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Windows XP SP3 windows updates not working with 100% CPU–this will sort it!
So I am setting up my new environment at home and I decided to create a Windows XP client machine for myself for the rare occasion that I need it to try out some functionality with XP or Office 2003.
So I install Windows XP Service Pack 3 into Hyper-V on my Windows 8.1 Pro machine and I find that the Windows Update will not install anything. In fact it just kept running with no errors and the CPU would stay at 100%.
Well it turns out that the first thing the Windows Update checks for is updates to Internet Explorer and if you are not up to date with the latest security patch (November 2013 at the time of writing) then you will run into this issue.
The fix… install the latest security fix for either IE6, IE7 or IE8 and then run Windows Update.
That’s it, you’re all done 
Original article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-Windows-XP-Update-Problems-Causing-100-Percent-CPU-Usage-399865.shtml
And the fix was found in the comments:
“The secret is to install the LATEST Cumulative Security Update for your version of Internet Explorer. This stops Windows Update from searching for any IE updates and blocks this update bug.
This is a recurring problem so the current latest version changes each month.
The latest updates are dated November 2013 (as of writing this). Download and install the update that corresponds with your currently installed version of Internet Explorer:
IE6: WindowsXP-KB2888505-x86-ENU.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41064
IE7: IE7-WindowsXP-KB2888505-x86-ENU.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41071
IE8: IE8-WindowsXP-KB2888505-x86-ENU.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41074”
Thanks to DougCuk for the comment!
For the latest security bulletins, go to this link assuming you are reading this after November 2013: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn481339
Search in SharePoint 2013..increased functionality makes it simple!
Good article about search refiner improvement’s in SharePoint 2013
One of the search features introduced with SharePoint 2010 was the concept of search refiners and this really gave power to the users to filter and work with search results. This capability was surfaced as the Refiner Panel in the search results pages and was driven by metadata values assigned to the content. The benefit of this was that users can work with large results sets and narrow down the search results based on meaningful business criteria.
Out of the box, the standard refiners were based on metadata generated directly by SharePoint and users were not able to configure these to their liking. The types of refiners that would typically be made available include Result Type (the type of file such as a Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel document), the Author of the piece of the document, the Modified data etc.
Whilst it was quite possible to add new refiners…
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SQL 2012 Quick pointers for SharePoint 2013 – SharePoint Community
Some good quick tips from SharePoint community site
http://sharepoint-community.net/m/blogpost?id=6614983%3ABlogPost%3A62150
#ProjectServer 2013 Project Center view failed to load #PS2013 #SP2013
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I have been working with Project Server for nearly five years since 2007 for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the UK, I have also been awared with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011. I am also a certified Prince2 Practitioner. This article has been cross posted from pwmather.wordpress.com (original article) |
I have seen this issue a few times now in Project Server 2013 where users see the error “View Failure The view failed to load. Press OK to reload this view with the default settings. Press Cancel to select another view”
Clicking OK gives another error: “You don’t have permissions to view any projects”
This isn’t the case in this example.
There are two scenarios that I know of that cause this particular issue, these are described below:
Note: My farm is in the Project Server permission mode.
For an existing user:
• Log in as User A, access the Project Center, access “View A” – all works great
• Change the permissions so that User A no longer has access to “View A” or delete “View A”
• Log in as User A, access the Project Center, User A will see the View failed to load error
For a new user – never accessed the farm before:
• Prevent access to the default Project Center “Summary” view for the Team Members Group but allow access to other Project Center views
• Create a new user (User B) that is only in the Team Members Group
• Log in as User B (a new user on the farm), access the Project Center, User B will see the View failed to load error
The ULS logs gives the following error:
Error is: GeneralSecurityAccessDenied. Details: User does not have permission to this view. . Standard Information: PSI Entry Point: Project User: i:0#.w|support\userb Correlation Id: 2f5e74c7-c751-e311-9419-00155d15d154 PWA Site URL: http://vm753/PWA SA Name: ProjectServer PSError: GeneralSecurityAccessDenied (20010), LogLevelManager Warning-ulsID:0x347A6230 has no entities explicitly specified. ea70589c-4f64-e059-ef52-a016cf63c1ed
InitViewReportInfo ViewUid:63d3499e-df27-401c-af58-ebb9607beae8 is not found. ea70589c-4f64-e059-ef52-a016cf63c1ed
The remote command PWAProjectGetProjectCenterProjectsForGridJsonRemoteCommand encountered an unexpected exception. ea70589c-4f64-e059-ef52-a016cf63c1ed
If you have removed the default Project Center Summary view, either removed access to it or deleted it (new user scenario), or removed any other Project Center views that users may have accessed last (existing user scenario), the known workaround at this point is as follows. Click the Projects Tab, select a view from the view menu then refresh the page. At this point the view will load and the Project Center will continue to load successfully.
When upgrading #ProjectServer #PS2010 to #PS2013, consider any custom project site templates #SP2013 #SharePoint
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I am a Project Server and SharePoint consultant but my main focus currently is around Project Server.
I have been working with Project Server for nearly five years since 2007 for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the UK, I have also been awared with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011. I am also a certified Prince2 Practitioner. This article has been cross posted from pwmather.wordpress.com (original article) |
I have seen this posted quite often on the Project Server forums so I thought I would write a quick blog post.
When upgrading from Project Server 2010 to Project Server 2013, you will need to recreate the customised Project Site templates. Project Server 2013 doesn’t recognise the Project Server 2010 project site templates. Project Server 2013 project sites now have a template name / ID of PROJECTSITE#0, Project Server 2010 project sites use PWS#0. This can be seen below:
2013:
2010:
When recreating the new site template in 2013, start with the “Project Site” template on the Collaboration tab found on the new SharePoint site page.
How to check the #ProjectOnline database usage #ProjectServer #PS2013 #SP2013 #SharePoint #SharePointOnline #Office365
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I am a Project Server and SharePoint consultant but my main focus currently is around Project Server.
I have been working with Project Server for nearly five years since 2007 for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the UK, I have also been awared with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011. I am also a certified Prince2 Practitioner. This article has been cross posted from pwmather.wordpress.com (original article) |
A quick blog post to detail how you can check the Project DB size in Project Online. With Project Online, each Project Web App site collection can have a 10 GB Project database:
To check Project database usage for Project Online, access your SharePoint Admin page in Office 365. On the Site Collections page, select the PWA site collection, then click Settings from the Project Web App menu as shown below:
This will display the Project Database Usage:
Should I display duration fields on the #ProjectServer PDPs? #PS2010 #PS2013 #SP2010 #SP2013 #SharePoint #ProjectOnline #MSProject
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I am a Project Server and SharePoint consultant but my main focus currently is around Project Server.
I have been working with Project Server for nearly five years since 2007 for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the UK, I have also been awared with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011. I am also a certified Prince2 Practitioner. This article has been cross posted from pwmather.wordpress.com (original article) |
The answer to this question in my opinion is no. In this blog post I will explain why using an example.
Firstly I have created a new test duration field on my test Project Server 2013 environment, this is called _duration.
For the purpose of this post, I also have a new Project Detail Page (PDP) that only displays the _duration field. A new project is created, the schedule it not important here, just the value you specify in the _duration field. As you can see below, I have entered 10 days:
Save and publish this to Project Server and take a look at the project in PWA. You can see the project in PWA as shown below:
Project Center:
Notice the _duration field correctly shows the 10 days.
PDP:
Notice the _duration field correctly shows the 10 days.
All ok at this point. Before we move on, I just want to show the project options for this project, specifically the hours per day:
Notice this is set to the default 8 hours per day. Update this to 7 hours per day. You will then notice that the _duration field correctly updates to 11.43 days:
Reset this back to 10 days then save and publish the project again.
The Project Center still display 10 days in the _duration field:
The PDP will show the incorrect duration in the _duration field:
The PDP’s assume the default 8 hours per day is used for each project. At this point the PM will probably think, lets correct the 8.75 days to 10 days. So lets do this, this is now correct in the PDP:
Great. Not quite, now take a look in the Project Center:
Notice the 11.43 days. Also check the Project Information in Project:
I was aware of this issue in Project Server 2010 but only just came across the same thing in Project Server 2013.
Hopefully that explains why I answered “no” to displaying duration fields on the Project Server PDP’s, it will save a lot of confusion with your Project Managers! As with all answers there is normally an exception to the rule and you can probably guess what that is. Displaying duration fields on PDP’s will be fine if your projects are 8 hour days 
Slides from Sharepoint Saturday UK co-presentation on Sharepoint Integration and BI
My friend and Sharepoint Architect Ben and I had a really good time presenting this session last Saturday.
With an ambitious presentation title the slides I just uploaded were used to decrypt that title before getting onto a Live Demo of CRM 2013 and Sharepoint 2013 integration using BCS, OData and WebServices. Then we moved on to “what to do with that data”, and created some interactive BI tables, charts and maps (flat) in Excel PowerView and the newly released PowerMaps (3D maps), to finally publish them onto Sharepoint on-premise in a PowerView Libraries and to Office365 in a PowerBI library (beta).
In those slides you can get access to our Office365 demo of PowerBI and Powermaps , just make sure you log in before opening PowerBI link on the left of this site, as PowerBI doesn’t work yet for anonymous users. (our demo site will be available only before 20th Nov.13)
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 French native Sharepoint Consultant living in London. A crossway between a designer, developer and system architect. Prefers stretching the limit of out-of-the-box features rather than breaking them into code. When not working with Microsoft Sharepoint François is often found on Web2.0 News sites and related social networking tools.
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Presenting @HSPUG Transitioning from #SP2013 to #PS2013 for #EPM / #PPM November 20th 2013 #MSProject #ProjectServer
One of my first tasks at BrightStarr is getting myself known in the area and what better way than to start presenting at the local user groups. So without further ado:
Transitioning from SP to PS for Enterprise Project Management
Presenter: Giles Hamson
As a Project Manager, challenges exist with determining what are the best tools to use to help you be most effective. Project Server and SharePoint are two different tools for Project Management that include their advantages and disadvantages.
In this session, you will come away with the following information:
- A high level understanding of how SharePoint and Project Server work together
- The benefits of enterprise project management
- Project management maturity expectations as solutions become increasingly more complex
About Giles Hamson
Giles Hamson has been working with collaboration technologies since 2001 and has been implementing SharePoint solutions from 2004; starting with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 whilst working in the Microsoft Dynamics division in Reading, UK.
Giles has worked in multiple roles throughout his career working as a business analyst, moving into system analysis and development roles.
After gaining experience across Linux, Solaris and Microsoft disciplines, Giles moved into consultancy within the education market creating learning platform solutions based on SharePoint and integration with 3rd party vendors. After several successful implementations Giles moved into consultancy in SharePoint and Project Server across multiple industry verticals.
- Giles has recently moved from the UK to Austin, TX and joined BrightStarr.
Also being presented at the November H-SPUG meeting is:
Bringing it all together with the Content Search Web Part
Presenter: Paul McCollum
Finally take full advantage of the power of search. Construct powerful IT Pro solutions using the Content Search Web Part, Keyword Query Language and the new query builder. Gain perspective on enterprise-wide events and content from a single location.
About Paul McCollum
A very early computing adopter, Paul has been programming for more than 30 years, writing his first lines of code in the 2nd grade. The past 20 years have been focused on the Portal space starting by hand with Notepad and Vi. 
He hopped over to SharePoint in 2007 and hasn’t looked back. More recently his role is as an Enterprise Solution Architect and Platform Manager at 7-Eleven. His current focus is around empowering power users and IT pros with rapid development solutions without code or with highly accessible JavaScript and jQuery. In his spare time, Paul contributes to technology forecasting news sites and coaches volleyball
Location
Microsoft Office, 2000 West Sam Houston Parkway South, #350, Houston, TX 77042 (http://binged.it/17PdJ46)
Date & Time
20th November 2013 – 17:30 till 20:00
Registration
If you manage to make it, come up and say hello 
New Country, New Job! #SharePoint #MSProject #SP2013 #PS2013
Ok, so it has been a while since I have been engaged with SPandPS.com and I see that lots of posts are still happening on a regular basis.
It is now time to fill you all in on why I have been so quiet and to promise that more posts will be forthcoming now that things have settled down.
So before the quiet period, I was Giles Hamson, living and working in the UK for Corporate Project Solutions as a SharePoint and Project Server Architect.
I am now Giles Hamson, living and working in the US (Austin / Round Rock, Tx) for BrightStarr as a Principal Consultant.
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So the last 6 / 9 months has been dialing down existing projects and selling / packing all my stuff in the UK, getting married to my gorgeous wife Michele (don’t mean to embarrass hunny but it is true, you are beautiful!), buying a house, emigrating to Round Rock, Tx, filling the house with furniture, driving tests, visas and all the rest of the stuff that comes with moving your world across the pond (don’t worry the cat made it safely!)
So, let the good times roll and the SharePoint (and Project Server) knowledge be shared!
You will see announcements and me turning up at the Austin and Houston User Groups whenever my schedule allows. I appreciate all the visitors who come to the site and I look forward to posting on a regular basis again!
SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans 
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