Showing posts with label Project Server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project Server. Show all posts

Sunday 20 March 2016

Project Server 2013 Overview Notes

Project Server 2013 is a Service Application and part of SharePoint Server 2013.  You install the on-prem. version on a SP2013 farm and need to follow the best practices for your SharePoint farm.
  • A Project Web Application (PWA) is a a single site collection.  
  • Consider storing each PWA in it's own content database.
  • Each PWA site collection is made up of multiple projects (each project has it's own SharePoint sub site).
  • Project 2013 online or a project server 2013 on-prem are the hosting options.
  • OData services for reporting, Excel can be used to create and view reports.  This is the approach to use on Project Server Online.  Each PWA instance on-prem. can add OLAP cubes from the PWA manage SSAS screen, once the default cubes are generated, it easy to query using Excel or SSRS (assuming you have the infrastructure). 
  • A single Project Web App database for each Project Server 2013 instance whereas in Project Server 2010, each instance had 4 Project Server databases (Draft, Publish, Reporting, and Archive).
  • Upgrade to Project Server 2016 from Project Server 2013 only.
  • PWA manages security and WSSSync manages the security syncronisation with the SharePoint project sub sites.
  • No user management in PWA, now all done in SharePoint assuming SharePointPermissionMode.  SharePointPermissionMode done in SP not in PWA (What ProjectPermsissionMode), pref SharePoint permissions mode.  oldproj server guys prefer ProjectPermissionMode say it gives more fine grained security control.
  • PWA Security explained https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/fp161361.aspx
  • To access Project Server 2013 with the Project Server client application (desktop software) you can't use the Standard edition but need the pro edition (Microsoft Project Server professional 2013).
FluentBooks from FluentPro looks good for ALM between environments and PWA instances:
  • Desktop tool - Offline Management - download configuration & then uploads configuration to the new PWA
  • Is there anything to install on the farm? No
  • Ports needed? 80 or 443 Uses web Services (PSI & CSOM when uploading change).
  • Highly configurable such as mapping account between domains as we move environments.


Archiving between 2 PWA instances using FluentBooks
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  1. Download/Export projects into a FBB file(s), new project professional client.  Gets the Project data.
  2. Download SharePoint sub sites
  3. Upload FBB file to archive PWA 
  4. Upload sub-sites into the archive PWA


More Info:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff631142.aspx  Project Server 2013 and SharePoint Security
https://www.fluentpro.com/productsfluentbooks.htmll  FluentBooks website

Alternative:  
Bamboo Solutions appear to have a good Project Management Solution that has gone thru several iterations.  Project Manager Central sits on SharePoint 2007, SP2010 or SP2013.  Similar concept to Project Server, Portfolio site is a site collections and then project sites are sub-sites.  There is also an option to have Department sites whereby a sub site is created that subscribes to multiple project sites.