Master Projects, Subprojects, Resource Pool

I have reviewed the previous threads and have not found a good match with my issue. Here goes.
I have a project plan (Plan1) stored on OneDrive. I have a second plan that is my resource pool stored in the same location. I open both plans by clicking on them in OneDrive. When I go into Plan1, I go to Resource Pool -> Share Resources.
The pop-up box comes up with the 'Use Own Resources' selected. The other option of 'Use Resources (requires at least one open resource pool)' is greyed out. How do I get it such that I can select the second option and enter the name of my resource
pool.
The resource pool is a .mpp file that has no tasks and it has about 70 resources defined. Is there something I must toggle to show that it is a resource pool file?
I am using MS Project 2013 Professional. I am not using Project Server or PWA.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts and assistance!
Hillary
Clarification: I have both plans (which are both on OneDrive) opened at the same time - and the Plan1 file does not recognize the the other file (pool) as a potential candidate for a resource pool.
Clarification #2: When I copy the resource pool to my desktop, and then open it, Plan1 (on OneDrive) is able to see the resource pool and share it...

HRDavidson,
Convolved it is and you are also setting yourself up for corruption as I've indicated in my initial response. This is what I suggest. Since each element of the overall structure (i.e. resource pool, sharer files, master file, network, multi-user environment)
contributes to the probability of corruption, your best chance for minimizing corruption is to eliminate and/or control each element.
The ideal configuration is for all files to be resident on a local drive with one person in control but that probably isn't going to work in your scenario. However, there are some things you can do. First, I would not maintain a dynamic master file. You
can still see the whole plan with all 6 individual projects whenever you need by creating a static master (i.e. uncheck the "link to project" option in the lower right corner of the Insert Project window). That will produce a new single file that
is a snapshot in time of all the individual projects. The main advantage is that it does not create an additional link structure. Second, develop a set of groundrules on file maintenance and make sure all users are trained. The basic groundrules are: never
move, rename, replace, or save off any files in the structure. You may wish to add other rules concerning what users can and cannot change with regard to data.
Using the above approach you will still have a resource pool/sharer file linked structure on a network and it will still be prone to corruption but your chances for success will be increased. If you want to totally eliminate, (although nothing is really
"total"), the chance of corruption, combine the whole structure into a single file with either one person in charge or a defined set of access rules (e.g. time) for each user. Filtering, grouping or other techniques can facilitate easier maintenance
by each user.
The other option of course is to move to Project Server.
Those are my thoughts. Perhaps Dale and Rod will drop in with their comments.
John

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So say "Dave" was scheduled for 100 hours total across all projects, when we run the report it is now making him show that he is scheduled for 300 hours.
We have a resource pool and all our PM's pull from this.
Can you please help us in trying to figure out why, this report is not working correctly.
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If you have a master project with links to many projects plus a resource pool, then you have a fragile system based on old DDE technology(DDE does teh auto update between files). If any of these files are ona wide arear network where network quality is less
than 99.99% then file corruption is likely. If any user moves, overwrites or renames any of the linked files the file corruption die are thrown.
So, my first suspect is a file corruption. To fix break all the links then re-create master and pool (with new blank projects). Ideally use master files where projects are inserted with no link. This consolidates resources as well. I use a recorded macro
to re-create a master when needed.
If you have Project 2007 it is ESSENTIAL that you apply SP3 and the latest cumulative update. Project 2007 without Service Packs is very bug ridden.
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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

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

Is it possible to link data across different/multiple PWA sites leveraging Master Project with the Subprojects feature?

A couple different questions /similar scenarios
1) Is it possible with Project Server 2010 to have several sites (http://server/pwa1 and
http://server/pwa2 for example) communicate and build a Master Project at a third (or X) site (http://server/pwa3)
2) Is it possible with Project Server 2010 to have several sites (http://server/pwa1 and
http://server/pwa2 for example) communicate and build a Master Project at one of the original sites (http://server/pwa1 (for example))
OR is there a better way to do this/more preferred way to do this.
We found this (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/projectserver/en-US/2379c3f2-6c80-46d7-8eac-3bc2ccb2d908/master-projectsubproject-with-sites-in-pwa-2010?forum=projectserver2010general)
but its not what we're looking for
3a) Issue/Example -
We want to set up a site (http://server/pwa100) for just the president of the company - all the schedules of the subsites (/pwa99 + /pwa98) create a feed into an integrated master schedule/master project with subprojects(located
in /pwa100).
3b-1) We also want to set up sub sites (http://server/pwa99 and
http://server/pwa98) for each division VPs (and specific other people). These two sites would only allow specific user's project files to be viewed by each other...
Can their project files have linkages between the two project sites (/pwa99 and /pwa98)? Meaning if user1 logs in to /pwa99 can he see a project file (given that they have permission) from /pwa98 in the same instance?
3b-2) Can they see the project file in ProjPro and/or PWA ???
3c) is it possible to have:
+ /pwa100 (pres)
++/pwa99 & /pwa98 (two vps)
+++/pwa97 & /pwa96 & /pwa95 & /pwa-etc (minions)
each rolling up to the next level (level 3 rolls up to level 2 which can roll up to level 1)

kbwrecker,
I agree with Dale. Having multiple sites will make this difficult to set up.
Not knowing how your Custom Groups/Categories have been set up, have you looked into using the "Project Permissions" feature to share projects. These permissions are 'additive' to the category permissions, so you could start out with people looking at the
projects they are authorized to via categories, and then let them share/add people as needed basis. This will also satisfy the requirement of not-loading the projects with resources..
And finally, the department and categories need not align, except that when projects from one dept are shared t another dept resource, the visibility of custom fieds will be affected.
Hope I did not go off on a tangent there :)
Prasanna Adavi,PMP,MCTS,MCITP,MCT TWitter: @prasannaadavi Blog: http://www.prasannaadavi.com
Meant to get back to this earlier - your answer is close (because its what we currently do..sort-of)
From my understanding of this issue the users are separated by department and can only see specific projects; however, when they try to share departments between users (so they can see their projects (dept a sees dept b projects)) this works - but there
is a bigger issue/main issue.
main issue: when dept B adds a new project dept. A cannot see the new project in dept B.
This can be eliviated by removing the user/s and re-adding them to the permission structure of the deptment but overall doing this several times based on user/s and projects being added it gets to be cumbersome and just plain annoying.
Any help/additional thoughts would be great

Master Project Resources

Hi,
I have a master project, in that I have added some 25 resources.
When I try to add those resources in Resource Names field in MS Project, that field is empty(I do not see any resources).
Why is it so?
K.Gokulraj

Hi,
Are you using Project Server with an Enterprise resource pool? Or a shared resource file?
The resources must be created in one of the sub-projects, meaning that if you create a task in another sub-project or even if the master plan directly, you might not see it. In the resource sheet, insert the "project" column to see which project
has which resources.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |

Project 2013 with Shared Resources(resource pool) stored in O365 SharePoint

I am trying to use both a resource pool and storing all projects files in Office 365 document library. I have 3 project files, one with resources only and 2 for project scheduling. If I store the files on the local machine, when I open both resource project
and the task project and use shared resources, it works as expected.
I then copied the project files to a SharePoint library and attempt to do the same thing, project does not seem to know that there are multiple project files open and the shared resource option is disabled.
How does project determine that multiple project files are open to enable the resource pool feature? I have tried faking it out my mapping a drive letter, etc to the SharePoint library. Does project/WebDAV have issues?

Yep I'm pretty sure that resource pools and linked master files don't work with SharePoint. Pools and linked masters should only ever be very carefully used on local drives (physically within same building) as the links use DDE (developed way before SharePoint
was even thought of) which are very fragile and prone to file corruptions.
Rod Gill
Author of the one and only Project VBA Book
www.project-systems.co.nz

Microsoft Project - Resource Pool Major Issues (continuation)

Hi All,
I have followed the the very helpful discussions in this forum under "Resource Pool Major Issues". I have read all the other related discussions as well.
I still have a question on the Resource Pool:- I am using a stand-alone version of Project Professional 2007
I create a Resource Pool; a Master Schedule and then insert several different Project Schedules into the Master.
I have gone through the motions of harmonizing the calenders and all the other good stuff recommended in the blog.
I then share the resources from the Pool.
When I open each activity to load the resources, I cannot see the shared resources except at the Project level (but not at the task level)
The only way I can pull the resources into the tasks is
if I break the links of each inserted Project. (incidentally the inserted tasks are automatically linked option is de-selected)
Even then, I get an irritating message pop-up saying that the calender does not exist.
Has anyone had this experience, is it the correct way to share the resources; and do you have any thoughts, suggestions on this matter?
Thanks
FK

Hard Core,
You indicate you have Project 2007 but you didn't tell us if you have SP3 installed. If not, do so.
Since you indicate that you have "read all related discussions" I will assume that you are aware of the tenuous nature of linked structures in Project and that they are prone to corruption.
Please clarify something. What exactly do you mean by "open each activity" and "I cannot see the shared resources except at the Project level"? Also, which links are you breaking?
We can't really tell you if what you are doing is the correct way, (probably not if you have to break links for it to work), until we understand exactly what you are doing.
John

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

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 allocation problem - MS Project 2013

I have a new resource pool which I have created, im very new to MS Project so I may have set this up wrong im not too sure as I am learning from reading articles on google.
So my resource pool has 12 fabricators on it – working 8am – 4.30pm but I have put the max units at 75%, totalling to 900%, ive input all absences that I know of in the future by reducing the percentage of work, 2 people off I have reduced it to 750% for
that day. Im hoping this is the right way to do this?
Here’s where it gets messy . There is over allocation throughout January on the fabs so 6 of them have agreed to do overtime at 2 hours a day Mon-Fri and full day Saturday. As there is only 6 of them and not the full 12 do I change it in the resource information
under general or should I be splitting them and changing their working hours or is there no way round this. Sorry my brain has been fried this week trying to work out resource pools.
Any advice would be gratefully received thanks
J
Kath

Hi Kath
I doubt if I understood you completely!!!
I am mentioning some links please go through these links and just check if it helps you in any way possible.
Assignment Units
Modify working and nonworking times
Please write back to us in the forum for any other help. Someone may help if question is more accurate.
Thanks
Manish

Project Server 2013 AD Enterprise Resource Pool Synchronization Exception

Hello,
I am looking for assistance from the project server community.
When I click “Save and Synchronize” on the Active Directory Enterprise Resource Pool Synchronization page nothing happens and the status does not change.
This is a new instance of PWA and I am preforming this task using the farm admin account. The farm admin account can read AD.
Error 1:
w3wp.exe (0x1B98)
0x0B8C Project Server
General aeby7
Exception [bucketHash:F08803DE] Exception occured in method 'Admin.ResolveActiveDirectoryGroups' System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.ClaimsHelper.GetFormsAuthenticationProviderName(Uri context, SPUrlZone zone)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.ActiveDirectoryUtility.TryGetGroupInfo(String searchRoot)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectArrayIterator`2.MoveNext()
at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToArray[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.PWAImpl.<>c__DisplayClassf2.<AdminResolveActiveDirectoryGroups>b__f1()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.WcfMethodInvocation.InvokeBusinessObjectMethod(String businessObjectName, String methodName, IEnumerable`1 actions) StackTrace:
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Native.dll: (sig=[sig]|2|microsoft.office.project.server.native.pdb, offset=3C1E) at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Native.dll: (offset=1254D)
d360539c-6d89-70e7-c077-92da686b0689
Error 2:
Error is: GeneralUnhandledException. Details: General Unhandled Exception in _Admin.ResolveActiveDirectoryGroups_ Attributes:
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.ClaimsHelper.GetFormsAuthenticationProviderName(Uri context, SPUrlZone zone)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.ActiveDirectoryUtility.TryGetGroupInfo(String searchRoot)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectArrayIterator`2.MoveNext()
at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToArray[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.PWAImpl.<>c__DisplayClassf2.<AdminResolveActiveDirectoryGroups>b__f1()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.WcfMethodInvocation.InvokeBusinessObjectMethod(String businessObjectName, String methodName,
IEnumerable`1 actions) . Standard Information: PSI Entry Point:
Project User: i:0#.w|[DOMAIN\UserID] Correlation Id: f1f1a77f-6b45-e311-9407-00155d2abe21 PWA Site URL: [PWA URL] SA Name: Project Server Service Application PSError: GeneralUnhandledException (42), LogLevelManager Warning-ulsID:0x00101622 has no entities
explicitly specified.

Hi,
I also get the same error when I'm trying to do the synchronization between Enterprise Resource Pool and Active Directory.
I am in a single domain topology between Project Server 2013 and AD, and I'm doning the synchronization with the farm admin account, who has read/write access to AD.
Here are the last relevant messages I see:
w3wp.exe (0x2BE8) 0x1568 Project Server General aeby7 Exception
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at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.ClaimsHelper.GetFormsAuthenticationProviderName(Uri context, SPUrlZone zone)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.ActiveDirectoryUtility.TryGetGroupInfo(String domain, String searchPath, String searchFilter)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.ActiveDirectoryUtility.TryGetGroupInfoByClaim(String encodedClaim)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectArrayIterator`2.MoveNext()
at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToArray[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.PWAImpl.<>c__DisplayClass10a.<AdminResolveActiveDirectoryGroups>b__109()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.WcfMethodInvocation.InvokeBusinessObjectMethod(String businessObjectName, String methodName, IEnumerable`1 actions) StackTrace:
2b3d83ee10e5|2|, microsoft.office.project.server.native.pdb, offset=3C1E)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Native.dll: (offset=1255D)
w3wp.exe (0x2BE8) 0x1568 Project Server Unified Logging Service c91s Monitorable
Watson bucket parameters: Microsoft Project Server 2013, ULSException14, 070f6ea0 "project server", 0f001181 "15.0.4481.0", 6962a0f6 "microsoft.office.project.server.administration", 0f0011ad "15.0.4525.0", 51ade0c4 "tue jun 04 14:42:44 2013", 0000020f
"0000020f", 0000003b "0000003b", 0560164b "keynotfoundexception", 00101621 "aeby7"
w3wp.exe (0x2BE8) 0x1568 Project Server General aeby8 Medium
Error is: GeneralUnhandledException. Details: General Unhandled Exception in _Admin.ResolveActiveDirectoryGroups_ Attributes: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.ClaimsHelper.GetFormsAuthenticationProviderName(Uri context, SPUrlZone zone)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.ActiveDirectoryUtility.TryGetGroupInfo(String domain, String searchPath, String searchFilter)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.ActiveDirectoryUtility.TryGetGroupInfoByClaim(String encodedClaim)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectArrayIterator`2.MoveNext() at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToArray[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.PWAImpl.<>c__DisplayClass10a.<AdminResolveActiveDirectoryGroups>b__109()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.WcfMethodInvocation.InvokeBusinessObjectMethod(String businessObjectName, String methodName, IEnumerable`1 actions) . Standard Information: PSI Entry Point: Project User: LUXAIRLG\SQLADMIN2012
Correlation Id: 6cef3814-b3a2-e311-93f9-005056921080 PWA Site URL: xxx SA Name: PS2013 - Project Server Service Application PSError: GeneralUnhandledException (42). LogLevelManager Warning-ulsID:0x00101622 has no entities explicitly specified.
w3wp.exe (0x2BE8) 0x1568 Project Server Project Web App af04k Medium
Void SaveButtonClick(System.Object.System.Web.UI.WebControls.CommandEventArgs) : GeneralUnhandledException
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

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