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Service pack details
List of issues that are fixed in the service pack
Project Server 2003 SP 1 fixes the issues that are described in
the following hotfix packages:
830810 Description of the Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 hotfix package: October 24, 2003
830820 Description of the Project Server 2003 hotfix package: November 7, 2003
832872 Description of the Project Server 2003 hotfix package: December 5, 2003
832898 Description of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 hotfix package: December 12, 2003
833849 Description of Microsoft Office Project 2003 hotfix package: December 22, 2003
834696 Description of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 hotfix package: January 16, 2004
835217 Description of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 hotfix package: January 22, 2004
834717 Description of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 hotfix package: January 14, 2004
835736 Description of the Project Server 2003 hotfix package: February 13, 2004
837248 Description of the Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 hotfix package: February 28, 2004
838881 Description of the Project Server 2003 hotfix package: March 23, 2004
Project Server 2003 SP1 fixes the following issues
that were not previously documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
You experience unexpected behavior when you use the Week format
You may experience unexpected behavior if you use the
Week format to specify start dates for tasks in your project. For example, you
may find that the start date for the task is displayed by using a different
date from the date that you specified, or you may receive an error message that
is similar to the following:
Invalid date.
This
is not a valid date, or it is outside the range for dates, which is January 1,
1984 through December 31, 2049.
Type a date in the correct format: for
example, 6/15/00 or June 15, 2000.
The "Server extranet address" box is not empty when you delete its the contents
When you delete the contents of the
Server
extranet address box on the "Server configuration" page of Microsoft
Project Web Access and then click
Save Changes, the contents
of the
Server extranet address box is not empty as expected.
The
Server extranet address box contains a space
character.
You cannot link issues, risks, or documents to tasks in your administrative project
You cannot link an issue, a risk, or a document to a
task in your administrative project when you click one of the following options
on the "View resource assignments" page of Microsoft Project Web Access:
- Link Risks
- Link Issues
- Link Documents
When you try to do link an issue, a risk, or a document to a
task, you receive the following error message:
You cannot
link Item to this task for the following
reason:
- The task is an administrative time entry.
Note In this error message,
Item is either
issues, risks, or documents.
You do not experience this issue when you
link an issue, a risk, or a document to a task in your administrative project
by using the "View my tasks" page or by using the "Project Center"
page.
Issues and risks that are assigned to you are not listed on the Home page of Microsoft Project Web Access
When you view the
Home page of
Microsoft Project Web Access, you may find that although an issue or a risk is
assigned to you, you receive the following message under
Issues or under
Risks:
You have no active
Item
assigned to you
Note In this message,
Item is either issues
or risks.
This issue may occur if you are in a workgroup environment.
For example, this issue may occur if Project Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server,
and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services are located in one workgroup, and
Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 and Microsoft Project Web Access are
located in a different workgroup.
The Microsoft Project Web Access navigation bar appears on the "View and Upload Documents" page when you open a project in Project Professional 2003
When you use Project Professional 2003 to open a project
that is stored in Project Server 2003, click
Documents on the
Collaborate menu, click
Shared Documents, and
then click
All Document Libraries, the Microsoft Project Web
Access navigation bar appears on the "View and Upload Documents"
page.
Additionally, if you click
Shared Documents,
and then click
All Document Libraries again, or if you view a
task on the 'View my tasks" page, and then click
Go to linked
issues, you receive the following error message:
Incorrect Page or Navigation Stopped
Project is unable to
use the page URLOfPage to display the Project Guide
for this project. You can either open this project using our default Project
Guide, or you can retry using the page
URLofPage.
"Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'MSP_ASSIGNMENT_BASELINES' with unique index 'I_MSP_ASSIGNMENT_BASELINES'" error message when you save a project
When you save a project to Project Server 2003 that
contains baseline information, you may receive the following error message:
[Microsoft]{ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot
insert duplicate key row in object 'MSP_ASSIGNMENT_BASELINES' with unique index
'I_MSP_ASSIGNMENT_BASELINES'.
This issue may occur if you save the
project immediately after you delete a previously saved project that contains
the same baseline information. In this situation, the stored procedure that
deletes information from the MSP_ASSIGNMENT_BASELINES table in SQL Server
incorrectly processes the delete operation.
Data is missing from Portfolio Analyzer view after you upgrade Microsoft Project Server 2002 to Project Server 2003
When you view the Portfolio Analyzer view of a project
on the "Portfolio Analyzer" page of Microsoft Project Web Access after you
upgrade Microsoft Project Server 2002 to Project Server 2003, you may find that
certain data that was published before the upgrade operation is missing. This
issue occurs if the date and time entries in the
AssignmentTimeStart column of the MSP_VIEW_PROJ_ASSN_TP_BY_DAY table in the Microsoft
Project Server database are incorrectly processed during the upgrade operation.
Data may be missing for projects that contain assignments that occur on the
last day of the date range that is specified by the online analytical
processing (OLAP) cube.
A Windows SharePoint Services Web site is not created after you publish a project to Project Server 2003
After you publish a project to Project Server 2003, a
Windows SharePoint Services Web site is not created for the project, and you
experience the following symptoms:
This issue may occur if the name of the project contains an
ampersand "&" character (without the quotation marks).
E-mail notifications are not sent if the address in the From address box contains one or more spaces
If the e-mail address that you specify in the
From address box of the "Notifications and reminders" page of
Microsoft Project Web Access contains one or more spaces, Project Server 2003
does not send the e-mail message. You do not receive an error message when this
issue occurs.
Certain values that you specified for tasks in your project are unexpectedly blank when you edit and view your project by using the Project Center page
When you edit your project by using the Project Center
page in Microsoft Project Web Access, you may find that certain values that you
specified for tasks in your project are unexpectedly blank after you save the
changes that you made to the project. For example, if you open your project by
using the Project Center page, modify an outline code, and then save your
changes, you may find that the
Duration box for tasks in your
project is empty.
The "Project Web Access Assignment Notes" dialog box for a task does not notify you that you cannot save new information to the Notes history area
When you open a note that is added to a task on the
"View my tasks" page in Microsoft Project Web Access, type text in the
Notes history area of the
Project Web Access
Assignment Notes dialog box, and then click
OK, the
text that you type is not saved to the note. The
Project Web Access
Assignment Notes dialog box does not contain any information to notify
you that the
Notes history area is read-only and that new
information cannot be saved to this area.
The baseline bar on the View a Project page in Microsoft Project Web Access unexpectedly displays actual work
After you enter the actual work that is performed for
tasks in a project, and then publish the updated information to Project Server
2003, the baseline bar may display incorrect information. When you view your
project in Tasks Tracking view on the View a Project page of Microsoft Project
Web Access, the baseline bar for the project unexpectedly displays the actual
work.
Project Server 2003 database is in an inconsistent state after you use the ResourcesAdd method to add two resources that use the same user name in the same request
When you use the
ResourcesAdd method to add two resources that use the same user name to the
Enterprise Resource Pool in Project Server 2003 in the same request, you do not
receive an error message. The operation appears to complete successfully.
However, only one of the resources is added. When you view the Project Server
2003 database, two new entries are created in the MSP_RESOURCES table and in
the MSP_TEXT_FIELDS table. However, only one new entry is created in the
MSP_WEB_RESOURCES table. Therefore, the database is in an inconsistent state.
This issue occurs regardless of whether the corresponding user accounts in
Microsoft Windows are the same or are different.
Category permissions for the Administrators group are unavailable (appear dimmed) in Microsoft Project Web Access
When you work with categories in Microsoft Project Web
Access, and you click
Administrators under
Users and
groups with permissions on the Modify Category page of an existing
category or on the Add Category page of a new category, the permissions that
are listed in the
Permissions table are unavailable (appear
dimmed). You cannot edit permissions for the Administrators group in any
category.
"Page cannot be found" error message when you use Microsoft Project Web Access to search for content in a document library in the Swedish version of Project Server 2003
You may find that you cannot use Microsoft Project Web
Access to search for content in a document library in the Swedish version of
Project Server 2003. When you connect to a document library, type a search
string in the
Search box, and then click
Go,
you receive the following error message:
Page cannot be
found
This issue occurs because a string that is used by the search
functionality is localized incorrectly, and an incorrect URL is
returned.
Cursors in Project Server 2003 do not use the fast forward-only read-only cursor feature
Cursors in Project Server 2003 use the default cursor
declaration and are not optimized to use the fast forward-only, read-only
cursor feature.
The Users page in the Japanese version of Project Server 2003 contains incomplete information
Incomplete information appears on the Users page of
Microsoft Project Web Access in the Japanese version of Project Server 2003.
When you log on to Microsoft Project Web Access, click
Admin,
and then click
Manage users and groups, the sentence that
appears under the following buttons is incomplete:
- Add User
- Modify User
- Deactivate User
- Merge User Accounts
The sentence is incorrectly localized and does not read as
follows: Select a user to view the user's properties,
or to add, modify, delete, or merge users.
Outline levels of a project are not displayed on the Updates page in Microsoft Project Web Access
The Updates page in Microsoft Project Web Access does
not display the outline levels of a project. Because only the top-level summary
tasks and specific tasks are displayed on the Updates page, you cannot
distinguish between tasks that use the same names that are contained in
different outline levels.
"An error occurred while exporting the grid to Excel." error message when you click "Export Grid to Excel" in Microsoft Project Web Access
When you click
Export Grid to Excel on
the Project Center page in Microsoft Project Web Access to export the project
grid to Microsoft Excel, you may receive an error message that is similar to
the following:
An error occurred while exporting the grid
data to Excel. Because of this error, you can only copy XML data to the
Clipboard.
Do you want to continue?
This issue occurs if
the project contains more than eight outline levels.
The "View my tasks" page for a resource contains incorrect assignments after you update your project in Microsoft Project Web Access
After you click
Update on the Updates
page in Microsoft Project Web Access to update your project with new
assignments, resources may not be assigned to the correct tasks when a resource
views their assignments on the "View my tasks" page. This issue may occur if
the following conditions are true:
- A resource uses Microsoft Project Web Access to assign him
or her self to a task, and then updates the timesheet on the "View my tasks"
page.
- The task has an existing assignment.
In this situation, the tasks that are listed for the resource on
the "View my tasks" page may be incorrect.
Project Server 2003 takes a longer time than expected to process views
In certain situations, Project Server 2003 may take a
longer time than expected to generate views for a project. The performance of
the Project Server Views Processing Service service may be slow.
Grouping of tasks is not restored to use the previous setting when you click
Revert on the View a Project page in Microsoft Project Web Access
When you view a project on the View a Project page in
Microsoft Project Web Access, click
Group by to organize the
tasks into a group by using the options that you want, and then click
Revert, you may find that the grouping of the tasks is not
restored to the previous setting.
For example, if the tasks in the
project are listed in numeric order, and you click
Task Name
in the
Group by box to organize the tasks by task name, and
then you click
Revert, the tasks are not listed in numeric
order as expected.
Resources are not leveled after you synchronize the Enterprise Resource Pool with Active Directory
After you synchronize the Enterprise Resource Pool with
an Active Directory group in Microsoft Project Web Access, resources in your
project are not leveled as expected. When you click
Level
Resources on the
Tools menu in Project Professional
2003, and then click
Level Now, tasks that are assigned to the
resources are not rescheduled. This issue occurs because a leveling setting is
not set correctly for resources that are added to the Enterprise Resource Pool
by the synchronization operation.
"You cannot hide this task for one of the following reasons" error message when a resource tries to hide a task in Microsoft Project Web Access
When a manager removes a resource from a task in an
administrative project, a black "X" appears next to the task as expected when
the resource logs on to Microsoft Project Web Access, and then views the "View
my tasks" page. However, the resource cannot hide the task. If the resource
clicks the task, and then clicks
Hide, the resource receives
the following error message:
You cannot hide this task
for one of the following reasons:
- It is a delegated task that you are a lead for
- It is a summary task with existing tasks
- It is a nonproject time task defined by the server
administrator
- It is a task transferred from Outlook
There is no option to add a ResourceNames field to the Timesheet view in Microsoft Project Web Access
When you modify the Timesheet view on the Modify
Timesheet View page of Microsoft Project Web Access, there is no option to add
a field to the view that can display the names of all the resources that are
assigned to tasks in a project. Microsoft Project Server 2002 included a
ResourceNames field. The
ResourceNames field
is not listed as an option in the
Available fields list in
Project Server 2003.
Tasks that are pending approval are unexpectedly listed on the "View my tasks" Web page when you click the URL in a progress request e-mail message
When a team member opens a progress request e-mail
message, and then clicks the URL in the e-mail message to view the tasks that
require a progress update, only tasks that appear in the
Tasks pending
manager's approval list are displayed on the "View my tasks" page in
Microsoft Project Web Access. This issue occurs because Project Server 2003
uses an incorrect filter to list the tasks that require a progress update. The
filter that is used lists the tasks that are pending approval from the manager
and does not list the tasks that require a progress update.
"An error occurred while completing the operation" error message when you click Save Changes on the Modify Category page in Microsoft Project Web Access
When you click
Save Changes on the
Modify Category page of a category in Microsoft Project Web Access, you may
receive the following error message:
An error occurred
while completing the operation.
This issue may occur if a user whose
account status is set to
Inactive is listed in the
Users and groups with permissions box of the Modify Category
page of a category.
Project Server 2003 incorrectly processes certain error codes for publish operations
Project Server 2003 incorrectly processes the error
codes for certain errors that may occur during publish operations. When this
issue occurs, the error codes are not returned to Project Professional 2003
when you publish a project to Project Server 2003.
You cannot use the ProjectTasksCreate method to add a task to a project if the ID parameter is not specified
When you use the
ProjectTasksCreate method to add a task to a project, you may find that the task is
not added to the project. This issue occurs if you do not specify an
ID parameter for the task.
New task assignments are unexpectedly listed on the "View my tasks" Web page when you click the URL in a canceled task notification e-mail message
When a manager deletes a task from a project, and then
publishes changed assignments for that project, the URL that appears in the
e-mail message that the team members receive contains an incorrect URL. When
the team member clicks the URL in the e-mail message, the "View my tasks" page
in Microsoft Project Web Access does not list the tasks that were deleted from
the project as expected. This issue occurs because the URL in the e-mail
message contains an incorrect filter. The filter that is used lists the new
tasks that are assigned to the team member and does not listed the tasks that
were deleted by the manager.
Text is missing from notes that are pending approval on the "View task changes submitted by resources" page after you become the new manager for the project
When you republish the assignments for a project by
using the
Become a manager for these assignments option, and
then you view tasks that are pending approval on the "View task changes
submitted by resources" page in Microsoft Project Web Access, you may find that
text that was added to a note in a task before you became manager of the
project is missing from the note. You cannot approve the text in the note
because the text no longer appears in the note.
Changes that you make to a resource calendar are not saved
When you change the calendar of an enterprise resource
more than one time, any additional changes that you make to the calendar are
not saved. You may find that changes that you make to calendars of other
enterprise resources are not saved. For example, this issue may occur in the
following situation:
- You check out an enterprise resource, change the working
time for certain dates on the calendar, and then save and close the
resource.
- You check out the same enterprise resource, change the
working time for the same dates on the calendar that you made changes to in
step 1, and then save and close the resource.
Additional improvements that the service pack includes
For more information about the differences in Project Server 2003 after you install Project
Server 2003 SP1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
875304
Notification and reminder e-mail message codes that are supported by Project Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Known issues
Known issues that may occur during installation of the service pack
The Setup program may not display any messages on the screen during certain parts of the upgrade operation
When you upgrade Project Server 2003 to Project Server
2003 SP1, and the Project Server 2003 database is large, the Setup program may
not display any messages during certain parts of the upgrade operation to
notify you that the upgrade operation is running. The upgrade operation may
appear to stop responding (hang). However, although no messages appear on the
screen, the upgrade operation is still running. Depending on the size of the
database, the upgrade operation may take several hours to complete. For
example, the Setup program may take two hours to upgrade a database that is 5
gigabytes (GB). During this time, the Setup program may not display any
messages on the screen.
Known issues that may occur after the service pack is installed
You cannot connect to the server if you are running Project Server 2003 SP1 and the original release version of Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 on the same server
After you install Project Server 2003 SP1 on the server,
you may find that you cannot connect to the server by using Project
Professional 2003. This issue occurs if the following conditions are true:
- Project Server 2003 SP1 and Project Professional 2003 are
installed on the same server.
- You upgrade the installation of Project Server 2003 on the
server to Project Server 2003 SP1 but you do not upgrade the installation of
Project Professional 2003 on the server to Project Professional 2003 Service
Pack 1 (SP1).