Newly Published Content - Project Server Post SP1 Infrastructure Update

The Infrastructure Update for Project Server 2007 (and Project Professional 2007) has been released and is now available for download. For a  thorough explanation of the Project Infrastructure Update including download information, installation instructions, FAQ's, and links to knowledge base articles, I suggest reading Christophe Fiessinger's Blog or the Office Project Blog.

Published the week of July 14, 2008

Project Server 2007 Infrastructure Update Release   

This white paper covers the new features and changes associated with the Project Client and Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007.

Deploy the Infrastructure Update for Office Project Server 2007  

This article describes how to install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.

Report Data Service optimizations for custom fields  

This article provides some tips and examples that can help optimize custom reporting solutions built for the Reporting Database (RDB) of Office Project Server 2007. If you are interested in building custom views or applying custom indexes on any views in the RDB, read this article for some helper stored procedures that can be used in conjunction with your solutions.

Updated the week of July 14, 2008

Back up and restore your farm (Project Server 2007)  

With the new Infrastructure Update, the globally unique identifier (GUID) and change log of each content database are retained when you restore or re-attach the database. Therefore, if you are reattaching a recent database version, Search does not need to perform a full crawl to integrate the reattached content database. This is a substantial improvement over the RTM release of the product.