For Project 2013, we've added some new online templates to help you get started, as well as we've updated the template process. Please read on to learn more about the popular new templates.

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Project Web App empowers a mobile workforce by bringing the power of Microsoft Project Professional to the browser with web-based project scheduling via the Schedule WebPart . Web-based scheduling provides occasional and certified project managers with the flexibility to quickly build simple and complex schedules online, and conveniently edit the plan via the browser from anywhere in the world. Today we’ll discuss some of the improvements to the Schedule WebPart and the new server scheduling...

We’re officially in the holiday season, and you’ve been nominated to cook the big dinner. Whether you’re a little nervous as a first-time host or you’re a veteran who wants to be more organized, Project can help you with event planning to make all of your holidays less stressful and a lot more fun.

I recently used Project to successfully host Thanksgiving dinner, but you can apply the same techniques to any large meal. For everybody who isn’t familiar with Thanksgiving, here's more information, but all you really need to know is that for a lot of Americans, the day revolves around a huge meal featuring a turkey.

Since this was my first time hosting the holiday meal at my house, my primary goal was to make sure the turkey didn’t dry out before it finished cooking. I also wanted to make sure all my side dishes were ready at the same time as the turkey.

 

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Following last month’s announcement: The New Microsoft Project reaches RTM! , you can now download the following trials for the following languages: Arabic, English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish: Microsoft Project Professional 2013 Microsoft Project Server 2013 Additional downloads: Microsoft Visio Professional 2013 Microsoft SharePoint 2013

We’re excited to show you the new Project at the SharePoint Conference (SPC) this week in Vegas. If you’re not familiar with the SharePoint Conference, you can find more information here . If you’re attending, then plan your schedule with our 13 Project sessions in mind—the Project team is delivering overviews on the new Project which you won’t want to miss! For the first time, we’re delivering Project in the cloud with end-to-end project and portfolio management (PPM) delivered through Office 365...

Let’s imagine you are a program or project manager who is using Project Web App (PWA) to manage projects and proposals, and you would like to collect proposals & requests as well as project ideas from the different people in your team or even across the organization. One way to do that would be to collect these proposals in email, face to face conversations, etc., and then you’d have to manually enter them in PWA one by one. The problem with this way is that it’s time consuming...

Hi!  I’m Mike McLean, Program Manager with the Microsoft Project team.  Today we’ll discuss some of the changes to server reporting in the next version of Project Web App (PWA), including an introduction to the new OData service. 

Historically, users access data in PWA by going directly against the database or via cubes available on-premises.  With the launch of Project Online this release, we also have users storing data in Office 365.  To provide access to this data, we’ve built an OData service that can be used to retrieve data stored in your instance of PWA.  This OData service is available for both online and on-premises deployments.  Excel 2013 now has native support for OData feeds and can authenticate to Office 365 to retrieve data from Project Online.  More information on OData can be found at http://www.odata.org/.

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In a previous post we detailed some of the improvements that we made to timesheets in Project Web App (PWA) 2013 targeted at end users. While end user improvements are great because they impact the largest audience for PWA we didn’t want you to think that we’d forgotten the administrators and developers either! To be fair, some of these improvements are just as much for the end users as they are for the administrators in making life easier for everyone, but who doesn’t like a win...

Hi, my name is Matt, I’m a PM on the Project team and I’m here to talk with you a bit about the improvements that we’ve made to the timesheet experience in the new version of Project Web App. Over the course of the next couple posts I’ll talk about improvements targeted at both end-users, backend administrators, and developers that streamline the timesheet process and provide increased functionality to make you more effective.

In my first post I’d like to chat about the improvements that we’ve made for end-users, the people who actually have to fill out their time card every week or so. Here on the product team we realize that one of the most tedious, and yet common, tasks that many users have to complete using Project Web App (PWA) is filling out their time card. To help ease the pain and make it faster for you to get back to your actual work we’ve made several improvements to the experience in PWA 2013.

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Project Professional and Project Web App now allow you to instant message, voice or video call, or send email with one click using Lync in the most common views. This makes getting quick answers from your team members, fellow PMs, or other stakeholders easier than ever.

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