OK, so not a typical item for our blog. It was, nonetheless, causing me headaches while working on an ssl enabled SharePoint site. The fix was easy enough, and is below. Resolution Navigate Tools &g ...
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Need PMI PDUs (Professional Development Units)? MSProjectNow! is a PMI Registered Education Provider which allows you to claim PDUs for our courses and webcasts. This link on MPUG’s blog covers how to claim PDU's: ...
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Question Hi, I'm in the process of configuring my new EPM2010 dev environment, to gain some familiarity prior to implementing a live build. I see how the Department hierarchy can be used to make enteprise custom fiel ...
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In 8 Steps to Scheduling Success, we started with Step 1: Defining the Project and then moved on to Step 2: Entering the Tasks and Deliverables. If you haven’t had the chance to read those posts, follow the links and check th ...
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Make sure to join MPUG and MSProjectNow! for the third of the Reporting Certification Series. We will be looking at Performance Point and SSRS to create dashboards and other helpful advanced reporting areas. See sessio ...
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Good Afternoon Folks, Many of you asked – so here is the list of reference from today’s webcast. Enjoy. -Jacques •Managing views in PWA: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/projectserver/HA100830121033.asp ...
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Great Reporting Certification Series session today – if you missed it check out the recording at mpug.com. Here is a list of the Questions and Answers from the session: Resource Link on Reporting Templates: ...
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The following is an excerpt from our Business Intelligence with Microsoft Project Server 2010 course. Enjoy!
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Hello Folks, now this is an interesting topic and question: Can you create a Master Project Template in Project Server 2010? that follows last week’s blog posting Cross Project Dependencies, Linking tasks, and sub ...
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Folks, we recently were asked some questions around Project Server 2010 and subprojects – while there are many thoughts on the use of subprojects, let me address the questions and provide my recommendations as well. Not ...
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Jacques and I (Dan) met with our friends Matt and Greg from Pike Industries today to do some analysis on a report of theirs and provide a few tricks with MS Project. These guys are great, and are quickly growing their u ...
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Continuing with our 8 Steps to Success, this week we’ll focus on Step 2: Entering the Tasks and Deliverables. Step 1 was to Define the Project which basically means setting the important options and making sure you have your ...
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I recently setup a deployment with Microsoft Dynamics CRM for intranet access via SSL. When accessing external you would type “https://crm.serverName.com”. Although the external access worked fine, when I tr ...
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Recently, a client was experiencing an issue with custom field values in Project Server 2010. She changed the values in the lookup table for a Project custom field but was unable to see the new values in Project Professional. ...
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In this case the use was unable to see the home page of pwa to log in. We gave her the direct URL to Project Center, and was able to see that, however, she was unable to navigate to other areas of the tool. ...
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As promised last week, here is Step 1 of 8 steps to scheduling success with MS Project 2010. It is probably the simplest step but one that should not be overlooked. There are some settings and options that need to be set befo ...
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This is a repost from EPM Central. I found the batch job and not starting topics useful and wanted them local. Thanks to Jonathan stofer Overview: A queue is a waiting line that becomes a necessity whe ...
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Wow another great turnout on today’s Reporting Certification Series. Thank all 320+ attendees for all your great questions and your participation. There are two (2) more sessions in this series, make sure to regis ...
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I am trying to create a new workspace template for 2007 version of MS Project and Server. I used MSDN instructions "Extending the Project Workspace Template". When I try to create a new project ...
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Do you find yourself spending too much time working in Microsoft Project? Want to learn how to minimize the amount of time required but maximize the benefits? I thought you might. Following the 8 basic steps outlined below ca ...
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The 2012 Microsoft Project Conference was a great event packed with over 200 hours of content. It was wonderful to see the record setting attendance. From the theme, to the events, to the food, to the content – th ...
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We were honored to receive the MCLA Training Award (Microsoft Community Leadership Award) at the Project Conference 2012 (in March) presented by Microsoft and MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group). Awards were presented ...
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We are excited to run the Microsoft Project Reporting – Certificate Program for MPUG (the Microsoft Project Users Group). This web series of three (3) powerful sessions will provide you with the knowledge you need to kn ...
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