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Dynamics 365 Project Operations helps service organizations and others with project profitability, project financials, and much more.

Have you ever tried to retrieve an enterprise project schedule template only to see the message: "Sorry, we had trouble connecting to get to the templates and can't show them right now"?

Even in a phased approach, adopting a project management system will be a challenge for the different roles to undertake

The Reports in Microsoft Project allow us to communicate our plan information in a visually compelling way. The reports can include many different types of items such as charts, images, tables, and more. Reports can be both viewed in the Project window and also printed and exported to different formats for distribution to other stakeholders.

This method works extremely well and quick! USE AdventureWorks2008R2;GO-- Truncate the log by changing the database recovery model to SIMPLE.ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2008R2SET RECOVERY SIMPLE;GO-- Shrink the truncated log file to 1 MB.DBCC SHRINKFILE (AdventureWorks2008R2_Log, 1);GO-- Reset the database recovery model.ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2008R2SET RECOVERY FULL;GO

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 […]

The latest Gartner report shows the CRM software market grew from $20.4 billion in 2013 to $23.2 billion in 2014.  An ongoing trend among all of this is the movement from the traditional on-premise solution to cloud-based solutions.  Although there are a number of cloud-based CRM solutions Microsoft Dynamics CRM took the title this year […]

I know it has been a long time coming but I hope that you have prepared your environment for this.  This article from CNN explains the ramifications of not being prepared but also provides guidance on what you should do.  If you upgrade to Windows 8, you will have support until 2023.  Read the full […]

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about Resource Plans and explained how they are used in Project Server. Today, I’ll walk you through how to create a Resource Plan. Open the project in PWA. Select the Project tab at the top and then click Resource Plan. Once the Resource Plan is open, click Build […]

Ever wonder how to work with Budget Resources in Microsoft Project? They can be a little tricky until you understand the basics so I’ve outlined the steps for you below. The first thing to do is create the Budget Resources, In this example, we’ll create one Cost Budget Resource and one Work Budget Resource. In […]

Hello, Microsoft does not offer trials in this manner any longer.  If your organization currently has an Office 365 portal, a Microsoft Project 30 day trial subscription may be enabled within the portal via the administrator.   A quicker method is to access the trial page located here and sign up yourself.  A credit card […]

The good news is that you created a master project with sub-projects and have successfully saved and published this master in Project Server. The bad news is that now you are unable to see any of those sub-projects in PWA. I ran into this in Project Server 2010 but it also happens in Project Server […]

Hi!  I am doing a little work with Project today and wanted to share something I learned.  Although most of you probably already know this, I thought to share anyway. Today I was testing saving a project file created in Project Professional 2010, to Project 2007.  In this case my project file had Manually Scheduled […]

To delete a Project Site Template in Project Server 2010, follow the steps below: In PWA, click on Site Actions –> Site Settings Under Galleries, click Solutions Before you can delete a Project Site Template in Project Server 2010, you must first Deactivate it. To do this, click the little down arrow all the way […]

This is part 4 in a 4 part series. Before reading, consider visiting these other valuable resources: Part 1: Viewing Resource Allocations Part 2: Preventing Over Allocations Part 3: Resolving Over Allocations Manually Leveling resources in Microsoft Project is not a popular thing to do. Honestly? I think the reason so many people despise this […]

Do you want to have access to your project plans on the go? Are you using Project Server? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you should really check out this app for Ipads and Iphones: http://www.planningproapp.com I have to admit I haven’t used it a lot but I have played with it […]

This is part 3 in a 4 part series. If you haven’t done so already, consider reading part 1 and part 2 before you try to tackle manually leveling resources. We don’t have enough resources to do the work in the time allocated. Period. I’ve yet to come across a company that does not struggle […]

If you want to change a resource’s rate on all future assignments but maintain the original rate on past assignments, follow the steps below: In PWA, navigate to the Resource Center. Check the box next to the names of resources whose rates need to be adjusted. Click the Open icon on the ribbon at the […]