As your projects grow in complexity and in length, it is easy to lose sight of how all of your tasks fit together. Project 2010 and earlier allow you to highlight and filter down to the critical path of your project, which is a great way to see which tasks affect your project’s finish date. Many times, the project finish date doesn’t tell you the full story though. For example, let’s say that you are managing a construction project, and your favorite contractor suddenly announces he is retiring at the end of the month. You check your project plan, and you see that you were expecting him two weeks after this deadline. However, the list of predecessors that are driving his tasks is daunting.

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Imagine that it's 2:00pm on Friday afternoon and you're leaving a planning meeting for the big springtime marketing blitz upon which your company, Coho Winery, is resting its hopes of international expansion. Just moments ago, the team was haphazardly scrolling through a long task list spreadsheet when your boss slammed her fist on the table and declared that you would have a first-class project management solution in place by Monday morning. Project Pro for Office 365 can help--read on to find out how.

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That’s right, today the Project engineering team signed off on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build of the new Project. We wanted to share this very exciting news with you before we went off to celebrate. We are very excited about the new version of Project. For the first time, Project offers flexible online and on-premises solutions for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work, enabling organizations to effectively execute and achieve strategic priorities. Volume Licensing customers...

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...

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...

In the next version of SharePoint and Project Web App, we’ve brought Microsoft Project’s Timeline view to the web. Now, it’s easier than ever to communicate a high level view of your project to team members, stay focused on your upcoming personal tasks, and provide insight into all of your organizations work.

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We are happy to share the new Microsoft Project sessions at SharePoint Conference 2012 November 12-15, 2012 in Las Vegas. We have put together an amazing lineup of sessions and product experts such as MVPs and Program Managers from Microsoft to tell & demonstrate the new Project story. In addition to great sessions we will also have hands-on-labs, a product booth, and a FREE readiness pre-event: The Best of the New Project Ignite . Don’t miss #SPC12, REGISTER today , and see you next month in...

Whether you are a novice user of Microsoft Project 2013 or you want to learn about IT Professional or developer topics, please consider our new quick start training for Project 2013--it's free and available on demand.

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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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For smaller projects, we see a lot of users turning to SharePoint task lists. With the new SharePoint, we've made that experience even better to manage tasks as a team. But for most organizations, you'll want greater visibility into all your work. This is where Project Online and PWA (Project Web Access) really shines. Task lists can easily connect and sync with all the enterprise project data stored in PWA.

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