I recently began using Project Web Access in order to attempt some high level project planning and resource management. For those who do not know what this is, it is a web access module that extends Microsoft Sharepoint and allows for access to Microsoft Project files via the web. You create the project files with the desktop client and publish them to the sharepoint site for Project.

As I saved the project, the progress bar showed saved, but 0% complete. It never moved off 0% complete, and when I closed MS Project and re-opened it, I was not allowed to open the saved project file. It would not list on the server, and it was not published.

After some looking around, I found it in Server Settings -> Manage Queue , and I saw that the jobs were hung. I didn’t want to lose my work, and so I didn’t know what to do. I was able to restore it by restarting the Jobs Queue with the following commands from the command-line on the server:

net stop ProjectQueueService

net start ProjectQueueService

This restarted the queue and my jobs started up again and completed. I didn’t lose any work.. Yeah!!