How to Create and publish new Project from MS PROJECT 2010 to MS PROJECT SERVER 2010

Hi,

let me show you hot to create a brand new Project in MS PROJECT PROFESSIONAL 2010, and then hot to Publish it into MS PROJECT SERVER 2010!

First I will open MS PROJECT PROFESSIONAL 2010 and I will connect it to MS PROJECT SERVER 2010:

and then:

Remember, that you DO NOT have to be Administrator for Publishing the Project, as long as you have rights to do it!

I will get:

I will change the Project name and I will add some Tasks:

and some Resources:

and finally I will assign Resources to Tasks:

Now I am going to save this Project:

and I will get:

I typed the name! for now forget all other fields! I will cover them in my next posts! When I click on Save button the Project is Saved!

Let’s see! I am logged at my PWA!

and I will get:

NOTHING! Is it a Bug? No it is not! My Project is not Published yet, so it is invisible here! how do you know that I am not an liar? I will try to exit MS PROJECT 2010 Professional and I will get:

and I will get:

So it is a warning message that I did not check in Project to Project Server. I will show you another way!

Since I am logged as an Administrator I will go here in my PWA:

and then:

and here it is:

But where exactly is this Project? In a Draft Database!

Now I will reopen my MS PROJECT 2010 Professional again and I will open my Project:

and I will get:

I’m going to publish this Project:

and I will get:

and then, when I look at the PWA Project Center I can see My Project:

The Project is now in Published database!

Regards!

About Nenad Trajkovski

Location: Zagreb, Croatia Occupation: Project Manager Interests: Project Management and MS PROJECT He was born in Zagreb, Croatia at 1963. After completing his college he started working on projects in different business areas (banking, manufacturing, automotive industry, distribution, oil companies, etc.) developing and implementing ERP systems into different companies. He has got a lot of experience working with people in different business processes and also possesses great knowledge in information technologies and financial services. Today he works as a business consultant, adn Project Manager in PERPETUUM MOBILE d.o.o. Zagreb. He is a regular lecturer for Project Management in MS Innovation Center in Varaždin, Logosoft Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina and SEAVUS GROUP in Skopje Macedonia. He was named the best lecturer of WINDAYS 2008 while his lecture was also voted as the best. In addition, he was in TOP 10 lecturers at the MS SINERGY 2009 and MS VISIA 2009, 2010. Shares first place as the best lecturer of KulenDays 2009 and 2010 and PMI Conference 2009 in Zagreb. He is also a regular lecturer in the MS Community. He is a Certified Accountant and a PMP (Project Manager Professional) and a PMI-RMP (Risk Manager Professional), MCP, MCT, and Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist - Microsoft Project 2010. From 01.01.2012 awarded with MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Proffesional - Microsoft Project)!

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6 Responses to How to Create and publish new Project from MS PROJECT 2010 to MS PROJECT SERVER 2010

Kevin Trotter says:

March 28, 2013 at 9:23 am

Hi, Nice work by the way!!!… I was wondering if you could advise me? We are developing a Server 2010 instance and have managed to install and deploy. We have published several projects and would like to start developing reports, however when we log in to SQL server management studio there are no tables or views in ProjectServer_Reporting. I was under the impression the reporting database would be built when the first project was published. I have tried rebuilding the reporting database to no avail!! Any ideas or help would be much appreciated.

- Nenad Trajkovski says:
  
  April 2, 2013 at 7:45 am
  
  No idea! It should be there! 😦
  
phu ha says:

November 1, 2012 at 3:06 am

Sir,
I’m really impressed with all the works that you’ve done, and your robust knowledge about project pro and microsoft project server. I have one situation right now with my PWA and project pro for one particular project.
In the PWA view, I can see the ID and the sequences of the tasks in the right sequences from 1-67, But when I open it with Project Professional, some tasks are not in the right place, and whenever I changed it, moved the tasks to it appropriate place, saved and published the project; It didn’t work the next time I open it.

one thing that I noticed from Project Pro, when I moved 1 task, for example, task 3 to it right place before task 4, clicked saved, and published, but if I click the Gantt Chart button in the Task ribbon, it will move my task from the right place to the wrong place.

Please help me with this problem, I really appreciate it.

- Nenad Trajkovski says:
  
  November 4, 2012 at 1:05 pm
  
  It is very strange behavior! I will try it and I’ll let you know!
  At the moment I am very busy! Can you wait two weeks?
  
  - phu ha says:
    
    November 5, 2012 at 3:33 pm
    
    thanks you Sir. I can wait for two weeks, during this time, where should I look for logs or errors code that can help me?
  - Nenad Trajkovski says:
    
    November 5, 2012 at 5:14 pm
    
    That behavior is not a Bug. I will explain