Views Notification Service

[Mike Brickner]

The service keeps "running wild" and taking up processing
resources. I'm seeing the message below in the event log.

Component: Views Notification Service
File: C:\Proj10\pcportal\source\viewsnotify\ViewNotify.cpp
Line: 181
Error Number: 0x80004005
Description: Failed to load document into XML DOM
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Component: Views Notification Service
File: C:\Proj10\WebClient\source\utility\xmlhelpers.cpp
Line: 62
Error Number: 0x80004005
Description: Failed to load document into XML DOM. The
document follows: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Project
Server\Bin\ViewDrop\5404C175-8B71-4EE0-86B8-
5DFAD1A9BFE8.xml
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Component: msxml3.dll
Description: The system cannot locate the resource
specified.

 

[Matt S.]

It is normal for Project Server View Notification service to consum a great
deal of CPU resources. This service packages the data and brings them into
our ProjectServer database tables.

Typically when you see the error you posted, you generally have a backup of
XML files in your ViewDrop folder. When saving, opening, closing plans or
building OLAP cubes, Project Server creates an XML file and places it in the
ViewDrop folder for the VWNOTIFY service to begin processing.

You can find the ViewDrop folder on yoru Project Server machine, just do a
search, and it should come up.

You can remove XML's from this folder. Typically when there is a backup of
XML's we like to stop the VWNOTIFY service and remove these files to a
temp. folder. Then restart the service and put groups of five XML's into the
folder and let them get processed.