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How fragmented are my BD's? - Microsoft Exchange

How fragmented are my BD's? - Microsoft Exchange

How fragmented are my BD's?

Posted: 17 Nov 2006 02:13 PM PST

"Clayton Sutton" <com> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

So, you tell him what I just told you. The data is defragmented as part of
the automatic maintenance of Exchange.
 

It means that your database contains some empty white space (which is not a
bad thing).
 

No.


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Public Folders - How do I...

Posted: 17 Nov 2006 01:24 PM PST

I know of no way to do what you want. You might see if the PFDAVADMIN tool
might help you automate this.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Franky M." <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Changed Role of w2k3 Server after installed exchagne 2003

Posted: 17 Nov 2006 04:57 AM PST

Reports in these forums have been that any such problems can be solved by
running dcpromo again to put the server back into the origianl state as when
Exchange was installed. Do you agree, Mark?
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Mark Fugatt [MSFT]" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

OAB Sync Error - 0x8004010F

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 09:41 AM PST

That did the trick.

Thank you every much.

"Ed Crowley [MVP]" wrote:
 

Loosing emails...

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 08:58 AM PST

Shaking my head! Exchange is installed on the D partion. The Bad Mail and
Queue directories are on the E partition. C is just the OS. But I checked
all of them a few times. Nothing.

"Franky M." wrote:
 

exchange & termSrv on th same machine

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 06:36 AM PST

Hi there,

Having Exchange and TS on the same machine is not a recomended practice.

If you decided to use an application that required a MAPI Protocal, you will
have all sorts of errors within the TS Session.

Security Wise, Do you really want your TS to be acccessible from the WAN
with an open door to the exchange?


"AnRa" wrote:
 

Flag Email in Mailbox

Posted: 15 Nov 2006 04:37 PM PST

Managements Idea was to look at the mailbox and see items in red... if there
were alot of them, they would kick some warehouse ass.

Instead they can look for anything that is not flagged.

That was their idea... :)

Thanks all the same :)

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
 

Internet VS Local email issues

Posted: 15 Nov 2006 04:49 AM PST

In news:phx.gbl,
Dennis Gaither <com> typed: 

I second Bharat's reply. Your config is never going to work efficiently, and
you're missing out on a lot of Exchange features. I don't know what your
company's setup is (with regard to remote users & what they currently
access), but you really ought to ditch the POP and host your own mail as per
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF002.html. There shouldn't need to be
any distinction between internet & internal mail.

Unable to save free/busy information

Posted: 14 Nov 2006 06:33 PM PST

They have no problem connecting to the public folder, and the default public
folder is listed correctly.


"Ed Crowley [MVP]" <org> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

Exchange vs Exchange hosted...

Posted: 14 Nov 2006 10:56 AM PST

In news:phx.gbl,
Mike <com> typed: 

With 100+ users you might find that hosted services are far more expensive -
much depends on the provider, tho. I know people who've been very happy with
www.mailstreet.com.

How to delete files and mails beyond recovery?

Posted: 13 Nov 2006 11:06 AM PST

the only way to delete email beyond recovery would be to set DIR to zero,
configure a mailbox management policy to delete everything from the deleted
items folder every night, not allow creation of pst files, not ever backup
Exchange, enable circular logging, and configure the SG to zero out deleted
database pages...even that probably wouldn't do it...it certainly would
throw a wrench into DR when the server crashes, or the DBs becomes
corrupt...

--
Susan Conkey [MVP]



"John7" <NoSp@m.no> wrote in message
news:ejafo3$9fk$zwoll1.ov.home.nl... 

Issue after Exchange move

Posted: 13 Nov 2006 09:14 AM PST

To be honest I don't remember. The customer continued the contact with PSS
after I left.
Give PSS a call and you will get the exact staus of the issue. It will be
free as it is for a hot fix.

/Simon
"Tim" <com> wrote in message
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Bespoke NDR

Posted: 13 Nov 2006 08:00 AM PST

Actually it does not work if you change it with XN Resource hacker but it
works if you do it with Resource Hacker http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/
It worked well for me. Again, this is unsupported approach.

Regards,
Dusan

"Dusan Kosaric" <com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Inherited Exchange Implementation

Posted: 12 Nov 2006 10:31 AM PST

Scott,

I know of this KB but in my experience I have not seen the occurrences
referenced in the KB. My largest client has 10 locations with 10 Exchange
Servers at each location with a fully meshed VPN. There are no WINS servers
on the network and Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2000/XP/2003 runs fine at all
locations. So it really depends on your environment. It does not hurt to
have WINS in place but I prefer not to implement it if its really not
necessary. You may repost again to see if any other MVP has experience with
WINS in larger environments of Exchange.

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2007
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Scott McIntosh" <Scott microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Exchange Move Failed

Posted: 11 Nov 2006 06:30 AM PST

Ok. I was able to move all my users out of that mailbox store and into
another one. This corrected most problems. I had to run /resetfolders and
/cleanreminders to get contacts and calander to show up. The only issue I
still have is if they add an appointment I get a popup that says unable to
save free/busy information. I tried the /cleanfreebusy buy that returns
unable to clean local free busy information. I used a MAPI editor and
deleted the local free busy for that profile and the same error still
occurs. It appears that the free/busy is working on the server but they
still get this error everytime. Any suggestions?

Tim


"Nick Gillott [MVP]" <co.uk> wrote in message
news:%23MZ1a%phx.gbl... 

a newbie question

Posted: 11 Nov 2006 01:42 AM PST

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:42:24 +0100, "filip" <hr> wrote:
 
You should either reinstall the application or do a trace to find out
what folders they can't access and then give the domain user the
necessary modify rights on those folders.

Either way this is an Exchange Server group, not a Windows or Security
related one (not that I haven't tried to help though)

Delete Public Folder Store in order to make another Info Store?

Posted: 10 Nov 2006 11:44 AM PST

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:54:02 -0800, Rory
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 
Thanks for postijng the link, that'll be useful to get up to 75GB. I'd
made the assumption that the OP wanted to get up to 150GB of email as
it's often asked. I hadn't given it a 2nd thought that the guy might
have thought has was still constrained to 16GB

WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\HTTPERR Question

Posted: 10 Nov 2006 06:58 AM PST



"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
 
Thanks Mark,

I took over this postion about 8 months ago and, looking back at other
folders (W3SVC## as an example, I have realized that logging is turned on but
no maintenance (cleaning) was ever done on any of these folders. There are
files dating back to 2004.

Rory

From local to domain, painless

Posted: 10 Nov 2006 01:15 AM PST

lot of info here, i will take a look thx for the tips
"Malke" <invalid> wrote in message
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send on behalf problem in Exchange 5.5

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 11:50 AM PST

Send As right is an user, not mailbox, right and is conferred in the user's
Security tab.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

<com> wrote in message
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Increasing Mailbox Size

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 10:38 AM PST

Bizzare.
Does the message receipt time actually match the time in the IS
schedule the messages go out in and with the frequency you expect?

I'd stick a limit in there (a big one) and then dive into adsiedit to
make sure it's taken effect. Enter a big figure (just under 2GB) into
the three fields, be sensible about the prohibit send/receive etc
though, and report back (by email if you want but better in the group)

exchange 2003 & 2000 together for messaging

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 07:46 AM PST

Hi Mark,
Just read your reply, I hope your weekend wasn't totally ruined after all.
Thanks for the advice.

Bill

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <org> wrote in message
news:com... 

Help, Cluster Service on passive node won't start

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 01:59 AM PST

The default path is %systemroot%\cluster\cluster.log

--
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Exchange MVP
http://www.msexchange.org/Neil_Hobson/
http://www.msexchangeblog.com


"Clayton Sutton" <com> wrote in message
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rpc http outlook 2003

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 01:14 AM PST

Exchange server name in Outlook profile settings should be abc.net

"Rach" <co.uk> wrote in message
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change Suse Linux from 1 hard disk to another on the same PC - Forums Linux

change Suse Linux from 1 hard disk to another on the same PC - Forums Linux

change Suse Linux from 1 hard disk to another on the same PC

Posted: 01 Jun 2006 05:10 PM PDT


"Bit Twister" <com> wrote in message
news:home.invalid... 

Backup first. Make copies of critical files to CD or DVD or another machine
or memory stick or *SOMETHING* before starting this.
 

Slow down.. Mount the second drive as master on the other controller, so you
don't have to play with the IDE settings of the drive, and so that you get
faster data transfer. This is not a big deal if you have auto-select cables
and drives, but most manufactures set the CD drive to force it one way or
the other.

In fact, unless you've got good backup, do this somewhere else.

Second, it's dangerous to duplicate a live OS. Databases are treacherous
about changing behind your back and not yet being written to the file
system. For this reason, it's extremely useful to boot with a live CD or
rescue CD and mount things by hand for duplication, rather than doing it on
an active OS.
 

Oh, goodness. Please read the manual page for t ar;

tar cpf - -C /old | tar xpf - -C /new

You've also seriously ignored the disk partitioning, and failed to mount
them correctly. And for cripes, sake, "/bin/cp -a /old/. /new/." is a single
command that is actually faster, and "rsync -avH --delete /new/ /old/" is
both fast and double-checks your work.
 

You also shouldn't try this stunt with swap partitions: it will lead to
madness.
 

This is handwaving.

Use the live CD or rescue CD I mentioned, after swapping the disks around as
necessary, to mount the new OS image partitions, do a "chroot" to them, and
run the boot loader from there.

Ask for details on that if you need it.

difficulty recompiling RHEL 4.2 kernel

Posted: 01 Jun 2006 09:09 AM PDT


"Dushan Mitrovich" <org> wrote in message
news:net... 

OK, so right now you have a mess: let's keep it simple for recovery.

cd [ kernel source tree ]
/bin/rm .config
make oldconfig
make mrproper

Should scrub the local source tree pretty thoroughly.
 

That's old advice: The Linux kernel build structure has been slowly
evolving, to match that of more sanely configured tools, so that "make" does
what you think it would and "make install" does too. And RedHat has also
patched the source trees a bit to do kernel installation more in keeping
with their tools, to automate the editing of lilo.conf and grub.conf to
include any new kernels installed. It's useful to do.

What I referred to with the "look at the kernel SRPM" was precisely what I
said, such as this one:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm

That's what RedHat uses to build their kernel RPM's from: reading the
"kernel.spec" file in it should walk you through some automated kernel
building processes, and how RedHat thinks it should be done.

The bit about using alternative names in .config or in the Makefile is
because it can be set in either place to give your new kernel a unique and
descriptive name, the way RedHat does things. In some other kernel bundles,
you need to (or used to need to) edit it directly in the Makefile or
Makefile.in to get a unique kernel name and avoid a newly configured kernel
having the same name and overwriting your previously built kernel.

optimal partitions during install...

Posted: 31 May 2006 08:59 AM PDT

Grant wrote: 
 
 

The US Civil Service Commission declared this poor physicist to be an EE before
the Navy put me to work as a manager.
 
 

Actually yes. Thanks.
 

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Installing Multiple OS on a Blade Farm

Posted: 31 May 2006 07:40 AM PDT

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<com>, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
 

Not only that, it eliminates a number of errors, and gotchas. You need
only figure out once what the install is to look like, and don't have to
remember that you need to install this, or that package.
 

Our original tool was created by a student intern as a "semester project"
back in roughly 1990 for SunOS-4.1.1 installations on Sparc boxen.
 

It really makes it so simple - especially when installing systems on an
on-going basis. Did package $FOO get a security update? No problem, you
just put the new package onto the file server, and change one line in a
script - at most.
 

I never counted, and I'm no longer on the crew that does the updates
every 18-20 months or so. When we were still on a 10 MB Ethernet, a crew
of admins each with 6 portable drives containing the new image went around
the building - connect the drive to the victim^Wsystem to be reinstalled,
mount it, and run the script, then go to the next system, lather, rinse,
repeat. Six drives allowed each person to be doing six updates at the
same time. As this was done on a weekend, there were no users getting in
the way. With switched 100BaseT and Gigabit net (both fiber and copper),
we can do the same thing with less bodies. Isn't modern technology wonderful?

Old guy

new modem on old pc help

Posted: 30 May 2006 05:09 PM PDT

Bill Marcum wrote: 

Try http://linmodems.org.

Remove kdelibs-bin package?

Posted: 30 May 2006 03:59 PM PDT

On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:59:01 -0500, com
<com> wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
 

Assuming you're running Debian Sid and are upgrading from KDE 3.5.2 to
3.5.3, kdelibs-bin is now provided by the kdelibs4c2a package.
Removing the package while upgrading shouldn't cause any problems; at
least, it hasn't caused any problems for me.


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out of range

Posted: 30 May 2006 06:40 AM PDT

Laci wrote: 

- and of course - you _do not_ want a graphic login!!
Change the corresponding entry in /etc/inittab to 3 (or 2 - depending on
your distribution). Now you at least have full access and can play
around with the X config-file ....

Even windoze gets the shivers if you change from one monitor to one with
a smaller resolution!!

-pbh-

Error: "The package jre needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it."

Posted: 29 May 2006 03:08 PM PDT

s. keeling wrote: 

Ouch. This sort of nonsense is why I'm wroth at Sun for their repeated
renamings of their packages. jre, j2re, j2se, j-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-th, for
cripes' sake just pick one!

Best general Linux reference books?

Posted: 29 May 2006 09:36 AM PDT

Thanks for the info, good stuff.

I'll have to check out some of those books at the library.

Moe Trin wrote: 

Knoppix boots, but emacs won't start

Posted: 29 May 2006 08:38 AM PDT

Thank you. As typical, I am busy doing other things, so I can't check
the disk. However, you really did answer my fundamental question. It
wasn't some sort of obvious operator error in booting the system--as
in, "Oh, to run programs, you need to login to a user account first."
Before I use the cd again, I will try your suggestions and have saved
the posting, so that I can do so. Burning another cd (after checking
the checksums on the iso file to make certain I got a good download)
might be the best solution. It doesn't seem reasonable that Knoppix
is broken the way I experience. Therefore, it must be a local
problem, e.g. a bad cd burn.


Thank you again, your advice was appreciated,
-Chris

SuSE 10.1

Posted: 28 May 2006 10:14 PM PDT

Yes, I had problems installing SuSE 10.1 on my Dell Latitude D610
(Laptop). Apparently, the live CD couldn't recognize my CD drive. I
managed to fix it by switching to SuSE 10.0. It's a pain to have to
download five CDs again though...

The same thing happened when I tried to install Slackware 10.2 (Same
computer), but I managed to get it to recognize by physically removing
and reinserting the drive before it was needed for recognition.

Heheheh... I try everything.

But now that Slackware is up and running, it recognizes my CD drive
quite nicely. Of course, this may have been the kernel update.

Good luck. If you're looking for XGL, you'll need it.

If you absolutely have to have 10.1, I have no idea. If you don't need
all of the updates, try 10.0.

cpuobsessed from gmail wrote: 

Ubuntu Hotplug Problem?

Posted: 27 May 2006 02:56 PM PDT


Billy Jean wrote: 

I solved this one. Thanks. :) It turned out that my USB hub was
confusing the system during the install. I disconnected the hub,
finished the install, then plugged it in again, and it works now. :)

FREE FREE FREE MONEY!!!!

Posted: 26 May 2006 04:09 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Felix Becker <org>: 
 
 

What would you expect from some IE user limited to use G2?
However your top posted reply in the wrong language wasn't that
bad either. ;-)

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#bofh excuse 80: That's a great computer you have there;
have you considered how it would work as a BSD machine?

Restrict entry Microsoft Project

Restrict entry Microsoft Project

Restrict entry

Posted: 11 Jul 2005 10:55 AM PDT

Thanks Reid,

As one Reid to another couldn't some VBA be written to restrict that? We
would like to restrict the PM from changing the total 'Work' or 'Duration' by
direct changes and only have then enter 'time to complete' on the task line
when reporting time to extend or complete early a task.

Does that make sense?

Jim

"Reid McTaggart" wrote:
 

How do I make overdue dates change colour

Posted: 11 Jul 2005 08:37 AM PDT


This NG deals with MS Project, not Excel. The Excel group is
"microsoft.public.excel"

Rita wrote: 

Project schedule consolidation

Posted: 10 Jul 2005 04:19 PM PDT


Hi Max,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might also like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #17 & 18 on Multiple Project s, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site, :)
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Max Currentus wrote: 

Scheduling field techs

Posted: 10 Jul 2005 03:59 PM PDT

It depends - if those field techs are doing identifiable and quantifiable
tasks in a project environment, sure. If they're doing ongoing line of
business service calls, not really. The key is whether there is a
schedulable piece of work with a concrete start and stop time at which point
it can be said it's been done for all time.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"jbiasella" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

How do I set up traffic light indicators in a Gantt chart?

Posted: 10 Jul 2005 05:49 AM PDT


You're welcome, icabar, and thanks for the compliment :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


icabar wrote: 

Cost in a Date Range

Posted: 09 Jul 2005 07:14 AM PDT

Hi,

Excellent news!
(Forgive me if I repeat things you might already know)
Alt+F11 brings you to the VB Editor
One of the toolbar icons is "Object Browser"Open it, look for
Timescaledvalues object and TimescaleData method
If you're oinly interested in data on task level (as opposed to the more
detailed assignment level) the heart of your procedure could look like this
Set TSV =
mytask.timescaledata(mytask.start,mytask.finish,pj tasktimescaledcumulativeco
st, _
pjtimescaledays,1)
......
'Search for the position of start and end dates in the Timescalevalues
'I call them B and F

mytask.cost2=TSV(F).value-TSV(B-1).value

OK?

Greetings




De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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"Peter" <com> schreef in bericht
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filter 
cost 

flexible range of occurence of a recurring task

Posted: 08 Jul 2005 09:51 AM PDT

Hi Pinocchio,

Sorry, not that I am aware of. In testing, even after adding additional
tasks and editing the summary recurring task, it does not pick up the new
project end date. I had to manually change the end date to equal the new
end date of the project.

There may be a way through VBA but I am afraid that is outside of my skill
range.

Perhaps another person(s) have a better idea.

Hope this helps.

Julie

"Pinocchio" <com> wrote in message
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Project Tasks as Outlook Tasks

Posted: 08 Jul 2005 08:57 AM PDT

Hio,

Allocatus has an option to show them as tasks OR appointments
At least in their documentation (part of which I translated)

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"mobileindy" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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the 
the 
up 
show up 
if 

Link my Project calendar my Outlook calendar

Posted: 08 Jul 2005 07:34 AM PDT

Maurice, that's awesome - does exactly what I want it to. Many many thanks.

Can I run a report in Projects to find a circular relationship?

Posted: 08 Jul 2005 07:02 AM PDT

I found one summary task with a successor. Removed the the link and the
project began to calculate one again.
Catfish Thanks JDM

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Is it normal to have many base calendars defined?

Posted: 08 Jul 2005 02:13 AM PDT

I tell my students that they should create a base calendar for each major
shift group and legal jurisdiction in which their project takes place. Here
in Canada, for example, the province of Ontario has different legal holidays
from the province of Quebec so if my project has resources in both
jurisdictions, I'll need at least one base calendar for each. If we work
around the clock, I'll need a base calendar for my day-shift workers,
another one for the swing-shift workers, and yet another for the folks on
graveyard. So now we're up to 6. I'd pick one of those calendars, the one
that is most generic, covers the majority of the workers involved in this
specific project, or even the nominal work hours at the project's
headquarters and make it the Project Calendar. Remember one of the basic
uses of the Project base calendar is to answer the question of "if I have a
task that can start Monday at 10am and will take 24 hours to complete, what
date and time will it finish?" Since work, hence progress, can only take
place when the resources are there to do it, the calendar is crucial to
determining which of the minutes during the 24-hour clock-day will buy you
some progress towards completion.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Pinocchio" <com> wrote in message
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enterprise resource

Posted: 08 Jul 2005 12:02 AM PDT

Gerard --

Thanks for the kind compliment! :)

--
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Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"Gérard Ducouret" <fr> wrote in message
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Enterprise fields VS Views

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 03:46 PM PDT

Angel --

Out of curiosity, what are you trying to accomplish? The Microsoft Project
Data Model governs the behavior of task, resource, and assignment fields.
Here's how the Data Model works:

Task fields are displayed in task Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups.
Resource fields are displayed in resource Views, Tables, Filters, and
Groups.
Assignment fields are only displayed in the Task Usage or Resource Usage
views.

Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"Angel" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hold out on entering dates?

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 02:56 PM PDT

90% of all projects are date critical but that doesn't mean you should
figure the dates outside of Project and pump them in as user input.
Remember that Project's reason for existence is to calculate the start and
finish dates of the tasks within your project. I like to think of it as
"you don't tell Project the dates you're going to work, it tells you the
dates you both SHOULD work and will BE ABLE to work." The fancy views and
Gantt charts are just frosting on a piece of schedule calculation software
but are not the reason it exists or the reason to use it.

When you enter dates in the Start and Finish columns for your tasks, the
Start date entry sets a "Start No Earlier Than" constraint and that says
that under no circumstances will the task ever be scheduled to start earlier
than that date. BUT it can be pushed later than that date no problem. The
same for entering a date in the Finish column - it sets a "Finish No Earlier
Than" constraint. If you enter both dates, the constraint is determined by
the last date entered.

Tasks can only happen when the predecessors and resources come together so
that everything required to do the work is in place. You might have a
commitment on 1/1/05 but the promise of delivery is not in itself enough to
make it happen - there are a myriad of other things that have to happen for
it all to come together on the 1st. Project's job is to take the was you
organized the work at the moment and tell you if you'll finish on schedule
or not. If not, it tells you the date you will hit the way things are
presently organized and a model that will let you experiment with changing
the organization - rearranging resources, for example - to come up with a
strategy that WILL have it hit the promised dates.

The hard dates you mention should be entered as deadlines. Project will
monitor them and tell you if the plan as you have presently entered it will
meet them or not. In the best of all possible worlds, you'd build the plan
in Project BEFORE agreeing to the commitment dates with the customer, prior
to negotiating the contracts, using the project schedule to determine what
is realistic and doable before promising the moon, but most of the time we
don't have that luxury unless you're lucky enough to work for a
project-driven company that has learned the wisdom of that approach.

I'm sure you feel that your situation is unique and you can't work the way
we suggest but believe me, it's not. If you try building the plan by
entering specific dates on which the tasks will take place it will be a
miracle if you end up with a usable schedule. I have yet to see an example
of such an approach that didn't end up with a "wishful thinking" plan that
bore no resemblance to what actually happened in reality when the project
was worked. Often it's a waste of the time spent building it because the
resulting plan was useless for real world work scheduling, failing to allow
proper progress monitoring, or to alert for emerging problems. Trust us,
you'll have a far better shot at hitting those "must hit" commitment dates
if you try it our way - we've been there before.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



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Are calendars related to each others?

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 02:48 PM PDT

Very, very clearly put!
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just 
calendar 
time. 

How to take care interruption to a task?

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 12:12 PM PDT

Work and duration are totally different measures even though both are
counted using the same units. Duration is *defined* as the total possible
working time between when the task starts and when it finished, regardless
of whether work is actually taking place continuously thoroughout that time
or not. Therefore you can't change the finish date and have the duration
not change for the same reason that you can't say 7 minus 4 equals 2, it's
simply not mathematically correct. On the other hand, work is the portion
of that time actually being converted into useful output. So if your finish
date changes, the duration MUST change because that's simply what duration
IS, the time between start and finish but Work can remain constant even as
the finish date changes. The resource is just working on that task at a
lower average rate with the new finish date. In your example, the task
duration started out as three days and the resource was working at 100%,
doing 3 day's work over the course of 3 days duration. Now the finish date
is pushed back by 2 days because the resource's work on it is interrupted.
He's still generating the same 3 days worth of output. So now he's doing 3
days of work over 5 days of duration for an effective effort units
percentage of 60%

HTH
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


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VB - Toggling the outline indent

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 10:41 AM PDT

Leo,
You cannot use a named argument in an "if" test. DisplayNameIndent" is a
named argument to the OptionsView function. There is no property in the
object model called "DisplayNameIndent", so you can't use it to check the
state of the name indent.

In fact, there is currently no property in the Project object model that
corresponds to the field in the dialog box. Check out the following article
for a list of the fields in the dialog box that DO have properties associated
with them:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/office/manage/project/projectvi.mspx

Best you can do is set the value using the OptionsView method, and set some
other variable or custom property to keep track of its state. Good luck!

Kevin

"Leo" wrote:
 

Template timelines starting at week -12

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 09:23 AM PDT

Hi Debbie,

DateDiff("ww", [Date1],[Date2], 1)

interval = "d" for Days, "ww" for weeks....
Replace Date1 and Date2 by any date field.
firstdayofweek = 1 for Sunday; 2 for Monday (optional)

Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

"Debbie G" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
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Can 
and 
tasks 
MS 
can 

Import data

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 09:19 AM PDT

Both. As needed - and programmatically. As to format - that is also what
I need to know - in order to import the data - how do I format the transfer?

"Brian K - Project MVP" wrote:
 

calendar & custom fields

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 07:43 AM PDT

Hi,

Format, Bar Styles, Text Field(s)
HTH

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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+32-495-300 620
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Reporting to Non-project users

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 06:47 AM PDT

Hi,

I don't understand.
I don't have Adobe, but I use one of these free pdf things called cutepdf
and it works.
PDF printers are supposed to print the same you would have on paper aren't
they?
Does it work on paper?

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
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the 
about 
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I 

How to force project not to split a task over multiple days

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 02:14 AM PDT


You're welcome, and good luck! :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


latearrival wrote: 

messy gantt charts and ordering tasks

Posted: 06 Jul 2005 10:13 PM PDT


You're welcome, Gemma :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


gemma wrote: 

Comparing resource names in VBA

Posted: 06 Jul 2005 04:12 PM PDT

In article <com>,
Kevin Towers <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Kevin,
First, let me answer your last question. Visual Basic has several
methods that can be used to compare strings. The best method to use
depends on what kind of strings (i.e. whole string, middle characters,
single character, etc.) are being compared. I use the Instr Function
quite often but I also use a simple If statement (e.g. If t.Text1 =
"bob" Then).

I haven't studied your code thoroughly but on the surface it seems a
little backward. The resource loop and task loops are not helping each
other. The outer loop will go through all resources, not just those that
are assigned to each task. In effect, if the runtime error didn't occur,
Flag5 will be set true for all tasks (or at least those tasks with
resource assignments). I don't think this was your intent. I agree with
Brian's response. Loop through the tasks and look at the assignment
property when comparing.

Also, I thought you wanted to look for a particular resource who was
assigned to all tasks in a given date range. If so, some type of input
is needed from the user to specify which resource. For this I would use
an InputBox Function.

Finally, without actually testing your code, I suspect the runtime error
occurs because normally there are no assignments on Summary Lines. When
the inner loop goes through the tasks the first one is likely to be a
Summary line and hence there is no resource name associated with the
task.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Project Server has returned error code -1

Posted: 06 Jul 2005 04:11 PM PDT

Ups! Sorry
Project Server 2003 in English
and the error its send when update task from Microsoft Outlook Calendar

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Microsoft CRM - Sales for Outlook through VPN connection

Microsoft CRM - Sales for Outlook through VPN connection

Sales for Outlook through VPN connection

Posted: 11 Feb 2005 08:57 AM PST

"Dave" <com> wrote in message news:<164f01c5105a$c5d15aa0$gbl>... 

Hi Dave,

We are using it through a MS VPN without any problems and with very
good response time. Can you tell me which VPN you are using and what
do you mean by Outlook crashes.

Regards,

2-way integration using callouts

Posted: 11 Feb 2005 05:29 AM PST

They may just be ignoring all updates made by the Integration User.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:36:05 -0600, "Jake Horn"
<com> wrote:

The Great Plains integration uses a user that gets bypassed.


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Redirect Help, Customise Sales Sections, Mail Merges

Posted: 11 Feb 2005 05:25 AM PST

see below...

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:37:09 -0800, LadyUK <microsoft.com>
wrote:

Thanks for the answers... I have edited some of the xml - any chance of
disabling the help button all together? 

re question 3 and citrix
The users have office - but not an individual machine - is this possible? 

Problems with add new field

Posted: 11 Feb 2005 04:01 AM PST

Hi

I want add new field to the opportunityproduct object but I get the follow
Error in the Eventlog.

dmLog: Failed to grant access to the regenerated view OpportunityProduct
after inserting new attribute 'attributename'

Source: DMSAPIN

I'm login as local administrator with crmroll 'systemadmin'.

Note, in other object's I can add new fields.

Why I get these Error and how can I solve it?


thanks Harald

What is a "large" database?

Posted: 11 Feb 2005 02:41 AM PST

You shouldn't have a problem at all as long as you do a few things to ensure
performance.

We currently have an in production implementation of MSCRM that has about
2,500,000 account records in it. It performs fine. The keys are limiting
the "All Accounts" type views and having a big SQL Server.

For this system the SQL Server is a 4 way with 16 gigs of ram and raid 10
HD. It is absolutely a beast.

We are not, and will not attempt to use offline functionlity or SFO so the
replication engine has been turned off.

You also should go and put filters on your reports so they do not pull back
all records, you could also remove reports completely and replace it with
SQL Reporting Services that you built custom.


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CRM 2005 (v2) Delayed

Posted: 10 Feb 2005 08:00 PM PST

You can always get the latest news on www.mscrmexperts.com

Look to the right and you will see the MSCRM news section with the most up
to date news.

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Multiple CRMs in one domain

Posted: 10 Feb 2005 05:35 PM PST

I would push back on this if you can. While the app itself can exist with
multiple installs, features like the Exchange Router need to be on a dedicated
Excahnge server. So, the same Exchange server can't route inbound email to
multiple installations of CRM. It can work for outbound email though.

Also, each install will require it's on SQL Server if you plan on using the SFO
client. The replication configuration won't work properly with multiple
installs o nthe same SQL box.

The business concern though here is larger. Are there users that might
have/need access toboth systems? What about the data? Are there common
customer records between the divisions?

They may be able to address their needs with a properly setup single install
with BU's and security.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:35:34 -0600, Benjamin Zachary <com.spam>
wrote:

I have a customer who is currently evaluating MS-CRM in one of their
divisions (10 users). However another division has decided to roll it out
but they are all in the same domain. Obviously I have several concerns with
the amount of AD integration, Exchange Connector etc.

Any documentation supporting this or has anyone tried it? If I have to I
can make the one division either purchase it and move ahead of schedule or
remove theirs completely. Just weighing my options.

Thx

Rename OU??

Posted: 10 Feb 2005 04:47 PM PST

Hi

It is actually not that difficult, I have changed the license key times
before. Just write an email to com and ask for help to change
it.

You could use the redeployment tool so you dont have to set it all up again
and reuse the data you have in the system

/Jakob

"Ronald Lemmen" wrote:
 

Changing the lead Primary Key?

Posted: 10 Feb 2005 01:57 PM PST

Hi Matt

Thanks for your help.

The problem is, I can customize everything but the primary key, which I
cannot remove. The primary key for a lead is the Name, displayed as Last,
First. Thats however not really relevant for us as we deal with companies
specifically.

Any ideas on how to change this?

"Matt Parks" wrote:
 

Picklist copying

Posted: 10 Feb 2005 01:43 PM PST

With the current architecture, there is no way to share the picklists. Whether
or not this will be in CRM 2005 is unknown at this time.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:59:07 -0800, "mkatsev"
<microsoft.com> wrote:

Matt! Are you 'confirming' that there is currently now official way to reuse
picklists in CRM 1.2?
Can we expect it CRM 2005 when Microsoft (my assumption) will itroduce
ability to create 'foreign' to CRM objects and many-to-many relations?
"Matt Parks" wrote:
 

limits the visibility of the records

Posted: 10 Feb 2005 07:17 AM PST

Hi,

Here is one example of how you could set this up:
* Create a role called "Manager" (or modify/copy a built-in role)
* For the objects on which managers should be able to view and modify
everything, give them "Organization" level access.
* Create a role called "Senior Sales Manager" (or modify/copy a built-in
role)
* For the objects on which senior sales managers should have the access you
describe, give them "User" level access (this will also apply to teams).
* Create a new Sales Person role, or modify/copy the built-in one.
* Create the same settings for the sales person role as you did for the
senior sales manager role. The difference will be that the sales persons
should not be members of the teams the sales managers are.

In order for the senior sales managers to gain access through teams, you can
share the relevant objects to the team(s).

As others have mentioned, you will need to ensure that no Sales Persons are
on the Senior Sales Manager teams and ensure no cross-team membership for
Senior Sales Manager teams.

If you can arrange it so that each team is its own BU, here is a way that
allows easier management:
* Do everything the same as above, except give the "Senior Sales Manager"
role "Business Unit" level access for the relevant objects.

--
Jay Grewal
Microsoft Business Solutions CRM

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