The MVP summit is over. The past two days were spent in Room 2668 with the Project developer team. At this stage in the development cycle spirits are high and there are a number of good ideas floating around. Most importantly, the team seems to be reaching out to really try to understand their (current and future) user base. This is a marked change from what happened in Project 2007 where large portions of the design were already predetermined and the team charged straight ahead ignoring any and all distractions.
The amount of time spent with the teams is also an improvement over previous summits. There is still room for improvement, but Microsoft reversed the trend for MVP summits to be more and more about show and tell than they were about listening. This is enough to make me want to come back next year if I'm still invited.
Now I sit waiting at Seatac Gate N1 watching grey planes passing by the grey terminal on grey pavement, serviced by little grey vehicles under a grey sky. The splashes of yellow and blue paint on bollards and runways are a poor substitute for bright sun and blue sky. But I'll be on my way soon enough... soon enough.
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Glad you found the summit useful and good to hear we are listening. I really think you are too hard on Seattle - the mountains and blue sky look so much better after you have missed them for a while :).
Brian.
Posted by Brian Smith | March 16, 2007 10:19 AM
Posted on March 16, 2007 10:19
I have a problem in Using Project Professional 2007 with Project Server 2007. I am importing a project plan to Project Server. The wizard starts and everything goes fine. But on the last step of saving... the message in the status bar shows... Saving Job 0% Completed... Expected wait time 120 sec. and it remains 0% all the time. I have waited around 1 hour but nothing proceed and i cannot see that project on Project server as well. Even when i tried publishing it behaves in the same way.
I hope there is some way around it...
It appears that there are some problems with the queuing service in Project Server 2007. Log in and go to the server management area. From there check the queue and try restarting or clearing it. That may help. I think this issue has been logged with Microsoft so they should be addressing it. I have no information about when or how they will do that though. -Jack
Posted by Murtuza | May 11, 2007 1:24 AM
Posted on May 11, 2007 01:24
I have a problem in Using Project Professional 2007 with Project Server 2007. I am importing a project plan to Project Server. The wizard starts and everything goes fine. But on the last step of saving... the message in the status bar shows... Saving Job 0% Completed... Expected wait time 120 sec. and it remains 0% all the time. I have waited around 1 hour but nothing proceed and i cannot see that project on Project server as well. Even when i tried publishing it behaves in the same way.
I hope there is some way around it...
Posted by Murtuza | May 11, 2007 1:42 AM
Posted on May 11, 2007 01:42
I had the same problem too - Project 2007 gets stuck at Saving Job 0% Completed - expected wait time xx.
I logged in to the site project web access as the administrator, went to Server Settings, Manage Queue and then restarted a job which had seemed to have hung (order by Queue position number). AFter a few minutes it seemed to have gone through ok.
Posted by Simon | May 24, 2007 5:10 AM
Posted on May 24, 2007 05:10