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Office 365 is a little unusual in that it is cloud software and you install it on your PC, to give you the best of all worlds. Then what is great is that Microsoft automatically adds new features that you will get to use too. Once you get this new software, you don’t always know […]

  Microsoft loves mobility.  It shows in everything they do, and in the focus of most every product they produce.  It is therefore no wonder they acquired a product like Wunderlist!  The Wunderlist product fits squarely with Microsoft’s ambition to reinvent productivity for a mobile-first, cloud-first world.  What’s better than completing an important task on […]

We just found this issue internally here at Integent. If you’re running windows 8 and you start being unable to access things you have accessed in the past. (In our case, it was a vpn connection into a client and an excel/powerpivot report in a client project online) take a look at the steps below […]

To help with your assessment needs, Microsoft has released the Office 365 Service Trust Portal (STP). STP is a service feature in Office 365 designed to provide deeper information on how Microsoft manages security, compliance and privacy. Through the STP you can get direct access to a wide variety of compliance reports and trust resources, […]

Recently, we were working on a nice set of Project Online timesheet reports for a client.  The fields we needed were in these Odata tables: Tasks TimesheetLines TimesheetLineActualDataSet We knew we were going to need to create some calculated fields, so we decided to use PowerPivot.  We needed to create relationships between these 3 tables, […]

At Integent we are often asked how to turn on Alerts and Reminders in Project Online. Up until last Thursday we have been telling customers the feature is not available in Project Online. Last week many Microsoft Project Online customers noticed new emails notifying them of task updates in their project plans. Alerts and Reminders […]

Should I upgrade to Project 2016? That is a great question, but if you have a partner like Integent the answer is of course yes. We can save you any pain or down time because of our extensive experience working with Project. We will know from our hundreds of clients if there are any issues […]

No Good Portfolio Data Unless Everybody Plays!  Lets put that project portfolio management (PPM) system to work.  The organization has a high level of maturity with PPM tools and understands how utilizing plays a part in the organizations return on investment.

We have been waiting to hear about what will be new in Microsoft Project 2016. Here is a brief overview of what is coming:   Resource Engagements For project managers, securing resources to ensure your project is properly staffed has always been a challenge. With Microsoft Project 2016, it’s now possible to systematically request a […]

As a trainer for Integent, I often stumble across new features by accident. While demonstrating the web-based editing capabilities in Project Online 2013 I realized that I was able to create a Start to Start dependency and even use lead and lag time! Thank you Microsoft!! With the release of Project Server 2010 came web-based […]

We love using Excel with Project Online or Project Server to pull updated live data at any time. Often, our clients want to see this data with some sort of conditional formatting.  Maybe it’s a heatmap throughout a numbers grid, or perhaps text highlighted  in bold or red when a number exceeds a threshold. In […]

Last week while training at a client site I was asked if a Project Manager can change who approves certain tasks in their projects from themselves to another Project Manager. The Project Manager would remain unchanged but certain tasks would be redirected to a different Project Manager’s approval page. My response was of course! Just […]

We’ve recently been assisting a client with a migration from Project Online to full blown Office 365. This project included rebranding the user experience, which led to a need to move the Project materials under a new site. With these sorts of moves, one of the due diligence steps we like to perform is to […]

We all want all our project to be successful, no matter what size. Our businesses depend on the success of our projects. So we always look for any helpful suggestions on how to get the most out of all of our projects and increase the probability of their success. This is an excellent set of […]

Integent recommends that you do not activate the new features. For those of you that did not read my previous blog you may have noticed a new yellow banner appearing on your Home page, Resource Center and on Server Settings page. While we are very excited about the new features being released, they are designed […]

The Integent team was surprised to see this yellow banner appearing on the Home page, Resource Center and Server Settings page in some of our customer’s Project Online environments. Having blogged about this a couple of weeks ago we are familiar with the new features available to 2016 but what happens if you activate it […]

There is a great Virtual Conference coming up for Project in October. Here are all the awesome sessions that you will get to watch at Project Virtual Conference 2015, scheduled for October 22-23, 2015.We’re confident that, with 3 tracks, over 50+  great sessions from industry experts, MVPs, customers, partners, and Microsoft Project team, the lineup […]

One of the biggest challenges for users new to Project 2016 will be learning the ribbon. As a trainer for Integent I am often asked in class where commands are located on the ribbon. I have been suggesting for years to add commands that you are always struggling to locate to the quick access toolbar […]