Microsoft Project and Project Server 2007/2010 Update information

“October Cumulative Update” (fixes) available for Project and Project Server

Cumulative update packages for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and for 2007 Microsoft Office servers: October 28, 2008

KB: 958847: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958847

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): October 28, 2008

KB: 958138 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958138

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=958138Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): October 28, 2008

KB: 957696: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957696

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957696

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: October 28, 2008

KB: 957691: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957691

(not published yet)

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957691

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): October 28, 2008

KB: 957693 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957693

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957693

Project Server Service Pack 1: Dec 11, 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en

December 2008 Cumulative Fixes

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): December 16, 2008 / KB: 959643

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959643

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959643

Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): December 16, 2008 / KB: 960313

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960313

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=960313

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): December 16, 2008 / KB: 959644

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959644

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959644

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): December 16, 2008 / KB: 959637

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959637

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959637

Related links:

* Announcing the release of the October Cumulative Update for Project and Project Server 2007

<http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/10/29/announcing-the-release-of-the-october-cumulative-update-for-project-and-project-server-2007.aspx>

* Announcing the release of the August Cumulative Update for Project and Project Server 2007

<http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/09/26/announcing-the-release-of-the-august-cumulative-update-for-project-and-project-server-2007.aspx>

* Upcoming Microsoft Project 2007 and Project Server 2007 Service Pack 2

<http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/10/25/upcoming-microsoft-project-2007-and-project-server-2007-service-pack-2.aspx>

* Cumulative updates are available from the Microsoft Office team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953878>

* Project Server TechCenter

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/projectserver/default.aspx> (TechNet)

March 2009 Cumulative Fixes

Guidance on loading Project Server 2007 Cumulative Hotfixes

Description of March 2009 Project Server Hotfixes

Download March 2009 Project Server Hotfixes

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package (MOSS server-package): February 24, 2009

Download of the SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package (MOSS server-package): February 24, 2009

Service Pack 2 (April, 2009)

Project Service Pack 2 High Level Benefits

Project Standard and Project Professional

• The scheduling engine, Active Cache, and Gantt charts all have improvements.
• There is additional reliability with earlier versions of the .mpp format.

Project Server

• Better memory management in the queue service.
• Performance to certain database table indexes is improved.
• Resource plans, build team, cost resources, and the server scheduling engine have improved.

Once your farm has been properly updated the new SP2 product version will be: 12.0.6422.1000 (please refer to the TechNet deployment article for instructions on how to verify an installation).

Getting Ready for Project Server 2010

As part of the SP2 release Microsoft announced the following requirements for the next release of SharePoint and Project Server: Windows Server 2008 and 64 bit.

Microsoft will be publishing guidance on how to upgrade your existing Project Server 2007 farm to Windows Server 2008 64 bit in the coming weeks on TechNet.

Expect full system requirements for Project Server 2010 at a later date.

Microsoft expects to release a Service Pack 2 for Project Portfolio Server 2007 by June 2009

April 2009 Cumulative Fixes

Please refer to this TechNet article for deployment guidance: Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007)

After applying the April CU, the database version should be: 12.0.6504.5000 (see article above for instructions on how to verify the installation).

Please refer to this post from the Office Sustain Engineering team for more information about SP2 and the April CU: FAQ concerning Service Pack 2 and the Cumulative Updates for April 2009 for the 2007 Microsoft® Office System and Microsoft Office servers

Knowledge Base Articles and Downloads

Related links:

Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP2

If you are using Project Portfolio Server 2007, then you’ll be happy to hear that Service Pack 2 is now available.

Key new features:

• Support for SQL 2008
• Support for Portfolio Server on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Plus:

• Over 40 fixes which are described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971363

Go to the Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP2 download page to access the service pack. If you have trouble with that page, get the download directly from here here.

A description of the service pack can be found at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971205

Project and Project Server August 2009 Cumulative Update

Microsoft has released a new cumluative update for Project 2007 and Project Server 2007. dated August 25, 2009. Information on the key elements is linked below. See Microsoft’s guidance on deploying cumulative updates for more information on how to deploy these updates if they’re applicable to you. The links below include both descriptions and download links so you can see if fixes you require are included in this cumulative update.

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for August 2009

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): August 25, 2009

Download of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): August 25, 2009

Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): August 25, 2009

Download of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): August 25, 2009

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Sts.msp): August 25, 2009

Download of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Sts.msp): August 25, 2009

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Coreserver.msp): August 25, 2009

Download of the SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Coreserver.msp): August 25, 2009

Project and Project Server February 2010 Cumulative Update

Project and Project Server June 2010 Cumulative Update

• Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239177.aspx

We strongly recommend that you install WSS and Office Servers 2007 Service Pack 2. The KB articles below provide information on how to download and install SP2 if you have not already done so.

• 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
• 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

The server patches require that WSS and Office Servers 2007 SP1 be installed. For clarity, SP1 is required and SP2 is strongly recommended. Here are the links to the SP1 Server Patches for your convenience:

• Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936984/en-us
• How to deploy the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and Office Server Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945013/en-us

The Server 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 (~200MB each) but they will greatly simplify MOSS patch deployment.

You can read about the fixes included in the June CU from the following articles:

Note: There may be a few day delay before all of the articles are published.

Server Rollup Packages:

• Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (WSS server-package): June 29, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983311
• Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update server hotfix package (MOSS server-package): June 29, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983310/

Individual Product Packages:

• Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (sts-x-none.msp): June 29, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983307
• Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp-x-none.msp; Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp): June 29, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983312
• Description of the Office Project 2007 hotfix package (project-x-none.msp): June 29, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028571

Client Installation:

In order to install this hotfix, you will need to have Microsoft Project 2007 SP1 installed on the client. The article at the URL below contains information on how install download and install SP1 should you not have it installed already.

Note: We strongly recommend that you install Project 2007 SP2 from the information earlier in the article.

• Description of Project 2007 Service Pack 1 and of Project Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937154/en-us

Once we know that SP1 is installed, you will install the hotfix by performing the following steps:

NOTE: Microsoft strongly recommends testing within a NON-Production environment prior to rollout.

1. Download the hotfix from the KB Article above (KB 2028571).
2. Extract the patch package by running the .exe file that you downloaded.
3. Run the extracted .exe file to apply the patch to your Project Professional/Standard SP1 (or preferably SP2) client.

Project and Project Server August 2010 Cumulative Update

Project / Project Server 2007

Individual Product Packages:

•Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (sts-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276469

•Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp-x-none.msp; Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276475

•Description of the Office Project 2007 hotfix package (project-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2289175

Server Rollup Packages:

◦Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (WSS server-package): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276474

◦Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update server hotfix package (MOSS server-package): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276472

Project / Project Server2010

Individual Product Packages:

•Description of the SharePoint Foundation 2010 hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2266423

•Description of the SharePoint Server 2010 hotfix package (spswfe-x-none.msp, pplwfe-x-none.msp, osrchwfe-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276339

Note: If you load the Project Server 2010 hotfix 2276341 you will also need to load at least 2266423 listed above. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/09/17/project-server-2010-applied-august-cu-and-having-problems-with-jsgrid.aspx

•Description of the Project Server 2010 hotfix package (Wosrv-x-none.msp, Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp, Osrv-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276341

•No August update for Microsoft Project 2007 Standard or Professional 2010

Server Rollup Packages:

•Description of the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (SharePoint Foundation server-package): August 31, 2010 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2352346

•Description of the SharePoint Server 2010 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (MOSS server-package): August 31, 2010 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2352342

Note: Does not include Project Server patch

•Description of the SharePoint Server 2010 and Project Server 2010 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (MOSS server-package, Project server-package): August 31, 2010 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2352345

Project and Project Server and SharePoint October 2007 Cumulative Update

Project and 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.