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A recent question on note-taking tools in the Project Managers LinkedIn group sparked quite a response. The discussion got me thinking. Do we ever treat note-taking as a corporate capability and are there business advantages to doing so? Collaboration is one of those overhead tasks that is not tracked, though everyone is expected to do […]
This technique illustrates how to use formulas to extract dates from tagged milestone tasks within your project plans and show the dates in the Project Center. This technique has been tested with Project Online and Project Server 2013 On Premises. However, I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t work in Project Server 2010. The […]
Problem If you’ve ever tried to use the built-in security templates in Project Web App, you may have accidentally messed up your security model without realizing it. This problem applies to Project Server 2003-2013 versions. Security templates are designed as a way to quickly apply or reapply permissions for predefined roles, when creating new groups […]
Good news! All session recordings are now available online! View them at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Project/2014/ Technorati Tags: Project Conference 2014,Project Server 2013,Project Online,Project Lite
Have you ever looked at the Project Web App home page and felt it was simply too plain for Jane? I understand the need for design simplicity but sometimes the PWA home page simply feels like underutilized real estate. The Need Your manager wants you to add system announcements, support contacts and a list of […]
Please use the following links to download the Service Pack 1 bits. Also, ensure you patch SharePoint and Project Server together. Project 32-bit http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42013 Project 64-bit http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42020 SharePoint http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42008 Project Server http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42011
Microsoft has released the 2013 version of the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) guide for Project Server 2013 and Project Online. You can download it here. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41549
Scenario You have a report where the need is to show multiple values for a given custom field. For example, you have a multi-value Project custom field for Impacted Business Organizations. You want to see your values as a comma delimited list so that this can be used in an Excel pivot table or SSRS […]
These high level entity relationship diagrams were first published in the deck for my Project Conference Hands On Lab deck. I’ve had a number of requests for this information so here it is. These diagrams are based on the 2010 RDB but the 2013 RDB should not be materially different. For 2007 users, many of […]
At some point, you will be asked for information by Fiscal Year. The Fiscal calendar was set up in Project Server so it should be accessible for reporting, right? A fair number of companies have fiscal calendars which don’t exactly line up with the standard calendar which can cause some challenges. You could hard code […]