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

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Expected result: approximately 100
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Since DocumentDB is still Preview i understand that it is not yet capable to handle my use case regarding throughput, collection
size, amount of collections and possible CUs and i am fine with that.
If i am able to (at least nearly) reach the stated performance of 500 inserts per second per CU i am totally fine for now. If not
i have to move on and look for other options…which would also be “fine”. ;-)
Is there actually any working example code that actually manages to do 500 single inserts per second with one CUs 2000 RUs or is
this a totally theoretical value? Or is it just because of being Preview and the stated values are planned to work.
Regarding your feedback:
...another thing to consider
is if you can amortize the request rate over the average of 200 M requests/day = 2000 requests/second, then you'll need to provision 16 capacity units instead of 40 capacity units. You can do this by catching "RequestRateTooLargeExceptions" and retrying
after the server specified retry interval…
Sadly this is not possible for me because i have to query the data in near real time for my use case…so queuing is not
an option.
We don't support a way to distribute throughput differently across hot and cold
collections. We are evaluating a few solutions to enable this scenario, so please do propose as a feature at http://feedback.azure.com/forums/263030-documentdb as this helps us prioritize
feature work. Currently, the best way to achieve this is to create multiple collections for hot data, and shard across them, so that you get more proportionate throughput allocated to it.
I guess i could circumvent this by not clustering in “hot" and “cold" collections but “hot" and “cold"
databases with one or multiple collections (if 10GB will remain the limit per collection) each if there was a way to (automatically?) scale the CUs via an API. Otherwise i would have to manually scale down the DBs holding historic data. I
also added a feature requests as proposed by you.
Sorry for the long post but i am planning the future architecture for one of our core systems and want to be sure if i am on
the right track.
So if you would be able to answer just one question this would be:
How to achieve the stated throughput of 500 single inserts per second with one CUs 2000 RUs in reality? ;-)
Best regards and thanks again

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Carol

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Hi all,
I got one basic question regarding SSIS 2010 Package where source is Microsoft Excel 97-2005. I wanted to know How this package works in production where there is no Microsoft office or Excel driver installed. To check that there is excel driver installed
or not, I followed steps: Start-->Administrative Tools--> Data Sources(ODBC)-->Drivers and I found only 2 drivers one is SQL Server and another one is SQL Server Native Client 11.0.
Windows edition is Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Service Pack-1 and System type is 64-bit Operating System.
We are running this package from SQL Server Agent and using 32-bit (\\Machine_Name\d$\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\DTS\Binn\DTExec.exe /FILE "\\Machine_Name\d$\ Folder_Name\EtL.dtsx" /CONFIGFILE "\\Machine_Name\d$\Folder_Name\Config.dtsConfig"
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Source=F:\Fares.xls;Extended Properties="EXCEL 8.0;HDR=YES"; and source is ‘Excel Source’
I discussed with my DBA and He said that SSIS is having inbuilt Excel driver but I am not convinced.
Could anyone please clear my confusion/doubt?
I have gone through various links but my doubt is still not clear.
Quick Reference:
SSIS in 32- and 64-bits
http://toddmcdermid.blogspot.com.au/2009/10/quick-reference-ssis-in-32-and-64-bits.html
Why do I get "product level is insufficient..." error when I run my SSIS package?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michen/archive/2006/11/11/ssis-product-level-is-insufficient.aspx
How to run SSIS Packages using 32-bit drivers on 64-bit machine
http://help.pragmaticworks.com/dtsxchange/scr/FAQ%20-%20How%20to%20run%20SSIS%20Packages%20using%2032bit%20drivers%20on%2064bit%20machine.htm
Troubleshooting OLE DB Provider Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 is not registered Error when importing data from an Excel 2007 file to SQL Server 2008
http://www.mytechmantra.com/LearnSQLServer/Troubleshoot_OLE_DB_Provider_Error_P1.html
How Can I Get a List of the ODBC Drivers that are Installed on a Computer?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2005/07/07/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-the-odbc-drivers-that-are-installed-on-a-computer.aspx
Thanks Shiven:) If Answer is Helpful, Please Vote

Hi S Kumar Dubey,
In SSIS, the Excel Source and Excel Destination natively use the Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider which is installed by SQL Server. The Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider deals with .xls files created by Excel 97-2003. To deal with .xlsx files created by
Excel 2007, we need the Microsoft ACE OLEDB Provider. SQL Server doesn’t install the Microsoft ACE OLEDB Provider, to get it we can install the
2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components or
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable or Microsoft Office suit.
The drivers listed in the ODBC Data Source Administrator are ODBC drivers not OLEDB drivers, therefore, the Excel Source/Destination in SSIS won’t use the ODBC driver for Excel listed in it by default. On a 64-bit Windows platform, there are two versions
of ODBC Data Source Administrator. The 64-bit ODBC Data Source Administrator is C:\Windows\System32\odbcad32.exe, while the 32-bit one is C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe. The original 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC drivers are installed by the Windows operating system.
By default, there are multiple 32-bit ODBC drivers and fewer 64-bit ODBC drivers installed on a 64-bit platform. To get more ODBC drivers, we can install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components or Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable.
Besides, please note that 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components only install 32-bit ODBC and OLEDB drivers because it only has 32-bit version, but the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable has both 32- bit version and 64-bit
version.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Mike Yin
TechNet Community Support

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IBM DB2 Express has been installed and configured.
Shared Services have been installed and configured.
Reporting and Analysis - System 9 Services have been installed and not yet configured.
Reporting and Analysis - System 9 UI Services have been installed and not yet configured.
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"An unknown CSS error occured.
Please check that the information entered is correct."
Messages from configtool.log file:
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(Aug 21, 2008, 09:32:32 AM), com.hyperion.cis.config.CmsRegistrationUtil, DEBUG, URL for CSS.xml = https://itblq001.wincor-nixdorf.com:58080/interop/framework/getCSSConfigFile
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(Aug 21, 2008, 09:32:32 AM), com.hyperion.cis.config.CmsRegistrationUtil, ERROR, Failed to authenticate user = LStoppa"
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Thank you for every hints.
Regards
Lucia

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How does failover and load distribution work in Operations Manager resource pools?

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I have a couple of questions in regard to failover and load distribution in resource pools.
What is the criteria for an x-plat or network device to initiate a failover?
How is load distributed in a resource pool - Is it round-robin, performance based or something completely different?
In case more than two management servers are in the same pool, and a management server becomes unavailable, how is load distributed among the remaining resource pool members?
Any help is appreciated.
Thx,
Claus

Hi,
Resource Pools are a collection of Health Services working together to manage instances assigned to the pool.
Workflows targeted to the instances are loaded by the Health Service in the Resource Pool that ends up managing that instance.
If one of the Health Services in the Resource pool were to fail, the other Health Services in the pool will pick up the work that the failed member was running.
And I would like to share this article with you. Hope it helps.
http://www.systemcentercentral.com/how-does-the-failover-process-work-in-opsmgr-2012-scom-sysctr/
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TechNet Community Support

Difference between a Detail Report and a Register

Hello all,
Very basic question.
What's the difference between a detail report, a summary report and a register report?
Regards,
Sam

Hi,
Please refer to the reports documentation as it should answer your question.
Oracle Reports Documentation
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/reports/documentation/reports-087551.html
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Hussein

Question regarding Dashboard and column prompt

My question regarding Dashboard and column prompt:
1) Dashboard prompt usually work with only for columns which are in subject area. In my report I've created some of the columns which are based on other columns. Like I've daysNumber column that is based on two other columns, as it calculates the difference of two dates. When I create dashboard prompt I can't find this column there. I need to make a prompt on this column.
2)For one of the column I've only two values 1 and 0. When I create prompt for this column, is it possible that in drop down list It shows 'Yes' for 1 and 'No' for 0 and still filter the request??

Hi Toony,...
I think there was another way of doing this...
In the dashboard prompt go to Show option > select SQL Results from dropdown.
There you need to write your Logical SQL like...
SELECT CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN PERIODS.YEAR ELSE difference of date functionality END FROM SubjectAreaName
Here.. Periods.Year is the column which is already exists in repository's presentation layer..
and difference of date functionality is the code or formula of column which you want to show in drop-down...
Also write the CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN PERIODS.YEAR ELSE difference of date functionality END code in fx of that prompt.
I think it helps you in doing this..
Just check and inform me if it works...
Thanks & Regards
Kishore Guggilla
Edited by: Kishore Guggilla on Oct 31, 2008 9:35 AM

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