Project Server 2010 Business Intelligence performance issue

Hello,
We've setup a Project Server 2010 Business intelligence center and everything seems to be working fine.
The next day when users attempt to open Sample reports an error occurs that when we apply the "refresh all Data connections" a couple of times everything works fine.
How do we ensure that this strange issue of "fake un-related" errors are not occuring for users.
Once the BI is accessed by a few people then the reports seem to work the first time otherwise if you are the first one running them in the morning you have to retry 4 to 5 times for the excel spreadsheet to show up?

Hello Claude
While there is a list to things to double check when configuring Secure Store, I think the first thing I will do is "Set Credentials". The password may be been changed or if several attempts to using the account is tried, it may have gotten
locked out.
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Project Server 2010 - Assigned tasks not visible in PWA

Hi,
When I enter an issue on a project site, the assigned issue is not visible in the PWA under Issues & Risks.
Based on this link (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f5abd024-3c9a-47f8-a7cb-7743fafebf2b/project-server-2010-cannot-see-assigned-issues-and-risks) I have tried to solve it however without success.
In the queue jobs I have the following error details:
General
Reporting Wss list sync failed:
ReportingWssSyncListFailed (24018) - 1100. Details: id='24018' name='ReportingWssSyncListFailed' uid='6c8a0779-3c9f-4d25-a81c-04d69d6fce1d' SPListType='2136b7a0-03b9-4547-8b2d-c66497accd08' Error='1100'.
ReportingWssSyncListFailed (24018) - 1101. Details: id='24018' name='ReportingWssSyncListFailed' uid='1573855e-b176-44cc-bf92-8959d167f8fe' SPListType='2136b7a0-03b9-4547-8b2d-c66497accd08' Error='1101'.....................................
Reporting message processor failed:
ReportingWSSSyncMessageFailed (24016) - RDS failed while trying to sync one or more SP lists. The RDS queue message will be retried.. Details: id='24016' name='ReportingWSSSyncMessageFailed' uid='839ed0b8-6b8c-4bd5-bfbe-540349c1f27a' QueueMessageBody='ProjectUID='2136b7a0-03b9-4547-8b2d-c66497accd08'.
ForceFullSync='False'. SynchronizationType='All'' Error='RDS failed while trying to sync one or more SP lists. The RDS queue message will be retried.'.
ReportingWSSSyncMessageFailed (24016) - RDS failed while trying to sync one or more SP lists. The RDS queue message will be retried.. Details: id='24016' name='ReportingWSSSyncMessageFailed' uid='b0e773af-5cc3-4965-85b3-a4d8050e86f5' QueueMessageBody='ProjectUID='2136b7a0-03b9-4547-8b2d-c66497accd08'.
ForceFullSync='False'. SynchronizationType='All'' Error='RDS failed while trying to sync one or more SP lists. The RDS queue message will be retried.'............................................
Queue:
GeneralQueueJobFailed (26000) - ReportingWSSSync.WSSSyncMessageEx. Details: id='26000' name='GeneralQueueJobFailed' uid='07edaa28-647c-4dee-974e-06f47e4b4e40' JobUID='899bd048-2c19-4176-bd6c-1b45b8379a40' ComputerName='NLHGOL7FPR' GroupType='ReportingWSSSync'
MessageType='WSSSyncMessageEx' MessageId='1' Stage=''. For more details, check the ULS logs on machine NLHGOL7FPR for entries with JobUID 899bd048-2c19-4176-bd6c-1b45b8379a40.
As I understand this error could be due to a mismatch between the fields that are 'standard' in the project server and fields that are op the project site.
If the reporting database could not sync, will consequently also the issues not be visible on the PWA??
Any suggestions how to solve this?
Regards,
Dirk

Hello,
Yes, if the Issues & Risks are not being synchronised to the Reporting database then this will impact the issues & risks appearing on the PWA homepage reminders web part. See this post on how the data gets to the Reminders web part in Project
Server 2010:
http://pwmather.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/projectserver-active-issues-and-risks-on-pwa-reminders-web-part-ps2010-sp2010-sharepoint/
The error you are seeing is probably caused by the default Issue or Risks columns being edited or removed from the Issues or Risks lists. It might be worth taking a look at this post:
http://pwmather.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/project-server-2010-project-site-default-fields/
Paul
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Issue in Custom Filter in PWA of Ms Project Server 2010

Hi,
i am facing an issue on setting a cutom filter in the Project Center view of PWA. I am setting a custom filter and it works fine.
Projects are filtered as per the filter. However, on selecting the filter for editing, I get a message viz. "Failure. There was an error processing the request".
I am looking for pointers and guidance to resolve this issue. Any helpin this regard will be appreciated.

Hi,
Evenif you already checked this out, it is likely to be a security issue. This functionality is managed by permissions in PWA server settings and not in the Central Admin.
Check this article :
http://msprojectnow.com/Blog/tabid/142/entryid/556/Enabling-Task-Sheet-functionality-to-Add-Yourself-to-a-Task-in-Project-Server-2010-PWA.aspx
Check if you're not belonging to multiple categories that might have the given permission disabled.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

Project Server 2010 - Issue with correct recording of timesheet actual hours with decimals

We have Project Server 2010 and are using the timesheet functionality for recording resource times/costs in the schedules.
It has come to light only recently, that for one user, suddenly the times she is entering are not being summed up correctly. An image of her timesheet and the manage timesheet screens are shown below. Note she entered 9.5 hrs but the total that
appears in the manage timesheet screen is 9.514hrs.
If you look at the history of the previous weeks as well, the weird change toi the total hours has occurred in the previous 4 weeks as well. I have no idea why this has started happening and am not aware of any change to the resource's details (apart
from a change to her hourly rate).
Has anyone experienced this before?
Thanks
Peter

We have this issue and are past the patch that discussed decimal rounding (April 2014, though it was more related to the application of resource rates). This seems different from that noted rounding problem.
We have at least three users (out of 625) that have this problem every week and it isn't always the same users. If we re-enter the time and zero fill the cells for the problem task it will fix it.
It is almost like when a user deletes a value that it is leaving residual numbers in the field.
Our 2010 server version below which is through Sept 2014 CU:
14.0.7132.5000
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Project Server 2010 - Modification date and name of the person who made the last change in the project

Hello everybody
I'm with a doubt.
I got in the business
environment Project Server 2010 and
would like to get the publication date,modification
date and name
of the person who made
the last change in
the project. It is possible
to doby the native
resources or is
there any query in
SQL Server to perform a
query of this information.
Thank you.
Obrigado por contactar o fórum Microsoft Technet!

Hi Hezequias,
You can get the ProjectModifiedDate column in MSP_EPMProject_userView in the Reporting DB where you can
get the data based on the projectUID.
The "last saved" date in the draft DB (be aware that querying in the draft DB is not supported by MS).
For the "last modified by", I think it is not stored in any place.
But you can develop custom code upon publishing the project (Event BeforePublish), writing the current
date and username automatically into a custom enterprise field.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

Project Server 2010 - Error 20010 with a master project and 3 sub-projects during publication

Hi,
Here is the situation :
One master project with three sub projects.
Sub projects are really similar (Same ressources and nearly same tasks but only the first contain real work for now).
Sub projects got no sub projects nor links between projects.
The owner of the master project got read rights through projects permissions on sub projects.
Sub projects are link in "read only".
We applied Project Server 2010 SP2 last week end and the issue appeared monday.
Here are the symptoms :
When we link only one sub project (Doesn't matter which one), the owner can publish, no problems.
With 2 sub projects, the error may occur.
With 3 sub projects, the error always occurs.
With admin rights, the error doesn't occur.
Here is the error :
ID : 20010 (0x4E2A)
Description : You don't have required permissions to perform the action (Average traduction)
Detail : <detail><errinfo><general><class name="Project"><error id="20010" name="GeneralSecurityAccessDenied" uid="19515c1d-2624-466f-953a-b7fc67337b81"/></class></general></errinfo></detail>
I'm unable to determine which sub project is the culprit, if there is one, as it's working when I link only one of them.
Thanks for your time !

Fylim --
If the project manager in question does not need to edit any of the three projects, the PM does not need to have Read/Write access to any of the three projects. Because you said that the PM needs to set links in all three projects, this means that
the PM will be editing all three projects. In order to edit the three projects, the PM must have Read/Write access to all three. Setting cross-project links constitutes editing of the projects, which is why the PM must have Read/Write permission.
Make sense?
Regarding SP2, I am not aware that this would change anything, but I could be wrong. The reality is that regardless of which SP you have applied to Microsoft Project and Project Server 2010, the PM in this situation MUST have Read/Write access to the
projects that he/she needs to edit with cross-project links. Hope this helps.
Dale A. Howard [MVP]

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 2010 - Change Status Manager

End Goal: We would like to perform this change via SQL statement - which I believe I have I feel like I am missing something and not sure what it is.
Background: We migrated from a different product to Project Server 2010, while our team members were assisting users to move their projects from the old application to Project 2010 they did not realize their names would appear as status
managers.
The quick solution would be to tell the owners of the projects to change the information themselves (republish or go in themselves and change every line); however we feel this can be cumbersome and too much work due to having hundreds of projects and there
are thousands of fields that need to be modified. I can quickly accomplish what I want with an UPDATE command and be done with it (no user involvement).
What I am running into in my test environment is that I can modify the fields (query below) to the appropriate status manager, but I cannot get the changes to appear in Project Professional - it still shows the old value.
I have used the following command to change the Status Manager to the Project Owner (I'm new to SQL, and we no longer have a DBA - so if my code isnt the greatest...I'll fix it)
USE ProjectServer_ReportingUPDATE MSP_EpmTaskSET TaskStatusManagerUID = MSP_EpmProject.ProjectOwnerResourceUIDFROM MSP_EpmProjectWHERE MSP_EpmTask.ProjectUID = MSP_EpmProject.ProjectUID
This modifies all the values correctly - Project Owners become the Status Manager in SQL
Question: Is there something I am missing or can do OR I am not doing to make this new value show up? Is there a better way to do this from an administrative point of view, with no customer/user interaction?
Your help is greatly appreciated
Thank You
kbwrecker

Merely my personal opinion having been a Project Server 2010 admin in a medium-sized corporation:
I think you are going to seriously do some damage if you go about trying to modify SQL tables behind Project Server's back. There are a LOT of operations that go into a simple "publish" and I doubt that the minor changes you want to make will account for
all of them. Are you confident you're adjusting all of the values necessary? You may have a detrimental impact on in-flight approvals, timesheets, projects, tasks, assignments.. There is just far too much IMO.
Believe me, I know it is not an ideal solution to have the business make their own adjustments. However sometimes it is just what has to be done. My vote is to craft brief instructions and send them out to the PMs. It's easy to do, they can change one row
and then drag the field down like in Excel to edit all the rest; it's a 1-minute operation, max.
Due to the nature of the field, (not being something you can edit via PWA, and even in Project Pro it only allows you to change it to yourself or another current Status Mgr) I think you'll have a hard time scripting this one via macro etc.. However if you
do find a way, seriously keep in mind your scope and don't edit them all at once, it will need to kick off publishes and check-ins for all the affected projects.
Good luck!

Project Server 2010 , Project Center, Resource Center, My Work not loading

Hi,
We have Project Server 2010 SP-2 env
Yesterday one of my Project Manager told me that he is not able to access any of the following page Project Center, Resource Center, My Work in our Quality env. Issue is it shows page is loading infinitely long and on botton it shows some script error mentioned
below
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:55:19 UTC
Message: 'null' is null or not an object
Line: 217
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://XXXXXXXXXXX/_layouts/inc/pwa/library/webmethodmanager.debug.js?rev=BtnvMSOtt14tg%2FnfhDTJpA%3D%3D
Also I have checked event logs in shows WebHost failed error with Event ID 3 , complete detail mentioned below.
Event Log Error
WebHost failed to process a request.
Sender Information: System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment+HostingManager/45523402
Exception: System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service '/_vti_bin/PSI/ProjectServer.svc' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The exception message is: Could not load file or assembly 'FirePoint.SharePoint.RssViewerWebPart,
Version=1.4.7.12, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e891f27e2edd24d0' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'FirePoint.SharePoint.RssViewerWebPart, Version=1.4.7.12,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e891f27e2edd24d0' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'FirePoint.SharePoint.RssViewerWebPart, Version=1.4.7.12, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e891f27e2edd24d0'
   at System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString)
   at System.ServiceModel.Activation.ServiceHostFactory.CreateServiceHost(String constructorString, Uri[] baseAddresses)
   at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.HostingManager.CreateService(String normalizedVirtualPath)
   at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.HostingManager.ActivateService(String normalizedVirtualPath)
   at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.HostingManager.EnsureServiceAvailable(String normalizedVirtualPath)
WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.HostingManager.EnsureServiceAvailable(String normalizedVirtualPath)
   at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment.EnsureServiceAvailableFast(String relativeVirtualPath)
Process Name: w3wp
Process ID: 5052
Also I have checked Brian Smith blog to resolve WebHost error with Event ID 3, but that didn't help.
So kindly help me to get this issue resolve and do let me know in case need further details.
Thanks

Hi,
From error log it seems you have some custom or thrid party web part activated in your application and that web part is not able to load which might causing those pages to get corrupt.
As a fix can suggest you below to two thing to check
1) Remove that "FirePoint.SharePoint.RssViewerWebPart" from your environment and try to access those PWA pages again.
2) Even after removing above web-part solution does not fix this issue, as it is quality env can you try to disconnect and reconnect the share-point farm . Then try to access those pages again.
Share us the latest update and your finding on this issue.
Regards
Sachin Vashishth MCTS

PerformancePoint Services of Project Server 2010

Hi guys. Now I am using Business Intelligence Feature in Project Server 2010. I did build a report show all Project by Dashboard Designer. In report i use Analysis Services type of Data Connection. I did build a Analysis Services Project by SQL Server
Business Intelligence Development Studio in Server. Everything ok, I see all project. But when I add more Project and refresh page, data not updated. Please help me to find out

With the cube you will need to rebuild it in order to refresh the data, if you are using cube you will need to schedule the cube build time, in order for cubes to be updated it can be scheduled and frequency of update can be set, however depending upon the
frequency impact on servers should be considered accordingly as cube build take quite a bit of resource while building
On a side note, curios to understand why are you not using the reporting DB which has nearly real time data and doesn't requires a refresh or update, though it may not have all the prebuilt measures & dimensions along with data, as in cube, but i am
sure you can manipulate them to show whatever you want
Thanks | Sunil Kr Singh | http://epmxperts.wordpress.com

Odd circumstances regarding an 'unexpected error' in Project Server 2010

A couple of days ago, a client of mine started experiencing an odd error upon trying to save their project files in Project Professional 2010 while connected to Project Server 2010. They'd receive the following error:
An unexpected error occurred during command execution.
Try the following:
Verify that all argument names and values are correct and are of the correct type.
You may have run out of memory. To free up available memory, close programs, projects, or windows that you are not using.
I am familiar with troubleshooting both of the cases as listed above in this error message and quickly determined that the client was not experiencing memory issues. I also could not find any instances where there were incorrect values in any project schedule
fields.
We eventually were able to replicate the issue by following these steps:
A user creates a new project via PWA using an Enterprise Project Type that has been pre-defined to have a specific project template applied to it. Please note that this Enterprise Project Type did not create a workflow... only created a Project Details
page, Project Information page, and Project Schedule based upon this template.
This new project is given some basic Project level custom field information and set to the PM owner and then saved and published without any issues.
Now, when the project schedule is opened immediately afterwards in Project Professional 2010, changes cannot be saved or published. Even the most basic of change at this point such as a new task line or renaming a task name will result in the error message
given at the top of this post. The user is then forced to close the project file and check it back in. Note this applies to anyone performing some or all of these steps.
Note: If a project file was created from this same template through Project Professional instead of through PWA, it was fine and no errors would occur upon further editing.
Because of the above, I decided to try and open the existing project templates used in the Enterprise Project Types that were being affected and simply re-save them with new names. I made no other changes to these templates than just giving them a new name.
I then created new Enterprise Project Types that would then use these new templates. Other than this change, these Enterprise Project Types were exactly the same as the previous ones which caused errors.
Upon trying the new Enterprise Project Types, the project schedules behaved normally and new projects created from them would not cause the error listed.
This is extremely puzzling obviously and now my client is concerned that this is a symptom of a deeper problem in the database that we might not yet know about.
Is this an issue that anyone here has experienced before, and if so, knows how to correct and prevent from occurring again in the future?
Thank you.
Daniel E Crabtree

Daniel,
Issue could be due to corruption ? Please provide us information about current server and client patch level for Project. Also ULS log information would be beneficial to investigate this issue
Hrishi Deshpande Senior Consultant

Replication of Project Server 2010 databases from Production to Development

HI
We have One Production, One Development and One QA server but the Production data is not matching with the Dev and QA.
Now our client is asking is there any possibility that we can copy the production data bases and replicate in the Dev and QA.
Is there any auto sync method where the production data updates will be updated in Dev and QA automatically.
Our environment is Project Server 2010 4 PWA data bases and 1 config data base and 1 config data base for project sites.
Please suggest a best possible way to solve this issue as i thought to take the the PWA back up frm central admin along with the 4 db back up from pwa--- 6 db back up from sql server---- restore all of them in the Dev and QA---i don't think it is the right
approach.
Thanks
Geetha
Geeth If you feel that the answer which i gave you is Helpful please select it as Answer/helpful.

As per your First post you only want to update the data of DB on regular basis.
Now you are talking about back up restore Please be clear what you want .
If you have all the configuration ready on qa and dev then only replication need to be done.
can i use the replication mechanism for all the 5 databases in PS 2010 at time won't be a problem right
? YES
other wise
If i want to copy the PWA configuration part can i use play book or any other steps i need to perform.
YES
We have some workflows on PWA instance. Create workflow on Dev and QA
kirtesh

Unable open Project details or a project from PWA Project server 2010 with Alias name

Hi,
I am unable to open the Projects from Project center with the Alias name with the server name i am able to open the projects, version is project server 2010,
My system is ABC.DC.IN alias name i have given is DEF.AD.COM
With the system name i can able access PWA and all are working fine.
As i have observed with alias name i can able to login to pwa and all the server setting approval center all are working fine but only in the project center i am not able to open the projects (http://DEF.AD.COM/pwa/ProjectDrillDown.aspx .xxxx)
its is coming in the below of the ie.
But with Alias name these are the issues i am facing,
1.when longing with alias name its asking two times for user name and password
2.when i click on a project from project center its taking some time and asking for user name and password after i enter user name and password "PAGE cannot displayed" error i am getting.
can any one Help me.
vijay kommireddi

Hi Eric,
Thanks for your Reply.
As you said i have added in Manged Path as (Testpwa/projects.aspx as <Wildcard inclusion>) But still problem is there it is asking user
name password again if click on any project in project center and and showing page cannot be displayed error.
This is url its is showing in the below of the IE ( http://def.ad.com/testpwa/projectdrilldown.aspx?ProjUid=e28c6d43-85b6-478d-9542-2961cc81a69e)
I have observed one more thing if click on Project
details then only this issue is coming project schedule and project information
is also opening with Alias name.
My farm version is 14.0.7015.1000
Vijay Kommireddi

Project Server 2010 Web services access with Client Certificate Authentication

We switched our SharePoint/Project Server 2010 farm to use client certificate authentication with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, which is working without issue. We have some administrative Project Server Interface (PSI)
web service applications that no longer connect to server with the new authentication configuration. Our custom applications are using the WCF interface to access the public web services.
Please let us know if it is possible to authenticate with AD FS 2.0 and then call
Project Server web services. Any help or coding examples would be greatly appreciated.

what is the error occurred when the custom PSI app connects?
can you upload the ULS logs here for research?
What is the user account format you specified in the code for authentication?
For proper authorization, the “user logon account” in PWA for the user needs to be changed from domain\username to the claims token (e.g.
'I:0#.w|mybusinessdomain\ewmccarty').
It requires you to manually call the UpnLogon method of
“Claims to Windows Token Service”. if (Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity is ClaimsIdentity)
{ var identity = (ClaimsIdentity)Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity; }
if (Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity is ClaimsIdentity)
var identity = (ClaimsIdentity)Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity;
Than you need to extract UPN-Claim from the identity.
Upload the verbose log if possible.
Did you see this?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff181538(v=office.14).aspx
Cheers. Happy troubleshooting !!! Sriram E - MSFT Enterprise Project Management

Project Server 2010 PWA Provisioning Error - System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied.

Hi,
When migrating from a Prod Environment to a Test Environment using the Project Server 2010 5 Database backup and restore process (actually 6 DB's with the Project Sites DB), upon encountering a failure during provisioning the PWA Instance, we get the errors listed
at the base of this posting in our Event Logs.
To clarify what we have done already, we have:
1. Backed up the 6 databases from the Source Environment.
2. Removed the existing PWA_Content and PWS_Content (Project Sites) databases from the Target Environment Farm.
3. Restored the 6 databases in the Target Environment.
4. Given the SP Farm Service Account 'db_owner' rights to each of the 6 restored databases.
5. Added the PWA_Content and PWS_Content databases (exact same names) to the Target Environment.
6. Locked down (offline/stopped), all of the SharePoint Content databases in the Farm except for the PWA_Content database.
7. Run the PWA Provisioning process from the 'Project Server' SharePoint Service in Central Admin.
It is during the PWA provisioning that we encounter these errors.
As the Target Environment is for Test/Dev purposes, the SP Farm Service Account is setup to support all of the SharePoint Farm Services, is in the Local Admin Group of each of the Servers (App, WFE and DB), and is actually in the sysadmin
role on the DB Server.
Any suggestions on what is causing this denied access situation would be most appreciated.
Cheers,
Wayne
Event Log Entries:
============================================
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-Project Server
Date:          1/22/2014 2:47:34 PM
Event ID:      6971
Task Category: Provisioning
Level:         Error
Keywords:
User:          ACCOUNTS\svc_psfarm
Computer:      SERVER.accounts.domain.com
Description:
Failed to provision site PWA with error: Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Administration.ProvisionException: Membership synchronization failed. ---> System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.AddRoleDef(String bstrUrl, String bstrName, String bstrDescription, Boolean bHidden, Int32 lRoleOrder, UInt64 iPermMask, Byte iType, Int32 lRoleDefID)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoleDefinitionCollection.AddCore(SPRoleDefinition role)
etc....
Failed to create the Report Center web (Exception: PSI Entry Point:
Project User: DOMAIN\svc_psfarm Correlation Id: c0a30b18-46e4-4447-b469-f8fd3bb1490a
PWA Site URL: http://pstest2010/PWA
SSP Name: Project Server
PSError: NoError (0))
Failed to grant 'DOMAIN\svc_psfarm' access to web application 'SPWebApplication Name=Portal'.
Error: System.Security.SecurityException: Access denied. Only machine administrators are allowed to create administration service job definitions of type: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdateWorkerProcessGroup, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationServiceJobDefinition..ctor(String name, SPService service, SPServer server, SPJobLockType lockType)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdateWorkerProcessGroup..ctor(SPTimerService timerService, String[] loginsToAdd, String[] loginsToRemove)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication.GrantAccessToProcessIdentity(String username, SPPolicyRoleType policyRole)
   at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Administration.PsiServiceApplication.GrantAccessToWebApp(List`1 webApps, String userName) The Zone of the assembly that failed was: MyComputer

Is the Test and Production in the same domain. If they are not, then the SIDs associated with the SQL accounts may look the same but they are not. At times, I have had to recreated accounts when in different domains.
I would also use PowerShell cmdlets and see if it finds any issues, such as Test-SPContentDatase.. Validate the SharePoint content databases, because if not setup properly the Provisioning will fail.
Also check these properties.
$web=get-spweb http://prodproj01/pwa
$Web.AllProperties[“PWAURL”] ### see what the value is.. you may have to blank it out, specially if it is pointing to a different URL
Here is how to fix.
$Web.AllProperties[“PWAURL”]=””
$web.Update()
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