Posts from:Microsoft Project
Compatibility – IE 10 and PWA
BY: Collin Quiring As more and more of my users get Internet Explorer (IE) 10 I am getting questions about error messages. To clarify, as of this writing, IE 10 and Project Server 2010 don’t play well together. Some screens within Project Web App... (more...)
Project Server 2010 OLAP Cube Permission Errors
BY: Ali Salih Just a quick note for a strange error we got while trying to get an OLAP cube to work in Project Server 2010. The problem seems to be that we were using a non-default directory for Analysis Services. Every time that we ran the... (more...)
Project Server 2010 – Copying a Project Detail Page
BY: Collin Quiring Recently an associate created a Project Detail Page (PDP) that had a large number of fields in it. He added the appropriate custom and standard project fields (about 25) to the PDP knowing that he would have to create a very similar... (more...)
UPDATING A TASK – Duration Calculations – Manual vs Timesheet Entry
BY: Pete Evangelista When a project schedule has both Local Resources and Enterprise Resources assigned to the same task there are some unique challenges that are presented to the Project Manager during the task update process. The following example... (more...)
Cross Project Task Dependencies in Project Server 2010
BY: Collin Quiring Sometimes two projects on the same Project Server 2010 instance are being managed separately, perhaps even by different groups or organizations, but they have inter-dependencies. When doing Google and Bing searches for the best way... (more...)
Timesheets – The Timesheet Chain
BY: Collin Quiring Having recently worked on two separate Project Server 2010 implementations where each organization used the Timesheet functions I have come across a few gotcha’s that I think might be helpful to document. This article will discuss... (more...)
Timesheets and Task Updates – a High Level Overview
This article is an overview for the diagram that can be found here: http://pmpspecialists.com/WhitePapers.html and is called “Timsheet and Task Update Workflow”. The diagram and this article are a high level overview and are to help with... (more...)
Project Professional and Project Server 2010 (and 2007) Version Numbers
BY: Collin Quiring Updated: October, 2013 I am asked “What release (version) of Project do I have?” and “What is the latest update?” quite often and this is an attempt to help answer those questions. And, this also answers the question about... (more...)
Resource Management with Project Server 2010 – Part 2 of 2
This article, written by Collin Quiring, first appeared in Wellington Project Management newsletter in December 2011. (http://www.projectserver2010.co.uk/2011/11/08/resource-management-with-project-server-2010/) Last time we started this two-part... (more...)
Microsoft Project Conference 2012
I am excited about being one of the presenters at the Microsoft Project Conference 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona. My topic is going to be “Resource Management – Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together!”. I will be talking... (more...)