Microsoft KB Archive/899341

= Description of the Project 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: February 28, 2006 =

Article ID: 899341

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003
 * Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003

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SUMMARY
This article describes the Microsoft Office Project 2003 issues that are fixed in the Project 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package that is dated February 28, 2006.

This article describes the following items about the hotfix package:


 * The issues that the hotfix package fixes.
 * The prerequisites for installing the hotfix package.
 * Whether you must restart your computer after you install the hotfix package.
 * Whether the hotfix package is replaced by any other hotfix package.
 * Whether you must make any registry changes.
 * The files that the hotfix package contains.



List of issues fixed
This hotfix package fixes the following issues.  

909564 All task-level enterprise outline codes are collapsed when you use Project Data Service to add a new outline code in Project 2003

 

909913 Project Web Access cannot synchronize a user when you add a new resource from Active Directory in Project Professional 2003



This hotfix package fixes the following issues that were not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:  When you use Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 to connect to Microsoft Project Server 2003 from a client computer, you receive an error message that is similar to the following error message:

The URL specified is not valid or is not a Project server. Internet Explorer is set to work off-line. The server could not process your request. An internal server error occurred. Contact your server administrator.

 When you use the Sync to Protected Actuals feature, the %Complete field for a task is changed from 100% to 0%. You use the Sync to Protected Actuals feature. A resource is assigned 0 hours of work to complete a task that has 0 hours of remaining work scheduled. When you use the feature, the resource has 1 hour of remaining work scheduled for the resource to complete the task. You define a customized enterprise view that will be used as a default view in Project Professional 2003. After you do this, the customized enterprise view is unavailable when the plan is saved locally and when you work in offline mode.</li> When you try to connect to Project Server 2003 by using Project Professional 2003, the logon page is blank.</li> You connect to Project Server 2003 by using Project Professional 2003. When you then click Open on the File menu, the Open dialog box does not sort the Outline Code values in alphabetical order as expected. Instead, the Outline Code values are listed in the order in which they were created.</li> When you change the lag time of a task in the Critical Path of a project, the Late Start and Late Finish times for all predecessor tasks are not calculated as expected.</li> You open an enterprise project in Project Professional 2003 when you are connected to a computer that is running Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). When you do this, the enterprise project takes longer to open than it did before you installed Project Server 2003 SP2.</li> After you install Project 2003 SP2, Project 2003 may unexpectedly stop (crash) when you try to open a project.</li> When you insert a project plan into a master project plan, the values do not appear in the Enterprise Project Outline Code column of the inserted project.</li></ul>

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Service pack information
This problem was first corrected in Project 2003 Service Pack 3. To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Project 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

873459 How to obtain the latest service pack for Project 2003

Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem, submit a request to Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain the hotfix. To submit an online request to obtain the hotfix, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6294451

Note If additional issues occur or any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. To create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Prerequisites
This hotfix is a Microsoft Office Project 2003 Service Pack 2 hotfix. To install the hotfix, you must have Microsoft Office Project 2003 Service Pack 2 installed. For more information about Project 2003 Service Pack 2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

887620 Description of Project 2003 Service Pack 2

Restart information
You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information
This hotfix is not replaced by any later hotfix.

Registry information
You must create a registry key or modify a registry key to use one of the hotfixes that this package contains. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

909564 All task-level enterprise outline codes are collapsed when you use Project Data Service to add a new outline code in Project 2003

File information
This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build. This hotfix contains only the files that you must have to correct the issues that this article lists.

Download information

The global version of this hotfix package uses a Microsoft Windows Installer package to install the hotfix. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC) in the following table. When you view the file information, the date is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

Download information

Microsoft Windows Installer .msp file information

After the hotfix package is installed, the global version of this hotfix package has the file attributes, or later file attributes, that are listed in the following table.


 * For more information about how to install this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the hotfix package.

For more information about the terminology that Microsoft uses for software that is corrected after it is released, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

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