Posted by: EPM Partners on October 25, 2010
This is a very brief overview of how to get the Bulk Import Tool Solution Starter going in your environment. Sorry no screenshots! Basically this feature allows you to bulk update project information from an external list. It also allows you to create projects based on an external list. This is very useful if
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Posted by: Dan Stopher on September 24, 2010
When using My Tasks in Project Server a Team member can submit a proposed revision to the task start and finish dates to the PM for review by updating the start and finish dates and submitting for approval. If the PM rejects the update the Team Member is notified of this by the display of the
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Posted by: EPM Partners on September 11, 2010
Brian posted this link to a new document posted on the Microsoft Project Hompagecontaining a slide deck detailing the limitations of the new 2010 Online Editing feature, I thought that it was definitely worth a mention here as this is one feature that I have had a lot of experience with in 2010. Here’s a snapshot of the
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Posted by: Laith Adel on September 1, 2010
After few years of experience with implementing Project Server or (Microsoft EPM), I’ve seen many approaches to implement it, successfully or otherwise. In summary it all ends up being one the following approaches: Two Steps Approach: where you go through the standard approach of collecting requirements, design, then develop and test. Notes on
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Posted by: EPM Partners on August 4, 2010
I’ve just had my first opportunity to dive into the recently released by Microsoft Project 2010 Solution Starters (see Jan’s blog post), what first caught my eye was the Demand Management Dynamic Workflow solution which aims to allow you to: “Dynamically create a linear workflow based on stages”. My first impression is WOW! This is a very simple way
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Posted by: EPM Partners on May 14, 2010
Found this one out the hard way this week; it seems that currently the only supported version of SSRS for the SharePoint 2010 SRS Add-in is SQL 2008 R2. At least one forum poster from MSFT has confirmed this. Annoying as it can be surprisingly hard enough to convince customers to install Windows 2008 let alone upgrade their SQL servers!
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Posted by: EPM Partners on March 2, 2010
If your looking for a preview of Project Server 2010 then Microsoft have made available a fully configured demo image which is now available online: Access it directly here at the Microsoft Virtual Labs. See the following blog link if you want some more info or are game to try your hands at the full Hyper-V version,
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