SharePoint User Profile Database Continuously Growing

SharePoint User Profile Database Continuously Growing A customer reported a very large SharePoint User Profile Database (500+ GB) that was continuously growing.  The ActivityEventsConsolidated and ActivityEventsPublished tables in the User Profile Database were the largest.  These tables store user profile information for the newsfeed service. If you [...]

Editing the Timeline in Project Center

Editing the Timeline in Project Center One great new feature of Project Server 2016 and Project Online is the Timeline. The Timeline was added to Project Center and to task views in Project Web App. The timeline is blank by default. To add a project to the [...]

Restarting a Workflow

Restarting a Workflow At PPM Works we often have customers contact us for support contracts to address problems with existing workflows. We have seen a few organizations make a common mistake when creating a workflow. They leave out the condition to restart the workflow from a specific [...]

Access to the Resource is Forbidden

Access to the Resource is Forbidden When receiving the message, "Access to the resource is forbidden" with ODATA connections to Project Server / Project Online from PowerBI or Excel, check for an active delegation session. Stop your delegation session in the Project Web App (PWA) to resolve the Access [...]

Minimal Download Strategy

Minimal Download Strategy The issue was a site feature named Minimal Download Strategy. It was altering the site URL causing the JQuery to form it incorrectly. I was struggling to get a link to a report to work on a project site template for one of our [...]