PWA/Outlook add-in broken

[Pete Hay]

I hope this is the correct place to post this question:
I am testing PWA/MOSS using both my laptop and desktop computers. The
PWA/Outlook add-in seems to have stopped working on my laptop. I have tried
both the repair and uninstall/reinstall options with no change in behavior.
The connector passes conection test and reports no errors when checking for
new tasks. It just doesn't bring back any.
I can log into outlook/exchange on my desktop and all works fine there. Both
machines run XP with all of the latest patches.
Any ideas?

 

[Gary Chefetz]

Pete:

Can you live without this feature? It has proven itself to be difficult to
manage and rather unreliable in the field. A better approach might be to
display the My Tasks page as the home page of a folder in Outlook. This
particular feature is replaced with direct integration into Exchange Server
in the 2010 edition and will not rely upon client-side integration. Much
better and very stable.

 

[David Ducolon]

Hi Pete:

As Gary mentions, the Outlook add-in along with all comm add-in's have been
eliminated from the upcoming release. The Outlook integration is VB6 code
and that is unique among Project and Project Server features. The team is
not staffed to address any but the most egregious of issues for this add-in,
meaning that you cannot get the job done another way.

That said, the 2010 release has Exchange integration and if you can get your
Exchange team to setup their side of the integration, Project Server is now a
server to server communicating application. There are some caveats though,
no time-phased or hours per day data is available, Administrative time is no
longer able to be reported from Outlook and the Project unique Outlook forms
are no longer available from Microsoft.

However, in my opinion this is a much better solution than the Outlook
add-in and if enough people talk about it in the Project Blog questions and
in these forms that will increase the chance that this feature will be built
out over multiple releases.

Dave
www.projectserverexplained.com "where questions get directly answered"