SharePoint Conference 2011 – Italy: A short summary of my EPM session of yesterday

In the first day of the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Milan, I was talking with my good friend Andrea Molinari about Enterprise Project Management with Project Server 2010. It was one of the last sessions of the first conference day. Because of that, we were thinking that not so many people would join our session. Fortunately, our assumptions were wrong .

This was the only session talking about Project Server 2010 at this conference. Therefore, we tried to cover two important topics because we didn’t know exactly the target groups that are going to listen to our session. The first one was a road map that showed how Project Server 2010 and Project Client should be used in a lifecycle of a project. The second topic was focusing more on the customizations that are possible with this great tool. This split of topics gave us the possibility to adapt the presentation dynamically depending on the target groups that are listening to our session. Yesterday we had less software developers in the audience. Because of that, we focused more on the first topic and showed less demos about Project Server 2010 customizations.

Nevertheless, in the next weeks I’m going to write some articles about Project Server 2010 customizations with PSI and workflow.

 

Stay tuned,

Patrick

The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view in SharePoint 2010 and Office 64-bit

I started using Office 2010 64-bit in the last months. During this time I encountered more than once an exception when changing to the Datasheet view in a SharePoint 2010 list:

The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons:

• A datasheet component compatible with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not installed.
• Your Web browser does not support ActiveX controls.
• A component is not properly configured for 32-bit or 64-bit support.

I was able to find the resolution after searching on the web on this forum post. However, since this happened to me about three times in the last four weeks and I always forget to set this forum post to my bookmarks , I decided to write this blog post. I hope that it might be also useful for you to find more faster the solution to this problem.

This exception occurs because the ActiveX control for the Datasheet view is incompatible with Office 64-bit versions. You can solve the issue by installing the “2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components” downloadable under this link.

After I installed the above component on my affected machine, I was able to use the Datasheet view functionality immediately.

Note: I tested this on a Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 machine.

 

Hope this helps,

Patrick