Posts from:Enterprise Project Management, Microsoft Project, OPM3
OPM3 and Project Server – Microsoft Project Conference 2014
By: Collin Quiring Tim Gryder and I are honored to be presenting OPM3 concepts in relationship to Microsoft Project Server 2013 at the Microsoft Project Conference in California in 2014! Here is the abstract for our session. The Organizational Project... (more...)
Project Professional 2013 and Project Server 2013 Versions and Updates
By: Collin Quiring There is already a blog post that we periodically update with the information for Project Professional 2010 and Project Server 2010 – that can be found here. But, we decided to start a new entry for the 2013 information. This... (more...)
Resource Availability Legend Colors Disappear
By Collin Quiring Microsoft support tells me that they are not taking bug reports on Project Server 2010 and 2013 and/or Project Web App (PWA) 2010 and 2013. They also wanted me to use a client support ticket to try and resolve this but... (more...)
Linking Projects / Tasks in Project Professional
BY: Collin Quiring Quick note – This is a post that is similar in nature to the White Paper about linking Projects found here. This is about the occasional need to link two (or more) schedules using Project 2010 stand-alone. When using Project... (more...)
NULL Task UID – might be a bug, might not be
BY: Collin Quiring The Background: We are using Project Server 2010 with Timesheets and have Project Managers and Timesheet Managers. Resources are assigned to tasks and the Resources report time weekly in the Timesheet page of Project Web APP (PWA). ... (more...)
Approval Center History Sorting Bug – Project Server 2010
BY: Collin Quiring We have run into this a number of times in the last year and so we are just documenting it here. In Project Server 2010 in the Approval Center you can look at the History of the approvals that you have accepted or rejected. And,... (more...)
Preview Updates – Grayed Out in Ribbon – Project Server 2010
By Collin Quiring In Project Server 2010, part of the process of the Update Cycle from Team Members to the Project Manager is for the Project Manager to use the Approval Center and Accept or Reject that tasks. One of the options for the Approval Center... (more...)
Process Status Field
By Collin Quiring I was teaching a class on updating tasks in Project Web App for Project Server 2010 and was asked a few questions about the Process Status updates field shown in the default My Assignments Process Status column. I went through a couple... (more...)
Microsoft Project 2013 Certification – Don’t Take it Here!
By: Collin Quiring Any regular reader of this blog knows that PMP Specialists is a Microsoft Partner specializing in Project Management and Project Server. And, I personally have taken the certification tests since the 2003 version. Lately, I have... (more...)
Project Professional and the Disappearing Format Tab in the Ribbon
BY: Collin Quiring The way the ribbon works is that the format tab will automatically appear based upon the view that you are in at the time. And, the options that the ribbon contains at that point are based upon the view so that you have options that... (more...)