Office Project doesn’t save/publish or Queue hangs in Project Server 2007

If you are working on a project using Office Project 2007 to list out all the tasks and when you publish the project after completion,

 there might be a indefinite pause for publishing the project. The Resources allocated might not be notified of the changes. If you notice the office project status bar, you will notice that it is expected to complete in 2sec and it stays still.

What happens is, the job stays in the queue on the project server. The purpose of the Office Project Server 2007 Queuing System is to handle these abrupt changes in demand gracefully and reliably. The Queuing System takes all the users’ input, records entries for the requests in Microsoft SQL Server, and then processes the data asynchronously on a first-come, first-served basis. Having a queue ensures that the Office Project Server 2007 EPM solution does not stop working when a spike in demand occurs.

Solution: Check the jobs in the queue by logging into Project Web access as an administrator.

PWA–>Server Settings–>Manage Queue

If there are lot of jobs “Waiting To Be Processed”, Canceling and Retrying may make no difference. Open the Services MMC and find “Microsoft Office Project Server Queue Service”. Restart the service and Refresh status of the jobs in PWA. The jobs will be processed now. If your database is on a different server from the application server, make sure that both the servers have the same time.

If you want to know more about Project Server 2007 Queuing system, refer to Technet

 

Popfly Game Creator

Microsoft has added a new feature to Popfly - an easy to use GUI Game Creator. You can create most of the simple arcade games. The game creator has some pre-built game templates and hundreds of images, animations, backgrounds, and sounds to use in the games you create, and, of course, a way for you to write code if you reach the limits of what the user interface can do for you. Since this is Popfly, you can still save, share, and embed your creations everywhere from your blog to your Facebook page to your Windows Vista Sidebar.

I have created a game with one of the templates: http://www.popfly.com/users/sujeeth/Baby%20Crossing

The Popfly Game Creator comes with a set of video tutorials on the Popfly Wiki that show you how to use it. Popfly is still in Alpha stage.