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Archive: November 17, 2010
Montreal Seminar – EPM / TimeControl
HMS and Proji-Controle will be co-hosting a Live Seminar in Montreal on November 30th. The seminar will show how using TimeControl in conjunction with the Primavera project management system provides an integrated enterprise project management environment that can be used for auditable project tracking purposes such as R&D tax claims, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, DCAA compliance, ARRA Reporting compliance and more.
Find out more about the seminar in the HMS Software Events area or register online for free at the HMS Software/Proji-Controle Seminar Registration page.
Critical Information about the SharePoint Server 2010 October Cumulative Update
Microsoft has recommended that Project Server users not load the current October Cumulative update due to an issue discovered with the SharePoint Cumulative update that is a part of the overall update.
Please see the posting on the SharePoint blog regarding an issue recently discovered with the October CU for SharePoint Server 2010 that also affects Project Server 2010 – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/11/05/critical-information-about-the-sharepoint-server-2010-october-cumulative-update.aspx.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/11/06/details-and-workaround.aspx.
Packages Impacted
The Cumulative Update packages affected are the Server Packages for SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server and Project Server 2010, specifically;
- SharePoint Server Package 2394320
- Project Server Package 2394322
The downloads for both of these packages have been removed from our servers.
If you have already downloaded them you SHOULD NOT install them. They will be republished.
Issue Details
The October Cumulative Update for the packages listed above makes some changes and updates to the user profile database. Unfortunately there are certain situations where this update does not complete as expected and leaves the update in an inconsistent state. This causes issues with several SharePoint features that use the User Profile Application such as MySites, People and Expertise Search & Ratings.
For details of the workaround please see the SharePoint blog above.
This issue affects the SharePoint features that use the User Profile Application
Microsoft Project and Project Server October Cumulative Update
Project and Project Server and SharePoint October 2007 Cumulative Update
Updates for Project Server 2007
This include a number of fixes, so Microsoft strongly recommends that you test this in a test environment based on your production environment before putting this fix live in production.
The article below provides information on how to deploy the Project Server Cumulative Update.
Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239177.aspx
Service Pack 2 for both WSS and Office Servers 2007 are required for this Cumulative Update. The KB articles below provide information on how to download and install SP2 if you have not already done so.
Note: The SP2 Requirement is new as of the August 2010 Project and Project Server 2007 Cumulative Updates.
Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338
Description of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 and of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334
The Server 2007 CU is released in two different versions. The first version is in Individual Packages specific to a particular product like WSS and Project Server. These are smaller downloads but they do not include language packs or patches for other products so patches for those products would have to be downloaded and installed separately.
The second version is the Server Rollup Packages. This is a set of two rollup packages which contains all the fixes for WSS, Project Server and MOSS. These packages should be used when MOSS is part of the deployment and/or you have language packs installed. The Server Rollup Packages are much larger (~100MB each) but they will greatly simplify MOSS patch deployment.
You can read about the fixes included in the October CU from the following articles:
- Server Rollup Packages: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (WSS server-package): October 26, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2412268
- Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update server hotfix package (MOSS server-package): October 26, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2412267
- Individual Product Packages: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (sts-x-none.msp): October 26, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2412258
- Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp-x-none.msp; Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp): October 26, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2412269
- Description of the Office Project 2007 hotfix package (project-x-none.msp): October 26, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2412260
- Client Installation: In order to install this hotfix, you will need to have Microsoft Project 2007 SP2 installed on the client.
- Description of Office Project 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of Office Project Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953326
NOTE: Microsoft strongly recommends testing within a NON-Production environment prior to rollout.