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Project Porfessional 2010 crash by sync with SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010

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Hello,
I have a test environment with a SharePoint Foundation 2010 Server and a second server with SharePoint Server 2010 Server (incl. Project Server 2010). I have two Clients, XP SP3 with Project Prof. 2010 and Windows 7 x32 with Project Prof. 2010. The Server have the actually cumulative upates and the Project Clients have the last cumulative update.
Now, I create in the Project Professional a Project with 2000 tasks. I save the project in a new "Project Task List" in SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010, no problems. But now the problem, I have a new project with 4000 or 5000 tasks, when I start the first synchronisation to the server (SharePoint Foundation or Sharepoint Server) the list is created of the server with no tasks and the Project Client crash with a Microsoft bug report. The problem is reproducible with the two clients, with the two different server and with other project files.
Do you know the problem? And have you a solution.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:14 PM
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Hi,
Yes, I would expect Project Server should support that number of tasks in a schedule, see this thread http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/projectserver2010general/thread/1228ea41-ce2e-47ae-b23c-805d70c06ea1 for links on performance best practice.
With such a high number of tasks in the schedule, i would hazard that actually maintaining it and running the schedule may be quite difficult, have you considered cutting it down into smaller more manageable chunks?
Alex Burton
www.epmsource.com | Twitter
Project Server TechCenter | Project Developer Center | Project Server Help | Project Product Page- Proposed as answer by Gary Chefetz, MCITP, MCT, MVP Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:06 PM
- Marked as answer by Gary Chefetz, MCITP, MCT, MVP Tuesday, March 1, 2011 3:10 PM
Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:50 AM
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Hi,
Wow. 2000+ tasks using Sync to SharePoint is a pretty large schedule to be using that capability. I am interested to know how you are using this more to if there is potentially a better solution. Are your users updating status information via the list?
As for the crashing, is there any error raised on the desktop client event log?
One last clutching at straws idea - you may wish to investigate is how the list throttling is configured on the web app. Check out this post http://malikhan.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/throttling-new-features-of-list-in-sharepoint-2010-part-22/ for details. It could be an exception is being thrown which Project isn't handling and causing the error.
Alex Burton
www.epmsource.com | Twitter
Project Server TechCenter | Project Developer Center | Project Server Help | Project Product PageWednesday, February 23, 2011 9:27 PM -
I have set the ressources higher, but I have the same problems. With Project Server and PWA it is possible to sync 5000 tasks and more.Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:13 AM
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Hi,
Yes, I would expect Project Server should support that number of tasks in a schedule, see this thread http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/projectserver2010general/thread/1228ea41-ce2e-47ae-b23c-805d70c06ea1 for links on performance best practice.
With such a high number of tasks in the schedule, i would hazard that actually maintaining it and running the schedule may be quite difficult, have you considered cutting it down into smaller more manageable chunks?
Alex Burton
www.epmsource.com | Twitter
Project Server TechCenter | Project Developer Center | Project Server Help | Project Product Page- Proposed as answer by Gary Chefetz, MCITP, MCT, MVP Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:06 PM
- Marked as answer by Gary Chefetz, MCITP, MCT, MVP Tuesday, March 1, 2011 3:10 PM
Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:50 AM