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• The New and Improved Schedule Webpart

  18 Dec 2012

  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...
• Server Reporting in PWA

  31 Oct 2012

  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...
• Timesheet Improvements for Administrators and Developers in Project Web App

  29 Oct 2012

  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...
• Project and Lync together: Reducing communication barriers

  19 Oct 2012

  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. Here are a couple common scenarios...
• The New Project – Now with More Time

  4 Oct 2012

  To quote John Randolph, “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions”. Good news, in the new version of Project we gave you more time, 100 more years to be exact. For those of you doing really long-term planning, you may have noticed that the max date...
• Introducing Task Path

  26 Sep 2012

  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...
• Demand Management, Now with SharePoint Designer

  18 Sep 2012

  In project management, a project life cycle can be a long-running process that spans several phases. For instance, new R&D projects need to go through several phases, including creating the proposals, selecting a subset of them, planning, assigning resources, and finally managing and executing the...
• Timelines Everywhere: See and share your work with ease in SharePoint and PWA

  7 Sep 2012

  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...
• SharePoint Tasks List plus Project – Better Together

  30 Aug 2012

  We recently talked about how you can use tasks lists in SharePoint to manage your tasks . SharePoint tasks lists provide a great way to collaborate and stay up to date on the status of your projects. By using Microsoft Project Professional, you can take your project management to the next level by using...
• Impress the family: Make Thanksgiving Day a success with Project 2010

  18 Nov 2011

  Brian Kennemer over at Deltabahn , a Microsoft Partner specializing in Project Server deployment consulting, recently updated his Thanksgiving dinner project plan and we wanted to share it with you all. You can download the .mpp file here . This is just a guide, but a great example of how flexible the...
• Introducing Inactive Tasks in Project 2010

  10 Jun 2010

  Inactive Tasks is a powerful new feature in Microsoft Project 2010 Professional that allows you to cut tasks in your projects, while maintaining a record of these cut items. Inactive Tasks allows you to quickly and effectively: · Manage Scope: As project begins to go over budget or over schedule...
• Assignment Units in Project 2010

  29 Apr 2010

  If you are an experienced project manager then it’s likely that you are familiar with the Assignment Units field. For those who aren’t, Assignment Units determines the rate at which a resource is assigned to work on a task. This field is set to 100% or the Resource’s Max Units (whichever...
• Project 2010: Introducing Delegates

  18 Mar 2010

  In Microsoft® Office® Project Server 2007, the timesheet surrogate feature exists to allow one timesheet user to give the management of their timesheet to another user — send updates and so forth. This is great for timesheets, but there are many other parts of Project Web App where you...
• Project 2010: Project Permissions

  4 Mar 2010

  Other Users Need Access to My Projects Consider this scenario. As a project manager you create your project and now you’re ready to let others collaborate with you and so you ask yourself “how do I let others get access to my project?” By default, users who are added as resources to...
• Project 2010: Working with Text

  24 Feb 2010

  Project 2010 makes it easier to work with text in your project plan. In this post I’ll cover how: The “Add New Column” interface allows you to easily add and insert columns Autocomplete saves you time and keystrokes when entering text data Text wrapping lets you see all the relevant...
• Project 2010: Introducing Millions of Colors

  10 Feb 2010

  While Shakespeare said “Truth needs no colour”, we decided this wasn’t true for Project 2010. With Project 2010, no longer are you limited to 16 colors. We now support 32-bit color which simply put means you have millions of colors to choose between. How many million you ask –...
• Task Statusing and the new Grid

  28 Jan 2010

  A few weeks back Patrick Conlan posted an overview of some of the Time Tracking investment areas for Project Server 2010 . Today we are going to drill in on one such investment area, namely the Statusing feature area. This screenshots used for this example are taken from a post-Beta Build of Project...
• Project 2010: Copy and Paste

  25 Jan 2010

  In this post I’ll cover improvements to an everyday command in Project: copying and pasting data. Though paste likes to keep a low profile, in fact it’s the fourth most commonly used feature in Project. And while Project and Project Server offer many advanced reporting features, a very common...
• Project 2010: Introducing the Backstage view

  20 Jan 2010

  Hi, it’s Jon K again . In this post, I’ll introduce Project 2010’s new Backstage view. The Backstage view is the new experience seen when you click on the File tab in Project 2010. While the other ribbon tabs focus on things you do in your project (add tasks, edit resources, change...
• Project 2010: Introducing Exchange Integration

  11 Dec 2009

  Exchange Integration provides the ability for team members on a project to view, update, delete and report status on their published tasks in Outlook, Outlook Web Access (OWA) or any other application that is capable of syncing tasks from Exchange Server. This functionality replaces the Project 2007...