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Fixing the IE 8 warning – ‘Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?’

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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Claiming your PMI PDU’s

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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Ask the Experts: What to do with the “Sample” fields in Microsoft Project Server 2010

  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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8 Steps to Scheduling Success–Step 3: Entering the Estimates

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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Reporting Certification Series: Session # 3 May 22nd

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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Reference Links: Project Server 2010 Reporting – Business Intelligence

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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Project Server 2010 Reporting – Filters, Excel Service, Performance Point, and more

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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Create a new Excel Report from Existing (modifying ODC), excerpt from Business Intelligence Course

The following is an excerpt from our Business Intelligence with Microsoft Project Server 2010 course.  Enjoy!   Step Action ...

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Create a new ODC file with a unique data source

Step Action Details 1 Launch Excel 2010 ...

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Creating a Master Project Template with Project Server 2010

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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Cross Project Dependencies, Linking tasks, and subprojects in Project Server 2010

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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Pike Industries on Project Server 2010

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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8 Steps to Scheduling Success–Step 2: Enter the Tasks and Deliverables

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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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: The Server Address is not valid when connecting via Outlook

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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Newly added enterprise custom field values not visible in Project Professional 2010

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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User unable to view areas of Project Server 2007

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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8 Steps to Scheduling Success: Step 1 Define the Project

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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Queue troubleshooting for Project Server 2007

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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Reporting Certification Series (Session #1 of 3) Successfully Completed

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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Ask the Experts: Project Server 2007 Creating Site Workspace error “Web is already linked to another project”

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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8 Steps for Scheduling Success

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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Project Conference 2012 Recap

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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Microsoft Community Leadership Award (Expertise in Reporting)

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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Microsoft Project Reporting - Certificate Program Overview

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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