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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:16 AM

Agile Planning Tools In Visual Studio Team System 2010

Check out the following article Agile Planning Tools In Visual Studio Team System 2010 from Ajoy Krishnamoorthy in the latest version of MSDN Magazine ; another interesting article in the December edition: Streamline Team Projects With Process Templates
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Friday, December 19, 2008 8:40 PM

Getting Started with Project Server 2007 - TechNet Magazine January 2009

Check out the following article from TechNet Magazine (January 2009 edition) from Alan Maddison from Strategic Business Systems: Getting Started with Project Server 2007 This article is targeted at IT Professionals: At a Glance: Four general areas of
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Friday, December 19, 2008 8:19 AM

Warm up your Project Server and SharePoint VPC in seconds!

Yet another cool tool from CodePlex: SPWakeUp - Wake up your Sharepoint and WSS Sites written by Andrew Kennel . A great tool to warm up and optimize your demo performance as well as your favorite SharePoint farm. A simple application that touches each
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Friday, December 19, 2008 7:32 AM

Announcing the CodePlex release of ShUIE (SharePoint User Interface Extender)

David Kitchen , Louise Brigthon and Calvin So from PCubed have recently released the following CodePlex project: ShUIE (SharePoint User Interface Extender) : ShUIE is an addition to Microsoft SharePoint that allows a developer to inject JavaScript and
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Friday, December 19, 2008 3:23 AM

How to report Project Risks at a Program Level?

A request I heard a few times from customers is how can you report Risks (or Issues) at a Program Level and since I’m snowed in it’s a perfect opportunity for a new EPM blog post! Since Risks and Issues are stored as lists within SharePoint another way
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Attachment(s): Program_Risks_SSRS08.rdl
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:43 PM

Announcing the release of the December Cumulative Update for Project and Project Server 2007

The December Cumulative Update was released on December 16th. The next Cumulative Update (CU) is scheduled for the end of February, then Service Pack 2 will be available between February and April and it will include the February CU. From this point forward
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:29 AM

How to upgrade your existing Microsoft Project VPC running on SQL 2005 to SQL Server 2008

I’m sure you have seen these cool SQL Reporting Services 2008 reports: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 – Sample Project Server Reports and would like to do the same in your favorite EPM demo VPC or you just have plenty of free time during
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:24 AM

Announcing the release of SQL Server 2005 SP3

Microsoft released today SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3). SQL 2005 version should now be 9.00.4035 . Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) contains hotfixes that were included in cumulative update packages for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack
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Friday, December 12, 2008 12:52 AM

SharePoint Best Practices for capacity management

The following article Best Practices for capacity management was recently published on the SharePoint Server TechCenter . Some highlights that are also applicable to the Project Server world are: Capacity planning should be revisited repeatedly in all
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:59 AM

Microsoft Search – Portal & Book

Search, search, search! Please find some useful pointers on the subject, including a great book I read recently that just got published last month that explains very well our search strategy and offerings; in case you missed it Microsoft positioned in
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:15 AM

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 – Sample Project Server Reports

Following the release of this sample SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 report pack: New SQL Reporting Services Sample Reports for Project Server , I have just updated two sample reports ( Risks and Portfolio Status , attached below) to illustrate the
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Attachment(s): ProjetcServer07_SSRS08.zip
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:38 AM

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2 is now available!

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/FX102380591033.aspx PerformancePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes enhancements such as improved query performance, support for SQL Server 2008, increased compatibility with Windows Server
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Monday, December 08, 2008 8:11 PM

Microsoft’s vision of the next generation Data Center

Great post from Michael Manos about our next generation of data center: Generation 4 Modular Data Centers : Our Vision for Generation 4 Modular Data Centers - One way of Getting it just right . . . “A highly modular, scalable, efficient, just-in-time
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:31 PM

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 webcast: Network Communication & Performance Management

We have two webcasts this week you should attend: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: Network Communication (Level 300) Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time TechNet Webcast: Performance Management Using Project
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Monday, December 01, 2008 7:25 PM

Using scripts to automate SharePoint Server 2007 installation

The following whitepaper was published: Planning and deploying Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to 1 or 2 computers is not a large task, but what if you need to install it on 20 or even 50 computers? This guide will help you build scripts that
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