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Saturday, May 31, 2008 12:05 AM

VBA to VSTO

A recurring topic these days: to customize Project Professional 2007 should I be using VBA or VSTO ? Jack Dahlgren has just published a great post on the subject: Making the move from VBA to VSTO in Microsoft Project highlighting two benefits of switching
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Friday, May 30, 2008 6:48 PM

Project at TechED Developers next week

Boris Scholl, Brian Smith and I will be attending TechEd Developers 2008 in Orlando next week. We’ll be delivering the following sessions: Customizing the Microsoft Office Project Web Access User Interface Line-of-Business Integration Using Microsoft
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Friday, May 30, 2008 8:47 AM

Project 2007 with Mac OS

A few of you are wondering if Project Standard/Professional (desktop) and Project Web Access (Project Server web based client) run on a non Windows operating system and in particular on a Macintosh running on MAC OS. First as a reminder the desktop requirements
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:40 AM

Project Server IT Professionals Bookmarks

For the upcoming TechEd for IT Professionals in Orlando we have prepared a list of about 70 bookmarks Project Server IT Professionals should be aware of. This list contains bookmarks to valuable resources such as deployment guides, deployment templates,
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Attachment(s): Project Server 2007 - IT Professionals Bookmarks - V1.doc
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:21 AM

How to control Lookup Table updates?

Brian Smith and I just finished putting together code samples for the Project Server 2007 session we’ll deliver at the TechEd Developer conference next week entitled: Line-of-Business Integration Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:51 PM

How to track progress using Hours per Day in My Tasks?

Since Service Pack 1 of Project Server 2007 users have the ability to track progress by “hours per day” as shown below: Standard My Tasks web part settings My Task web part with Hours per Day activated To do that you will have to activate the Hours per
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Friday, May 23, 2008 10:59 PM

TechNet Update and Best Practices for Managing the Project Server Queue Service

Office Server product pages on TechNet have been updated with following (thanks Efren for the description): What’s new on the Office system page: Full product listing front and center. Highlights section is relatively static and will promote events (such
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:44 AM

Project Server 2007 Sample Databases

I published today on MSDN Code Gallery the sample Project Server 2007 databases (the four PS databases + SharePoint’s content db) used in our latest core demonstration VPC: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PS2007SampleDB To search all EPM projects on Code
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:32 AM

SharePoint Developers Webcast

Due to the fact that Project Server 2007 is built on top of Windows SharePoint Services V3, a lot of customizations and development around the solution leverage SharePoint. This series of webcast is thus a great opportunity to learn about performing SharePoint
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Friday, May 16, 2008 5:33 AM

Virtual Server and Virtual PC SP1 Update Available

With the newly released operating systems updates it now support Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista SP1 Windows XP SP3 Virtual Server 2005 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a79bcf9b-59f7-480b-a4b8-fb56f42e3348&displaylang=en
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Friday, May 16, 2008 5:17 AM

Screen Capture Software

In case you are wondering what tool I use to make screen captures everyday for documentation/blog posts/emails, here it is (thanks to Jean): ScreenHunter 5.0 Free As it’s name implies, it’s free! In one click (F6) I capture and save images of any area
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:17 AM

How to Rename Projects After a Project Server 2007 Migration

You have probably noticed after a Project Server 2003 to a Project Server 2007 migration that all the project name have the string “_Published” appended at the end (check Migration guide for Office Project Server 2007 ). Mike Shughrue has written a tool
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:57 AM

To Infinity and Beyond, Microsoft WorldWide Telescope

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration
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Friday, May 09, 2008 8:26 PM

Leveraging the published Project Server Reporting Database Schema

A key success to a Project Server deployment are meaningful reports and dashboards for everyone in the organization. Even though PS comes with standard reports; in order to meet your exact business needs you might have to create custom reports using products
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:03 PM

How to deploy the Timesheet Compliance Report

I recently posted a series of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports that are used in our newly updated EPM demo VPC: New SQL Reporting Services Sample Reports for Project Server . Since a few people asked for a step by step guide to use these reports
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:23 AM

Section 508 VPATs for Microsoft Project

http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/products/section508.mspx The following VPAT documents describe how the accessibility features of Microsoft products help federal agencies address the requirements of Section 508 Standards. A Voluntary Product
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Friday, May 02, 2008 11:36 PM

Project Content Recently Published

Please find below a recap of all content released by the Project User Assistance group during the past two months, happy reading/watching and keep deploying the EPM stack! Office Online content: The PWA Role Guides These role guides present broad overviews
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Friday, May 02, 2008 3:53 AM

I love my Hyper-V!

Recently reformatted my desktop to Windows 2008 Enterprise 64-bit (use to run Vista 32-bit) and activated Hyper-V RC. I have tested two of my favorite EPM VPC (Core EPM 2007 demo VPC and my Development VPC) and so far it just rocks. Such an improvement
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:36 PM

PerformancePoint Server Virtual Labs

As mentioned in the past PerformancePoint Server 2007 is RTM! , PerformancePoint Server (PPS) could be of great value to EPM deployments. To ramp up on PPS and actually practice in a live environment check the following TechNet hands on labs (free of
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:12 AM

Install Project Server 2007 in Windows Server 2008

This article discusses the requirements and steps for installing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 in a stand-alone Windows Server 2008 environment. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc531331.aspx If you are looking for reasons why you should
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