Decommision member from Resource Pool

Hello,
My resource pool currently has two members. Lets call them Member A, Member B. I will be adding a 3rd member, Member C to the pool. The certificates have been exported and imported throughout the members.
My question is, in the near future, I will remove Member A from the pool, leaving only B and C.
How does SCOM handle this scenario? All machines that have their certificates bound the Member A, they will more than likely complain about a heartbeat, but with the resource pool having two other available members, will all the machines that reported
to Member A, will they automatically re-create their certificates to either Member B and/or C?
Thanks.

Hi,
I think it won’t affect the certificates when removing member A from resources pool. Member B and C will take over the jobs from member A. However that will change the membership type to manual. If you add a management server to a management group when the
membership type of the resource pools is manual, you must add the management server to the resource pool manually.
Niki Han
TechNet Community Support

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Project Server 2013 - Remove user from resource pool via sync

Hello everyone,
has anyone managed to configure their Project Server 2013 box with a resource pool sync that will actually remove user from the resource pool (disable "User can be assigned as resource" or deactivate users) when the user is removed from the AD
group(s)?
Setup: Single box, SQL 2012 SP1, SharePoint/Project Server 2013 + PU March + CU April. 2 PWA instances, 1 in SharePoint and 1 in Project permission mode. Tried on 2 different machines (different setup, accounts, domains).
Proceedings:
Create AD user U, AD group G. Add U to G.
Go to PWA, setup resource pool sync with G, sync.
U is now in the resource pool, has no PWA permissions.
Remove U from G. Resync resoure pool.
U is still in resource pool, still a resource, still active, can still be assigned as resource.
Adding U back to G an repeating the whole spiel with a resource pool and a PWA group sync of G will result in U being added and removed from the user list (as expected), and U being added but not removed from the resource pool.
Having read
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg982985.aspx and
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg750243.aspx, there does not seem to be an omission on my part.
The first article states:
Note:
The corresponding Project Server User Account is not deactivated based on this synchronization. If the same Active Directory user is configured to synchronize with a Project Server security group, the Project Server user account will be inactivated when
that synchronization occurs. For more information, see
Best practices to configure Active Directory groups for Enterprise Resource Pool synchronization in Project Server 2013.
Unfortunately, this deactivation either does not seem to occur even with a PWA group sync or I misunderstood the article.
So, did anyone manage to setup their resource pool sync in a way, that new resource will be added, but also be removed from the resource pool?
Kind regards,
Adrian

Hi Adrian,
you tried to sync the same AD group that you used for the resource pool sync also with a Project Server permission group?
And on removal of the user of the AD group the project user/resource is not deactivated? Only removed from the group
Regards
Christoph
Hi Christoph,
even though I might have tried that before, I tried it again in several constellations. It didn't change anything. The the user will be properly added to and removed from the PWA group whenever I remove them from the AD group, the use will also stay active
(but cannot logon without permissions). However, the user will always remain in the resource pool, i.e. the "User can be assigned as resource." checkbox will remain unless it is cleared manually.
Having re-read the technet articles, none of the scenarios actually seem to descibe or address the process that I require, or maybe I'm just misunderstanding. Let me just try to outline the core issue:
Add user to AD group. Sync AD group with resource pool. User is now a PWA resource and PWA user.
Remove user from AD group, but do not deactivate/delete user from AD.
(Magic happens!)
User cannot be assigned as ressource in PWA.
So, is there anything to make this step 3 happen, or is it just not possible to sync users out of the resource pool anymore unless they are deleted/deactivated in AD?
Kind regards,
Adrian

Resource Pool Heartbeat Failure from All Management Server Resource Pool Watcher

Hi,
In my environment, I add another SCOM 2012 R2 to existing management group. (old SCOM is 2012 R2 ->SCOM1)
We have one SMS provider in SCOM1, after added SCOM2 in the Event Viewer we have Event ID
21400. I googled and in the Administration tab for Notification Pool and AD Assignment Pool change the member ship form Automatic to Manual and remove SCOM2 from those, finally Error 21400 is resolved. But every hours in the active alerts shows
Resource Pool Heartbeat Failure from All Management Server Resource Pool Watcher.
Another problem is :
in the active alerts select a critical or warning or information in the Alert Details shows in just SCOM2:
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Hi,
Based on my research, when management
server running windows server 2008 operating system, we may experience Random
Resource Pool
Heartbeat Failures.
Did you add a new management server with windows
server 2012 O.S?
Please also try to restart operation manager services related and check the result.
Regards,
Yan Li
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Questions regarding risk register, resource pool, reports and KPI

I am going on a requirement gathering activity today about a new MS Project Server project. I have knowledge of SharePoint but my knowledge of Project Server is very limited. Following will be my topic of discussion with client. Can you please tell me what
kind of questions can I ask about them? I want to gather as much requirement as possible from client.
Some of the question I can think of are:
1. What fields will be there in each register?
2. What kind of permission do you want on each register? For e.g. will each register will be publicly viewable to all users or not?
3. How many KPIs and Dashboards do you need?
Topics
• Project Register
• Issue Register
• Risk Register
• Decision Register
• Invoice Register
• Change Request Register
• Deliverable Register
• Resource Pool
• Reports and KPIs

As You know Project Server sits on SharePoint. If you know which version of Project server your client want.
Then you can ask some question(I am giving you list of few question) like:
1. Approx No of users
group and security related questions like which kind of permission they want for Project manager, team member, resource manager etc.
2 Approx no of Project per year
3. Avg no of task per project
4. Project level Custom field
5. Task level Custom Field
6. Resource Level Custom field
7. Project, resource or task level of custom view
8. Any demand Management workflow
9. back up and restore strategy.
10. any Issue or risk associated with project and mitigation plans
11. drivers or strategy for Portfolio management
12. If any change need to be done in EPM environment how you guys can handle it.
13. for Delivery you can split your project in phases in which first phase will contain installation and basic configuration then report development, then Custom development, then Training and support
14. which kind of report they want (SSRS, Excel baed, Performance point, dashboard, Power pivot)
15. for reports what would be the KPI
16. Tracking method, Timsheet usage, status Reports
17. whether they will use default Project site or customized project site
18. Enterprise Project template for Business unit.
19. Department specific reports.
20 .for infra you can ask (Redundancy, server performance high availability )
etc.
Please group all these as per our need.
kirtesh

Critical error All management server resource pool

I just receive critical error: All management server resource pool in scom 2012 management console.
Alert detail:
Alert subscription data source module encountered errors while running: Alert subscription data source module was unable to find alerts that match the subscription because of database errors.
The following error(s) were encountered:
Exception Message: ExecuteScalar requires an open and available Connection. The connection's current state is closed.
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Subscription3f818422_f4a1_42aa_b1b3_8bc14eb54cd8
Instance name: Alert Notification Subscription Server
Instance ID: {E07E3FAB-53BC-BC14-1634-5A6E949F9230}
Management group: SCOM_2012
What is problem and how to fix it ? I haven't changed any setting in scom !!

Only found some of error and warning in operation manager event log.
Error:
Source: Health Service Modules
Event ID: 22406
Task Category: NOne
The PowerShell script failed with below exception
System.Management.Automation.CmdletInvocationException: The following error occurred while loading the extended type data file:
Microsoft.PowerShell, C:\Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2012\Powershell\OperationsManager\.\OM10.CoreCommands\Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Core.Cmdlets.Types.ps1xml : File skipped because it was already present from "Microsoft.PowerShell".
At line:8 char:66
+ if (!(Get-Module OperationsManager)) {Import-module <<<< $SCOMModulePath}
 at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
 at System.Management.Automation.PipelineNode.Execute(Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)
 at System.Management.Automation.StatementListNode.ExecuteStatement(ParseTreeNode statement, Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)
Script Name: Discover Agent Versions
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: ManagementGroupDiscoveryAgentVersions
Instance name: Operations Manager Management Group
Instance ID: {6B1D1BE8-EBB4-B425-08DC-2385C5930B04}
Management group: SCOM_2012
Error:
Source: HealthService
Event ID: 15002
Task Category: Pool Manager
The pool member cannot send a lease request to acquire ownership of managed objects assigned to the pool because half
or fewer members of the pool acknowledged the most recent initialization check request. The pool member will continue
to send an initialization check request.
Management Group: SCOM_2012
Management Group ID: {56D0B0FE-FB03-2A6C-E3F6-54287D96855D}
Pool Name: AD Assignment Resource Pool
Pool ID: {529CF61E-A357-5AED-73CC-81D48E4327CA}
Pool Version: 7607127134982980644
Number of Pool Members: 2
Number of Observer Only Pool Members: 1
Number of Instances: 1
Error:
Source: HealthService
Event ID: 15002
Task Category: Pool Manager
The pool member cannot send a lease request to acquire ownership of managed objects assigned to the pool because half
or fewer members of the pool acknowledged the most recent initialization check request. The pool member will continue
to send an initialization check request.
Management Group: SCOM_2012
Management Group ID: {56D0B0FE-FB03-2A6C-E3F6-54287D96855D}
Pool Name: Notifications Resource Pool
Pool ID: {3F9F97EA-E584-B0EE-A4C9-78A86FB4F21F}
Pool Version: 7607127134982980644
Number of Pool Members: 2
Number of Observer Only Pool Members: 1
Number of Instances: 1
Error:
Source: HealthService
Event ID: 15002
Task Category: Pool Manager
The pool member cannot send a lease request to acquire ownership of managed objects assigned to the pool because half
or fewer members of the pool acknowledged the most recent initialization check request. The pool member will continue
to send an initialization check request.
Management Group: SCOM_2012
Management Group ID: {56D0B0FE-FB03-2A6C-E3F6-54287D96855D}
Pool Name: All Management Servers Resource Pool
Pool ID: {4932D8F0-C8E2-2F4B-288E-3ED98A340B9F}
Pool Version: 7607127134982980644
Number of Pool Members: 2
Number of Observer Only Pool Members: 1
Number of Instances: 116
Warning:
Source: Health Service Modules
Event ID: 10103
Task Category: None
The Windows Event Log Provider has resumed processing the Operations Manager event log on computer 'HKWOMM01.ap.zurich.com' after recovering from errors.
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.CM.AEM.Modules.EventCollection
Instance name: HKWOMM01.ap.zurich.com
Instance ID: {BF86169C-4A71-C728-9649-338260E86093}
Management group: SCOM_2012
Warning:
Source: Health Service Modules
Event ID: 10103
Task Category: None
In PerfDataSource, could not resolve counter instance OpsMgr DW Writer Module, Avg. Batch Processing Time, ms, All Instances. Module will not be unloaded.
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.CollectionRule.Performance.Writer.AvgBatchProcessingTime
Instance name: HKWOMM01.ap.zurich.com
Instance ID: {BF86169C-4A71-C728-9649-338260E86093}
Management group: SCOM_2012
Warning:
Source: Health Service Modules
Event ID: 10103
Task Category: None
In PerfDataSource, could not resolve counter instance OpsMgr DW Writer Module, Batches/sec, All Instances. Module will not be unloaded.
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.CollectionRule.Performance.Writer.BatchesPerSecond
Instance name: HKWOMM01.ap.zurich.com
Instance ID: {BF86169C-4A71-C728-9649-338260E86093}
Management group: SCOM_2012
Warning:
Source: Health Service Modules
Event ID: 10103
Task Category: None
In PerfDataSource, could not resolve counter instance LogicalDisk, Current Disk Queue Length,
\\?\Volume{9470dbf8-09e8-11e1-887f-806e6f6e6963}. Module will not be unloaded.
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDisk.CurrentDiskQueueLength.Collection
Instance name:
\\?\Volume{9470dbf8-09e8-11e1-887f-806e6f6e6963}
Instance ID: {80A7A920-B571-987C-9B3B-DE2164998AB9}
Management group: SCOM_2012
Warning:
Source: Health Service Modules
Event ID: 10103
Task Category: None
In PerfDataSource, could not resolve counter instance OpsMgr DW Synchronization Module, Avg. Batch Processing Time, ms, All Instances. Module will not be unloaded.
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.CollectionRule.Performance.Synchronization.AvgBatchProcessingTime
Instance name: b9e5cd4c-1b78-4530-b93f-69806d14d7f3
Instance ID: {E6A569EF-6527-2B26-8345-2E16F0979064}
Management group: SCOM_2012

Network Resource Pool design query

Current Scenario - Two physical sites - Two SCOM Management servers assigned to perform Network Monitoring.
Currently the proposed configuration is to have two separate Network Resource pools so that the network devices in each site is explicitly managed by the network resource pool local to that site. The question is, if one of the sites or network resource
pools becomes unavailable, how do I continue to manage all the devices by failover?
Alternatively, and I may have answered my own question here, if I create one single network resource pool and encompass both SCOM Servers in that pool with an explicit discovery rule assigned to both servers to cover all network devices, that would provide
the resiliency I need, but would the servers on each physical segment still manage the network devices local to them?
Also, I am aware that it is possible to assign an explicit rule to each server within a resource pool. In that scenario, if one of the servers in the resource pool becomes unavailable, does that mean that the network devices monitored by that server are
no longer monitored?
Any advice on which solution to implement would be much appreciated. I understand that there are pro's and cons to all of the scenarios that I have listed. Any links to some more in-depth reading would also be appreciated.
Eddied

First, to your last question, if the network device discovery server goes down, this doesn't affect monitoring at all. The devices will not be undiscovered, and monitoring will continue to happen. The discovery server is completely separate from the monitoring
resource pool. The discovery server does not even need to be a member of the monitoring resource pool at all - it could be some other management server that doesn't actually do any network monitoring.
If you are using true management server (not gateways), then I assume there are no port restrictions communicating to any of the devices in any site or subnet. This means you can simply create a resource pool containing 2 or more management servers, and
do all network monitoring from that resource pool. The resource pool manages which server is actively monitoring which device. I wish I had more information into the algorithm that calculates this under the hood, but I don't know. To address your concern,
though, the network monitoring resource pool is inherently HA - when one MS goes down, load will (or should) be transferred to other members of the pool automatically.
I hope that helps a little more than my previous response.
Jonathan Almquist | SCOMskills, LLC (http://scomskills.com)

PowerCLI script to get Resource Pool Path

Hi
I was wondering if someone could help me, I am looking for a PowerShell script that would give me the specific path of a specific Resource Pool, but I need to base the filter on the path and not the name of the resource pool.
The reason for this is that our guys created a "Infrastructure Services" resource pool in 4 different places so when I query the resource pool I get 4 results but in 4 different paths.
Now what I would like to do is when I create the VM from PowerShell I would need to place the VM into one of the 4 resource pools but specifying a specific path.
Is this possible and could someone please give me an example code for this.
I hope this makes sense :)
Thanks in advance

Hi Ravi0211,
The script below may be helpful for you, which can filter the process based on the property "idprocess" and the services based on the service "name":
$pids=@()
$output=@()
$output1=@()
get-content d:\processid.txt|foreach{
$pids+=$_} #store the processid as an array
Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process | foreach{
if ($pids -contains $_.idprocess){#filter the processid listed in the file d:\processid.txt
$Obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject
$Obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name idprocess -Value $_.idprocess
$Obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Memory -Value $_.WorkingSetPrivate
$output+=$obj}
$services = get-content d:\service.txt
Foreach($service in $services){
Get-service | foreach{
If ($_.name –like “*$service*”){#filter the service based on the service name stored in d:\service.txt
$Obj1 = New-Object -TypeName PSObject
$Obj1 | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Service-Name -Value $_.name
$Obj1 | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Service-Status -Value $_.status
$output1+=$obj1}
$output
$output1
I hope this helps.

Is there a limit of how many resources can be shared via a single Resource Pool in Project 2010 Professional standalone?

We have a single master project resource pool of over 150 resources that are shared across let's say 10-15 sub projects or sharer files.
We are using Microsoft Project Professional (standalone no project server)
Are you aware of any limitations outside of project server with resource pool and sharing, or should we be using Project server (as I have read a lot of articles about resource pool sharing working better in project server)
I'd like to get clarification on:
1. I read that the calendars for resources (of which there could be many shift patterns etc.) should always be created in the master project only, not in the sharer files. In my testing I see that a shared resource also brings the additional calendars from
the Master Project file - and can be chosen in the calendar column from Resource sheet.
2. Each sharer file can have it's own specific project calendar, but the resource calendar (used by the assigned resources from the pool) will drive the scheduling (as per normal), unless;
3. A specific task has a 'Task Calendar' applied to it AND "scheduling ignores resource calendars" is ticked.
I am trying to find an article that addresses, in detail, the limitations or 'look out fors' in this area. I have found plenty about how to create and share resources, but this is more troubleshooting.
Any advice or direction that can be given would be appreciated. Thanks.

No limit to resources, but linked master and resource pools are at high risk of file corruption if you rename, over-write or move a linked file without removing it from the master and pool first. Files will corrupt, its when not if.
Master files should never have any resources or tasks in them, only inserted projects.
I much prefer creating master files with the Link option deselected. This copies all data and consolidates resource info (so no pool needed). I record a macro to create new masters each week. This method has no corruption risk.
Your alternative now is to experiment with Project Server. By far the best way to prototype a system is to get Project Online through Microsoft, ProjectHosts or Bemo. It will give you access to a vanilla project server very quickly and cost for a few months
testing is trivial for a few users.
If you go ahead with a full implementation I strongly recommend getting a qualified Project Server partner to help you implement the full system.
Rod Gill
Author of the one and only Project VBA Book
www.project-systems.co.nz

Project Server 2010 - Active Directory Enterprise Resource Pool Synchronization limitations

Greetings again.
I have a quick question about the limitations of Active Directory Enterprise Resource Pool Synchronization. Specifically, what has your experience
been with extremely large numbers of users (10k plus). Is anyone aware of a
practical limit of users in your AD group you would recommend when using the
Schedule Synchronization feature on a nightly or weekly basis?
There is a caveat to this question however. The client has decided (perhaps for some misinformed reasons) to allow access for every user, to every
project site, within their PWA environment. They’ve selected the View Project Site option within the
Categories for the Team Members PWA Group for which 90% of their intended users reside. So when we ran a couple test syncs in DEV with a smaller AD group of about 8,000 users, the sync understandably
lasted upwards of 18 hours. Obviously unacceptable for a PROD environment on a nightly basis and not necessarily ideal for a weekly sync either.
Experience in addition to documents like these, “Best
practices for managing a large number of resources in Project Server 2010” tell me that we are way over the practical limit of a scheduled resource pool synchronization...IF
the client really desires that all users access all their sites. But before I submit my recommendations, I wanted to check with the community just in case others may have found a way to synchronize large numbers of users (10k plus) on a nightly or weekly
basis, within a reasonable time frame AND allowed all users to access all sites within PWA.
What do you think?
As always, thanks for your help.
Chris Addis - MCTS

Hello Hrishi.
My delayed response has been due to a large amount of testing we have been performing on this particular topic. Here is an update, please feel free to provide feedback.
We went back to testing and spent more time reviewing the documents:
Best practices for managing a large number of resources in Project Server 2010 and
SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits. Our team interpreted those documents as saying, 1,000 security
scopes per site is a recommended limit. It does not say it’s a hard limit, just a recommended limit. “When the recommended unique security scope boundaries are exceeded, performance issue can occur.”
So we decided to perform some tests (31 in total) to try and get a gage of what we are seeing.
We needed to establish a baseline first. So we performed a series of 23 Active Directory Resource Pool Synchronizations with various settings in a clean, Out of the Box, environment in order to see some consistent numbers. Here is it’s summary:
Our AD group of 8,000 users took about 32 minutes, on average, every time to sync. The difference between the first sync and last sync differed only by 1-3 minutes.
Adding 40 project sites increased the average sync time from 32 to 120 minutes.
Adding 100 users to each of those 40 project sites, did not increase the sync times.
One setting (identified at this time) reduced the synchronization time. It was the
Project Site Permissions check box found within the Project Web App > Server Settings > Project Site Provisioning Settings area. By deselecting this check box we reduced or synchronization time back to the 32 minute
average.
The View Project Site check box within the Project Web App > Server Settings > Manage Groups > Team Members group had no apparent effect on the sync times besides what we had gleaned from the Microsoft documentation.
Naturally, this left us with a problem. As I’m sure you know, by deselecting the check box (Project Site Permissions), our project sites are now (figuratively speaking) orphans with no connection to the parent site. This generates
a new set of issues. For example:
Newly created project sites cannot be accessed by the owner and team members. They will require someone like the farm admin to come in behind them and add the intended users to the project site along with their required permissions.
All current and futures sites will no longer have users added via the standard method of building a team and publishing the project, but will have to be added manually.
You can use the Synchronize option found within Project Web App > Server Settings > Project Sites page, but that kinda defeats the purpose. It would require constant updating on a per site basis to keep up with
PM changes. Not very sensible, but it does work.
With this baseline information, we moved our tests into our DEV environment which somewhat mimics our PROD environment. This environment has 352 project sites and we performed 8 tests. This is where we had some large sync time numbers.
Here is the DEV test summary:
With the Project Site Permissions check box cleared, our AD group of 8,000 users took on average 30 minutes to sync. This was in line with our baseline times. With the exception of one test sync that took 99 minutes to complete.
That anomaly is acquiescent with what I’ve seen over the years. Sometimes syncs do some unusual things.
With the Project Site Permissions check box selected, our AD group of 8,000 users took on average 690 minutes (11.5 hours) to sync. Unacceptable of course.
So here’s what we’ve learned when dealing with extremely large numbers of active directory users in your Resource Pool sync:
We did not see a decrease in subsequent sync times after the initial Active Directory Resource Pool Synchronization as some might expect.
Our attempt to decrease sync time via the option of removing the View Project Sites was not successful. (Unless we interpreted Microsoft's document incorrectly.)
However, our interpretation of the recommended software boundaries and limits of SharePoint Server 2010 as it pertains to security scopes per site at 1,000, appears to be correct.
Using the option of clearing the Project Site Permissions does produce a reduction in AD sync time, but at a cost segregating your project sites and thus the creation of new processes of maintaining them.
I’ll remind others that these results are particular to our environments, there may still be exceptions yet to discover. Others may see numbers contrary to ours.
The biggest surprise to some members on our team (myself excluded) was that we did not see a reduced sync time after any of our initial syncs. Some are under the impression that after your initial sync, you should see reduced sync times. I haven’t
found that to be the absolute case in all situations, just in some situations. The reason for this still eludes me. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I’ll let this sit a bit longer, but if no one disagrees with the results, I think we have our answer:
The number of project sites directly affects your Active Directory Resource Pool Synchronizations if you are using the
Project Site Permissions option. If you plan on synchronizing over 1,000 users
and you have a large number of project sites, proceed with the knowledge that you may have performance issues and long sync times.
As always, I’d love to hear from you or others just in case I’m missing something.
Chris Addis - MCTS

MS Project Very Slow and Project Files Large when Using Shared Resource Pool

Hello,
We are using MS Project 2010 Professional in our organization and using a shared resource pool so we can easily identify resource conflicts. When we started this process many months ago the resource pool worked great. Now that we have nearly
all of our projects (~40) using the resource pool, it has become essentially unusable. Each project file that is sharing the resource pool is 12 MB or greater in file size, and most of the project files contain less than 100 lines. Saving any file
takes ~4 minutes. As a result, many of the resource managers and project managers are starting to avoid using MS Project which is undermining our original intent.
Any thoughts on what we could try to regain the usability, make the file sizes smaller, improve save times, etc.? Will MS Project Server fix all of these issues?
Thanks,
Josh

If any of your PMs renamed, moved or over-wrote their project file whilst linked to the Resource Pool or a master, then the file may well have corrupted itself or the pool or both. With 40 files, you can guarantee one or more PMs will do one of the above,
so file corruption is a when, not if (2days or 2 years or more).
For 40 projects Project Server or any solution that copies data to a database so the resource data can be consolidated is needed. Project Server is not a simple application, it's a full server and requires proper training and processes to add value. And
it needs configuring by someone who knows what they're doing!
In the mean time try unattaching all project files from the pool, then create a new blank pool and re-attach.You will also need to File, Save as to repair each project file if needed. For bad corruption save as to a .xml format then re-import to a blank
project.
Or, create a new master each time by inserting all projects into a new blank project, but deselecting the Link option. All tasks are then copied and the resource data consolidated. Record a macro to make creating this very quick and easy (provided your network
isn't too slow).
Rod Gill <a href="http://www.project-systems.co.nz/project-vba-book/index.html/">The one and only Project VBA Book</a> <a href="http://www.project-systems.co.nz/"> Rod
Gill Project Management</a>

Resource Management of Shared Resource Pool at the Project Level

I am having difficulty figuring out how to implement our resource management process. Currently we have one "Resource Pool" project that has all the shared resources. It is connected to both a "master portfolio" plan that has some task
detail in it and other individual project plans that have their own WBS (for larger projects).
The difficulty arises because we want to do resource allocation at a project level, but the resource usage view shows the WBS/task level detail. I've tried grouping the resources assignments by resource and then project, but since everything is
in the "Resource Pool" project, they all group under that project. I've tried adding the "Project" field and it does show as the source project, but it doesn't group on that field, but rather the "Resource Pool" project
only.
How can I see resource allocation/usage at just the project level so our managers can do planning, negotiation, and re-allocation on a periodic basis with one simple view?
My best current idea is to disconnect all the sub-tasks from the sharer, eliminate the WBS below the project level in the master plan and attach resources at that single line project in that master plan. Then, we would have to manually alter the "Max"
available time in the individual sub-plans as we altered allocations. That essentially disconnects individual plans from both the master plan and the shared resource pool.
Is there a better way?

Mark,
Yeah, I think there is a better way. Having a linked structure the contains both a pool file and a dynamic master is tenuous enough (i.e. prone to corruption), but if you start disconnecting from the pool and and messing with the master, you will most certainly
invite trouble.
But here is an approach that might work. I tested it on a sample pool file with two sharer files and I think it might give you what you want.
1. First, either manually copy or use VBA to copy the contents of the Project field to a custom text field in each sharer file
2. In the pool file display the Resource Usage view
3. Create a group that first groups on the Resource Name and then on the Text1 field, and select "group assignments, not resource"
4. Change the Text1 group field to be "assignment"
Does that give you what you want?
To help visualize, here is a screenshot of my test file. After grouping I applied a filter to Text1 with the option to also show summary tasks:
John

Failed to obtain/create connection from connection pool after redeploy

I have a web application (.war) that uses a jdbc connection pool. The application works fine, however after I redeploy it using the administration console I get "Failed to obtain/create connection from connection pool [ Datavision_Pool ]. Reason : null" followed by "Error allocating connection : [Error in allocating a connection. Cause: null]" from javax.enterprise.resource.resourceadapter and I am forced to restart the instance. I am running Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 (build b58g-fcs)
using a connection pool to a Microsoft SQL 2000 database using inet software's JDBC drivers. I need to be able to redeploy applications without having to restart the instance. Any help is appreciated.

I have turned on some additional diagnostics and found out some answers and a work-around, but I think that there may be a bug in the way JDBC connection pool classes are loaded. The actual error was a null pointer in the JDBC driver class in the perpareStatement method. The only line in this method is "return factory.createPreparedStatement( this , sql );" and the only possible NPE would be if the factory was null, which should be impossible because it is a static variable and it is initialized when the class is loaded. The problem occurs because we deploy the JDBC driver .jar file within our .war file, for use when a client doesn't have or want to use connection pooling. Apparently, the connection pool must have picked up some of these classes and when the .war was redeployed, the reference to the factory was lost for existing connections (not sure how). If I remove the JDBC .jar file from the .war, it works, but that wasn't an ideal solution, the other way to get it to work was to change the sun-web.xml file to have <class-loader delegate="true">. We previously had it set to false in version 8.1 because of interference with a different version of the apache Tiles classes, which has now been addressed in version 9.1.
I still think there is an issue, because the connection pool should never use the application specific classloaders. Am I wrong to believe this?

Deactivate users who are no longer exist in AD but were added into resource pool

Hello forum members,
does anyone know how to deactivate users who are no longer exist in AD , but were added into resource pool?
I an trying to write some code that would update a custom value for each resource, but my code breaks whenever it encounters a resource that is not longer exists in AD. Any suggestions are appreciated.
// Modify the resources, code was taken from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/websvcresource.resource.updateresources(v=office.12).ASPX
foreach (SvcResource.ResourceDataSet.ResourcesRow resourceRow in resourceDs.Resources)
Console.WriteLine("Check out " + resourceRow.RES_NAME);
if (resourceRow.IsRES_CHECKOUTBYNull())
resourceSvc.CheckOutResources(new Guid[] { resourceRow.RES_UID });
checkedOut = true;
else
if (resourceRow.RES_CHECKOUTBY == me)
checkedOut = true;
else
checkedOut = false;
Console.WriteLine("\tCan't check out this resource, skip updating this one.");
if (checkedOut)
SvcResource.ResourceDataSet updateDs = resourceSvc.ReadResource(resourceRow.RES_UID);
if (resourceRow.RES_TYPE <= (int)PSLibrary.Resource.Type.INACTIVATED_OFFSET)
updateDs.Resources[0].RES_CODE = "A" + rand.Next(1000, 9999);
Console.WriteLine("Update RES_CODE to " + updateDs.Resources[0].RES_CODE);
resourceSvc.UpdateResources(updateDs, false, false);
Console.WriteLine("Check in " + resourceRow.RES_NAME);
resourceSvc.CheckInResources(new Guid[] { resourceRow.RES_UID }, false);
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Yellow;
Console.WriteLine("".PadRight(30, '-'));
Console.ResetColor();
tatiana

This is the logic I used:
1) Try to inactivate the user
2) If it fails with "AdminNTAccountNotFound" then delete
try {
using( OperationContextScope ocs = new OperationContextScope( resourceClient.InnerChannel ) ) {
resourceClient.CheckOutResources( new Guid[] { resourceUID } );
// Perform the update
rsDS = ( SvcResource.ResourceDataSet ) rsDS.GetChanges();
resourceClient.UpdateResources( rsDS, false, true );
catch( Exception ex ) {
if( ex.Message.Contains( "AdminNTAccountNotFound" ) ) {
try {
resourceClient.CheckInResources( new Guid[] { resourceUID }, true );
catch {
//The resource does not have a valid account, deleting...
using( OperationContextScope ocs = new OperationContextScope( resourceClient.InnerChannel ) ) {
resourceClient.CheckOutResources( new Guid[] { resourceUID } );
resourceClient.DeleteResources( new Guid[] { resourceUID }, "No longer in RBS structure and/or AD" );
120811049008

Hyper-V Resource Pools for Memory and CPU

Hi all,
I'm trying to understand the concepts and details of resource pools in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. It seems as if there is almost no documentation on all that. Perhaps somebody can support me here, maybe I've not seen some docs yet.
So far, I learned that resource pools in their current implementation serve mainly for metering purposes. You can create pools per tenant and then group VM resources into those pools to facilitate resource metering per tenant. That is, you enable metering
once per pool and get all the data necessary to bill that one customer for all their resources (without metering individual VMs). Is that correct?
Furthermore, it seems to me that an ethernet pool goes one step further by providing an abstraction level for virtual switches. As far as I've understood you can add multiple vSwitches to a pool and then connect a VM to the pool. Hyper-V then decides which
actual switch to use. This may be handy in a multi-host environment if vSwitches on different hosts use different names although they connect to the same network. Is that correct?
So - talking about actually managing that stuff I've learned how to create a pool and how to add VHD locations and virtual switches to a pool. Enabling resource metering for a pool then collects usage data from all the resources inside that pool.
But now: I can create a pool for memory and a pool for CPU. But I cannot add resources to those. Neither can I add a complete VM to a pool. Now I'm launching a VM that belongs to a customer whose resources I'm metering. How will Hyper-V know that it's
supposed to collect data on CPU and memory usage for that VM?
Am I missing something here? Or is pool-based metering only good for ethernet and VHD resources, and CPU and memory still need to be metered per VM?
Thanks for clarification,
Nils
Nils Kaczenski
MVP Directory Services
Hannover, Germany

Thank you for the links. I already knew those, and unfortunately they are not matching my question. Two of them are about Windows Server 2008/R2, and one only lists a WMI interface. What I'm after is a new feature in Windows Server 2012, and I need conceptional
information.
Thanks for the research anyway. I appreciate that a lot!
In the meantime I've gotten quite far in my own research. See my entry above of January 7th. Some additions:
In Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V resource pools are mainly for metering purposes. You cannot compare them to resource pools in VMware.
A resource pool in Hyper-V (2012) facilitates resource metering and billing for VM usage especially in hosting scenarios. You can either measure resource usage for single VMs, or you can group existing resources (such as CPU power, RAM, virtual hard disk
storage, Ethernet traffic) into pools. Those pools will mostly be assigned to one customer each. That way you can bill the customer for their resource usage in a given time period by just querying the customer's pool.
Metering only collects aggregated data with one value per resource (i.e. overall CPU usage, maximum VHD storage, summed Ethernet traffic and so on). You can control the time period by explicitly resetting the counter at any given time (a day, a week, a
month or what you like).
There is no detailed data. The aggregate values serve as a basis for billing, not as monitoring data. If you need detailed monitoring data use Performance Monitor.
There is currently only one type of resource pool that adds an abstraction layer to a virtualization farm, and that is the Ethernet type. You can use that type for metering, but you can also use it to group a number of virtual switches (that connect to
the same network segment) and then a VM connected to that pool will automatically use an appropriate virtual switch from the pool. You need no longer worry about virtual switch names across multiple hosts as long as all equivalent virtual switches are
added to the pool.
While you can manage two types of pool resources in the GUI (VHD pools and Ethernet pools) you should only manage resource pools via PowerShell. Only there will you be able to control what happens. And only PowerShell provides a means to start, stop, and
reset metering and query metering data.
The process to use resource pools in Hyper-V (2012) in short:
First create a new pool via PowerShell (New-VMResourcePool). (In case of a VHD pool you must specify the VHD storage paths to add to the pool in the moment you create the pool.)
In case of an Ethernet pool add existing virtual switches to the pool (Add-VMSwitch).
Reconfigure existing VMs that you want to measure so that they use resources from the pool. The PowerShell
Set-VM* commands accept a parameter -ResourcePoolName to do that. Example:
Set-VMMemory -VMName APP-02 -ResourcePoolName MyPool1
Start measuring with Enable-VMResourceMetering.
Query collected data as often as you need with Measure-VMResourcePool.
Note that you should specify the pool resource type in the command to get reliable data (see my post above, Jan 7th).
When a metering period (such as a week or a month) has passed, reset the counter to zero with
Reset-VMResourceMetering.
Hope that helps. I consider this the answer to my own question. ;)
Here's some links I collected:
http://itproctology.blogspot.ca/2012/12/hyper-v-resource-pool-introduction.html
http://www.ms4u.info/2012/12/configure-ethernet-resource-pool-in.html
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2012/08/16/introduction-to-resource-metering.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/1ce4e2b2-8fdd-4f16-8ab6-e1e1da6d07e3
Best wishes, Nils
Nils Kaczenski
MVP Directory Services
Hannover, Germany

JDBC Receiver Error: Resource Pool Exception

Hi All,
I am having a scenario where my messages are flowing from SAP to legacy system using JDBC as the receiver adapter and at the legacy system it is updating the Oracle Database. It was all running succesfully from long back. Now I got the following error (in every communicaton channel which using the JDBC adapter, I chcekd this in communication channel monitoring) in Runtime Workbench --> Message Monitoring --> Adapter Engine.
Error Category XI_J2EE_ADAPTER_JDBC
Error Code PROCESSING_ERROR
2009-09-16 22:03:35 Success Receiver JDBC adapter: processing started; QoS required: ExactlyOnce
2009-09-16 22:03:59 Error Exception caught by adapter framework: Error when attempting to get processing resources: com.sap.aii.af.service.util.concurrent.ResourcePoolException: Unable to create new pooled resource: DriverManagerException: Cannot establish connection to URL 'jdbc:oracle:thin:@XX.XX.XX.XX:XXXX:XXXX': SQLException: ORA-04031: unable to allocate 3968 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","unknown object","sga heap(1,0)","transaction")
I have checked in SDN where I get information about : Cannot establish connection to URL 'jdbc:oracle:thin:@XX.XX.XX.XX:XXXX:XXXX':. But I am not getting any information about SQLException: ORA-04031: unable to allocate 3968 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","unknown object","sga heap(1,0)","transaction").
Can any body please let me know about the error which I am getting and how can I resolve it.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks Abhishek for ur reply.
This means that it not the technical job in which I can provide any help. Our DBA they all are client.
I have read in SDN that it cannot establish connection to URL because either Oracle is down or JDBC parameters have been changed (like user name/password).
If enough resource pools are not available...enough space / resources seems to be unavailable then what needs to be done from my side (as the client always ask me what needs to be done then and by whom).
Thanks
Zeba

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