Project

The long awaited fixes to Project Server 2007 and Project Professional 2007 have been released today (July 15, 2008). Microsoft is calling it an infrastructure update rather than a service pack. I suppose this is because it covers a things like sharepoint and other office server infrastructure rather than a specific application.

What ever it is called, Project Server and Project Professional users will find a lot to be happy about. Among the fixes for Project Server are:

• Timesheets and My Tasks stability and usability improvements
• Queue Management user interface improvements
• Logging Tracing improvements
• Project Server performance improvements
• Project Server 2003 to Project Server 2007 migration fixes
• Database performance improvements to enhance the cube building process and Project
• Professional Save/Publish scenarios

Project Professional gets the following fixes:

• Cost Resources calculation fixes
• Improved Custom Fields stability
• Improved local Project Cache stability
• Fixed Excel Import problem

Many of these are quite welcome. A document with details can be found here:

Description of the update is here

Details on what is fixed are here

And the download...

Be careful about installation. There are a number of things to consider so read all the docs and of course, test before deploying to a critical installation.