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I actually took this exam 10/15 and was quite happy with the results. Reason being, despite my not studying I did remarkably well. I have to say that having used Project Server 2010 since about September 2009, I was very familiar with the tool. I also felt most of the questions on the exam were […]

  reposted from Christophe Fiessinger’s blog. I suspect MPN will be engaged in this type of project soon and thought best to have this information handy.  Thank’s to Christophe. A frequent question I have heard recently from key customers: how can the latest version of Microsoft Project Server be integrated with our existing SAP implementation? […]

  Reposted from TechNet Published: May 12, 2010 This article describes how to configure integration with Exchange Server 2007 SP2, enabling Project Server 2010 users to view Project Server tasks in Microsoft Office Outlook. This functionality replaces the Outlook Add-in task status reporting functionality for non-time–phased tasks that is available in previous versions of Project […]

  reposted from Project Team Blog, and special thanks to Chris Boyd. Exchange Integration provides the ability for team members on a project to view, update, delete and report status on their published tasks in Outlook, Outlook Web Access (OWA) or any other application that is capable of syncing tasks from Exchange Server. This functionality […]

The August 2010 Cumulative Update (CU) for Project and Project Server 2007 and 2010 have been released.  Yesterday, Brian posted this to the Project Admin Blog.  Thanks Brian.  See his blog post for the detailed information this CU release. http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectadministration/archive/2010/09/02/microsoft-project-server-and-sharepoint-2007-and-2010-august-cu-2010-are-live.aspx Please note that Microsoft has changed/organized the CU packages rollup from 2007 to 2010.  For […]

What are cumulative updates? Cumulative updates are a new method of providing hotfix releases on a scheduled delivery basis for Office Server products, including Project Server and Project desktop 2007 and 2010. Through this model, Office hotfixes are released every two months in the form of a downloadable package of current and previous hotfixes. The […]

While reading through one of the many blogs and user groups that I belong to, I came across an interesting article on Vacations for Project Managers. We all try to keep the work/personal life balance and I agree that your vacation time should be your time to disconnect.  Like fellow blogger Bruce, I agree that […]

Good Evening Folks,On a recent discussion group, I added in my two cents on the discussion ‘Why should we migrate from Project Server 2003 to Project Server 2010 rather than Project Server 2007’.  Well there is so much we could write here however rather than attempting to put a whitepaper topic in a blog, I […]

How many times to we hear this quote?  “We need to evaluate the costs and benefits for each potential project as part of an overall portfolio” (taken from the MSFT Case Study) As this Case Study illustrates, Microsoft Project 2010 is the solution that meets these needs.  This is a good write-up on a Project […]

Good Afternoon Folks, This is just a gentle reminder to make sure that you enter your PDU’s as you go.  By doing so you make sure to capture all of your PDU credits and you do not have to remember what you did over the 3 year PDU period.  I always try and have made […]

Good Afternoon Folks, Got a question from Project Server user community that I wanted to share incase some of you others have similar questions. Question:  How do I Select All in Project Server 2010 Resource Center? MPN Response:  As you know there are a several enhancements in Project and Project Server 2010.  One of these […]

Microsoft Project 2010 has Microsoft in the leader and visionary quadrant for PPM.  We are often asked by clients how does this compare to other products and companies and this supports the fact that Microsoft Project is a complete Project and Portfolio Management tool.  Spread the word … Microsoft is the Microsoft is in the […]

Good Afternoon Folks, I was working within the PS2010 RDB and wanted to get some additional information on the RDB.  I was reminded that I was going to put the MSDN link that I reference often.  Also wanted to share a query (provided by MSFT) - that you can run to find custom field data […]

Thank you Christophe for the following information on the June CU. Folks, Adrian’s webcast is very well done.  It includes the MSFT CU process as well as details on the June CU (including 2007 and 2010).  I particularly like the examples during the Hotfix overview part.  If you missed it – check it out as […]

Thanks to Jan and the MSFT team for all the helpful information.  Job well done. Q: I heard about some deprecations from the Project Portfolio Server 2007, could you be more specific? A: In Project 2010 we have unified the two server products from 2007 release into single one – this brings many benefits for […]

Thank you Christophe for sharing this link -- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrisfie/archive/2010/07/19/microsoft-project-and-sharepoint-server-2010-better-together-white-paper-amp-webcasts.aspx?goback=.gde_1935612_member_25118009 These gents sure got into it in this article.  Check it out.

Thank you MSFT for publishing (on July 14th, 2010) this document.  The screenshots are good and a couple of the scripts at the end are nice to have all in one location. Early MSFT mentioned that there would be no migration path for Portfolio Server 2007 to Portfolio Server 2010 – this document addresses some […]

This is a very helpful interactive guide for the new Project 2010 ribbon.  All you need to do is click on the command in Project 2007 to see how to do the same/similar steps in Project 2010 (using the new ribbon). Give it a shot:  http://www.microsoft.com/project/en/us/ribbon_guide.aspx