Brooks White, Sr. PFE SharePoint
I am a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer supporting SharePoint.
My customer uses Jive instead of Yammer for internal social media. Jive is housed in SharePoint 2013...
Date: 08/06/2018
This series covers the Microsoft Project 2016 and Project Online desktop client’s lesser known and...
Date: 04/26/2018
I was reviewing UserVoice input for suggestions about CSOM accessing Project Online and Project...
Date: 04/04/2018
My customer wanted to provide text notes to a resource about a task. The requirement that made this...
Date: 01/08/2018
I attempted to connect to my Project Online instance today with Project 2016 using my administrator...
Date: 01/08/2018
I assembled this list of what is new/deprecated in SharePoint and Project Server 2016 for a customer...
Date: 12/07/2017
My customer will be upgrading from Project Server 2013 to Project Server 2016 (all on premises). In...
Date: 10/09/2017
I'm deploying a single Office Online Server for my SharePoint 2016 single server farm and using...
Date: 06/28/2017
Testing a customer's database upgrade on my internal test servers, I ran into this problem again....
Date: 06/06/2017
Migrate-SPProjectDatabase : Error encountered while migrating project data in Content database. The INSERT permission was denied on the object 'MSP_RESOURCES', database 'PWA_Content', schema 'pjpub'.
I'm running a migration test from Project Server 2013 to Project Server 2016 and ran into a problem...
Date: 05/13/2017
"Sorry, this site has not been shared with you." on PS2013 databases restored to a different domain farm.
I recently began working with a new Project Server 2013 customer and restored a copy of the...
Date: 05/11/2017
GeneralActionCanceledBecauseServerEventServiceProblem (22002) Action cancelled because of a problem with the Project Server Event Service.
Today I was working on why a customer seems to be unable to delete nodes from their RBS table in...
Date: 05/11/2017
***** Update Jan 26 2017 The deadline has been extended....
Date: 10/29/2016
Problem My customer was setting up her first SharePoint 2016 server in a test farm and ran into a...
Date: 10/28/2016
I have been working on actual work hours mismatches between timesheets and project plans. Kate...
Date: 07/29/2016
The short answer: None that I can find and I'd like to learn about your experience in the comments...
Date: 06/02/2016
Periodic Tasks for Project Managers Daily Check the queue for Failed and Blocking jobs related...
Date: 04/04/2016
The Product Group wants to know how Microsoft can improve SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online,...
Date: 02/04/2016
This morning, I fired up my Microsoft Edge browser to connect to my demo tenant for Project Online...
Date: 12/18/2015
My customers are starting to send me questions about setting up timesheets for 2016, so here's...
Date: 11/25/2015
In performing some troubleshooting today for Project Online, I went to "Close tasks to...
Date: 11/13/2015
Email notifications are available now in Project Online! Turn on notifications in Project Online -...
Date: 10/26/2015
I thought I had posted about this already. Go to the Office 365 Customer Success Center to see the...
Date: 09/23/2015
If you are not subscribed to receive updates from https://www.mpug.com/, I would recommend you...
Date: 08/11/2015
I recently helped a customer upgrade from Project Server 2010 to Project Server 2013. In the course...
Date: 07/07/2015
I frequently build and tear down PWA instances on my test servers. Today on my Project Server 2013...
Date: 04/22/2015
Lately, I have been troubleshooting quite a bit in Project Server 2013's PWA and Project Pro...
Date: 03/16/2015
I have been setting up my Project Server 2013 multi-server test farm for a demonstration next week...
Date: 02/26/2015
Whether you're new to project management or a seasoned professional, it can be helpful to have...
Date: 02/14/2015
How to remove a single SharePoint server from your server farm. Performing these steps will remove...
Date: 01/30/2015
Periodic Tasks for Project Server Administrators Daily Check the queue for Failed and Blocking jobs....
Date: 01/30/2015
A customer pain point brought to my attention this week is related to linking tasks to risks from...
Date: 12/12/2014
Brian Smith has posted a very interesting blog article about synchronizing users in Project Server...
Date: 12/04/2014
The cardinal rule of permissions: Keep It Simple The highest rule of permissions best practice is to...
Date: 10/27/2014
I've always maintained a list of my own links to updates, but I learned of these two links...
Date: 09/29/2014
This link has been making the rounds lately and I wanted to share it. SharePoint patching...
Date: 08/26/2014
A customer asked me today if he could make changes to the Reporting database in his Project Server...
Date: 08/21/2014
The following MPUG article by Kenneth Steiness is a good introduction to the basics of baselining. A...
Date: 08/04/2014
Until I can figure out who to cross post between the Project Server PFE Team Blog and my own blog, I...
Date: 06/26/2014
Today, I learned about a PowerShell script that is already part of some of the diagnostic tools I...
Date: 04/02/2014
My favorite ULS logging PowerShell command is described here:...
Date: 03/26/2014
Problem: Team member with My Tasks set by Team Members template and the same for Global Permissions....
Date: 01/28/2014
I ran into a problem with a customer late last week that I had never encountered before. That's...
Date: 01/13/2014
If you are wondering what the differences are between Project Online and Project Server 2013,...
Date: 12/17/2013
On my test server, while attempting to upload about ten .odc files to the Trusted Data Connection...
Date: 08/19/2013
Today, I learned that Alerts and Reminders isn't available in Project (2013) Online....
Date: 08/16/2013
The August 2013 CU for Microsoft Project and Project Server 2010 and 2013 were released today....
Date: 08/14/2013
I ran into this problem again with a Project Server 2007 customer today. The project plan had more...
Date: 08/07/2013
Editing an enterprise custom field lookup table, I received an unexpected error with no other...
Date: 08/06/2013
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Project 2010 and Project Server 2010 has been released....
Date: 07/24/2013