Description of the Project 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: February 28, 2006 (899341)

INTRODUCTION

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.
When you try to connect to Project Server 2003 by using Project Professional 2003, the logon page is blank.
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.
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.
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.
After you install Project 2003 SP2, Project 2003 may unexpectedly stop (crash) when you try to open a project.
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.

MORE INFORMATION

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Office Project 2003 service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

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.

File name	File version	File size	Date	Time
Office2003-kb899341-glb.exe	11.0.8012.0	6,556,920	06-Feb-2006	21:15

Download information

Microsoft Windows Installer .msp file information

File name	File version	File size	Date	Time
Project.msp	Not applicable	7,076,864	06-Feb-2006	21:14

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.

File name	File version	File size	Date	Time
Pj11od11.dll	11.2.2006.1117	924,544	17-Jan-2006	23:52
Pj11tm11.dll	11.2.2006.1117	269,576	17-Jan-2006	22:48
Pjmsgmgr.dll	11.2.2006.1117	146,696	17-Jan-2006	22:48
Pjmsgsdr.dll	11.2.2006.1117	167,176	17-Jan-2006	22:48
Pjoledb.dll	11.2.2006.1117	4,234,504	17-Jan-2006	22:48
Prjres.dll	11.2.2006.1117	1,735,552	17-Jan-2006	23:52
Serconv.dll	11.2.2006.1117	641,920	17-Jan-2006	23:52
Winproj.exe	11.2.2006.1117	11,320,672	17-Jan-2006	23:52

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