU to help

facilitate deployment in your environment.• Allow you to ask detailed questions about the fixes that

are in the cumulative update via the Live Meeting Q&A process.

• Here’s the schedule of webcasts:

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Cumulative Updates (CU)

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• The CU is:– An accumulated sets of hotfixes that are

delivered on a defined schedule.• The goals of CUs are to:– Enhance predictability for customers. – Enable scalability to prevent painful backlogs. – Maintain the current high level of quality. – Potentially improve overall response time.

February 11 April 1 May 21 July 11 September 1 October 21 December 11

April 2010 CU1/25/10 - 4/27/10

June 2010 CU3/29/10 - 6/29/10

August 2010 CU5/31/10 - 8/31/10

October 2010 CU8/2/10 - 10/26/10

December 2010 CU9/27/10 - 12/14/10

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Engaging Customer Services and Support

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• Engage CSS for Bugs: 

– Premier Customers – Through organizational escalation processes.  Engage Technical Account Manager for assistance if this is not defined in your organization.

– Professional Customers - http://support.microsoft.com/select/default.aspx?target=assistance&c1=505&

 Note:  Hotfixes are a Premier Level Service Option.  For Professional Customers, we can only submit crashing and data loss bugs for Hotfix.  Anyone can download a hotfix that has been released.  There is a link in the top left corner of the Cumulative Update Release KB Article that you can click to download the Cumulative Update free of charge.

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Project 2007 client

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Project 2007 - KB 2028571

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• 26774 – Merging an XML file into an enterprise project does not merge the enterprise custom field values.

• 26433 – Project crashes if you set a baseline on an inserted project summary task from within a master project and the “To all summary tasks” rollup option is chosen.

• 26468 – The Free Slack calculation on some tasks may be inaccurate until you press F9.

• 26795 – Local flag fields, once saved, are always saved to the server whether or not they are currently being used.

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Project 2007 server

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Project Server 2007 - KB 983312

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• 26787 – December CU regression. An unexpected error occurs while self-assigning team tasks.

• 27036 – Actual work deleted in a timesheet on a date where there is no planned work does not update the "My Task" data after the timesheet is imported.

• 25465 – Import Timesheet does not import custom field changes to My Tasks. By-design; a new TimesheetImported event has been added so that custom field data can be programmatically synchronized.

• 26876 – Start and finish dates of tasks move unexpectedly when accepting updates on completed fixed duration tasks where new remaining work has been added; assignment delay added.

• 26469 – When saving a proposal project, the error "Specify values for all required custom fields" appears even after all the required fields are entered.

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Project Server 2007 - KB 983312

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• 26586 – Rejected updates are constantly re-submitted by users who have not corrected the updates.

• 26718 – Unable to drill into subprojects via Project Center view.

• 26728 – Update to 25042 – assignment actual start date could still get changed.

• 27097 – When updates are accepted, a task with a "finish no earlier than" constraint and at least one non-started assignment with delay may get an earlier start date.

• 26825 – When a Project Web Access user's regional settings locale is set to a value such as Portuguese when editing cost values in a Proposal or Activity project, the value may be multiplied by 100 or may not be able to be saved. For example, the value entered as 10.536.77 upon save may change to 1.053.677,00.

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Project 2010 client

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Project 2010 – KB 2075992

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• 26675 – Project hangs if you use the Replace All function and the to be replaced string contains any of the same characters that the replacement string has.

• 26677 – You may be unable to add new tasks to the Timeline view.

• 26679 – Print and print preview show dependency lines that don’t point to the correct task and point to the left-hand side of the view.

• 26688 – If blank rows are inserted into a project, they may appear in the wrong place when the project is reopened.

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Project 2010 – KB 2075992

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• 26690 – Project may crash if data is pasted from an Excel selection formatted as a table and when choosing to match the destination format paste option.

• 26694 – VBA methods such as FileOpen are not raising errors when appropriate.

• 27055 – When creating a Visual Report you may see a message saying you don’t have access to the database.

• 26459 – Same thing as hotfix 26284 except for Project 2010. When exporting to the XML format, decimal values should always use a period as the decimal separator instead of the character specified by the system regional settings.

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Project 2010 server

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Project Server 2010 – KB 2075990

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• 26673 – Same as hotfix 26339 delivered in April for 2007.  Baseline values on project summary task are not updated on server views when re-published from the client.

• 26678 – Enterprise projects or templates cannot be created if a custom field contains an invalid value.

• 26689 – Forced Aliasing: Cannot switch a project to Auto if it was using an a force-in/force-out alias previously; recalculation will fail

• 26692 – TrackingGuid specified in PSI headers is not respected as the JobGroup ID of resulting Queue jobs.

• 26994 – Upgrader scripts select all SharePoint languages and not just those supported by Project Server causing upgrade to fail.

• 27218 – My Tasks: Updating status for a different user takes a long time for hundreds of tasks.

High-Level Software Update Steps

Resources• Update Center for Microsoft® Office, Office Servers, and Related

Products: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx

• Deploy Project Server 2007/2010 updates TechNet articlesSteps• Preparation

– Complete software update signoff in Test environment– Back up your environment since you cannot un-install an update– Create a single deployment package (slipstream)

• Installation– Windows® SharePoint® Services– Microsoft Office servers (includes Project Server)– Language Packs (if needed)

• SharePoint Server 2007/2010 Language Pack

– Repeat above steps for each server in your farm– Run SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard– Deploy Project desktop update

• Verification– Review ULS logs (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server

extensions\{version}\LOGS)– Verify product version in Add or Remove Programs/Programs and Features– Verify database version

Microsoft Project/Project Server Resources

• Product information and trial download– Main product site www.microsoft.com/project/2010/ – Project Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/project/

• End-User Product Help– Project 2010 Help http://office2010.microsoft.com/project-help – Project Server 2010 Help http://office2010.microsoft.com/project-server-help

• Interactive content – Videos/Sessions/Webcasts – www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/channels/microsoftproject/– www.microsoft.com/events/series/epm.aspx

• Project & Project Server 2010 Demo Image – Download http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9713956 – Hosted Virtual Lab http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9713654

• IT Professional related - TechNet– TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/ProjectServer/ – Admin Blog http://blogs.technet.com/projectadministration/

• Developer related - MSDN® – Developer center http://msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ – Programmability blog http://blogs.msdn.com/project_programmability/

• Got questions? Project Forums!– http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/projectserver2010,projectprofessional

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• Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010– http://sharepoint.microsoft.com

THANK YOU!

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