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Considering an upgrade to Project Server 2013 or 2016?  Have you considered Microsoft Project Online?  If not, you may want to.  Licensing for Project Online is actually more favorable than on-premise (depending on how long you run your on-premise version).  With Project online you also get the advantage of having Microsoft deal with all your […]

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.

Project Center is a great tool for presenting a portfolio in a snapshot. Using the right filters and grouping, you can quickly show health across the portfolio, projects grouped by client, capitalized vs. non-capitalized projects with costs. And all of this without manipulating a report. By nature, time is not an element we frequently feature […]

Ever wonder how Microsoft Project Server is calculating those Resource Availability numbers on the Requirements Details page in Portfolio Analysis? First make sure you have the Highlight Deficit checkbox selected. This highlights the months in red where you have deficits. Let’s focus on the month of September and the role of Product Engineer. I scrolled […]

We recently ran into an issue attempting a reporting database rebuild for a customer.  We were receiving the customary duplicate key insert errors which are staples in requiring a reporting DB rebuild.  Unfortunately when we attempted the rebuild we received the error below.  Although we found an article on Brian Smith’s blog that had some […]

Let me start by saying NEVER delete or edit an out of the box field on a project site for risks or issues in Microsoft Project Server or Microsoft Project Online. Doing so will create issues with syncing and you could see some of the following scenarios: Sync errors showing up the queue related to […]

I came across an interesting issue after my recent migration from Microsoft Project Server 2007 to Microsoft Project Server 2013. The migration was successful with a few errors that were due to the missing custom solutions. When I went to Project Center, Resource Center and Timesheet page after migration, the ribbon was disabled. I was […]

When you embark on an upgrade project from Microsoft Project Server 2007 to Microsoft Project Server 2013, you have this article from Microsoft as far as environment specification goes. However, I have realized that there is a need for a separate article that elaborates on upgrade specifications. One of the MUST items that I discovered […]

Just created a checklist to help in deciding if one should install stand-alone mode Microsoft Project Server 2013 or not. You get a choice at the time of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 install to either do a complete install or stand-alone install. Here I am focusing on the later option. stand-alone mode install is quicker and […]

I just ran into this strange behavior after upgrading Microsoft Project server from 2007 to 2013. After the upgrade a team member was able to log time against a task, it was sent to his manager for approval, his manager approved his time, but time was never visible in project. So, ‘Actual work’ remained zero […]