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Modify Quick Launch with LONG URL and/or HTML Tags
BY: Collin Quiring A client of ours has a highly customized Quick Launch in their Project Online instance (this will work the same with internal Project Server as well). Some of those links are External and some are Internal. But, we ran into an interesting... (more...)
Accepting External Links
BY: Collin Quiring We recently ran into a slight issue with the ability to accept External Links in a Microsoft Project file. We were using Project Professional with Project Server. But, this works the same in Project Online. And, in this case, we had... (more...)
Project Center – Blank Screen (No Grid)
By: Collin Quiring We have had an ongoing issue with one tenant where everything is working fine and there are no errors in the queue or the logs. However, there is one very significant issue – the Project Center screen is blank. There is no grid,... (more...)
Using Multiple Domains – Project Professional
By: Collin Quiring We have a client with multiple internal domains and they were using Project Professional with Project Server. They needed to use different domains for Project Server than for their regular PC. The userid’s are different in each... (more...)
Power BI Licensing
By: Collin Quiring As Power BI continues to rapidly grow in popularity Microsoft continues to modify the way Power BI can be used based upon licenses. This is both good and bad. Bad in that they deprecate some features while moving them to other license... (more...)
Removing the Hammock Task – The Un-Hammock
By: Collin Quiring In a previous entry we explained how to make a task span a time period based upon other tasks’ durations or start/finish dates. This is called a Hammock task. That link can be found here –https://epmstrategy.com/microsoft-project-the-hammock-task/... (more...)
Power BI in the Magic Quadrant
BY: Collin Quiring At EPM Strategy we have been making a significant investment in Business Intelligence – particularly in Power BI. This is a natural extension and need from our clients that need and want Project Information. One of the capabilities... (more...)
New and Updated White Papers
By Collin Quiring Some things in Microsoft Project change quite a bit from version to version. And, some things barely change at all. However, we have just recently updated or added new some white papers to our website. The White Paper section is under... (more...)
Feature Differences between Project Online and Project Professional (and Project Server)
By: Collin Quiring We are often asked by clients about whether or not they should implement Project Online in the cloud or Project Server in-house. Clients sometimes have different reasons as to which one they want to use or sometimes they have asked... (more...)
Maintain your Enterprise Template Formatting
BY: Collin Quiring An ongoing issue with Project Professional and creating templates is losing any custom formatting that you might spend your time and effort on when creating those templates. There are a couple potential work-arounds that can get cumbersome... (more...)