When: Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 9:30 AM - Friday, February 11, 2011 at 5:00 PM (GMT) Where: Technology House Shottery Brook Office Park Timothy's Bridge Road CV37 9NR Stratford Upon Avon United Kingdom For more details, course content and to register for this event please go to: https://taipsadmin2010100211-rss.

We had a support case this week relating to the use of the samples from the SDK on a Spanish version of Project Server 2010.

This probably isn’t a very common scenario – but you may run in to it.

How often are you told that your project will start on date x and then it is moved to date y, maybe date z before it finally gets going? Now when your project start date moves, you can just update the start date in the Project Information dialog and a lot of dates will update but not all of them (ex. deadlines, constraints, tasks with actual work). If you want those to move you need to go through Move Project. The advantage of Move Project is that everything in the project is moved with respect to its original offset from the project start date. For example, in this project task b has a deadline 5 days into the project and task c has a constraint to start 2 days after the project’s start date. Now I select Move Project to update the project start date to 1/12/11. And everything in the updated plan has the same offset as it had before. Task b has a deadline 5 days into the project and task c has a constraint to start 2 days after the project’s start date. In Project 2007 and earlier, you can access this functionality on the Analysis toolbar, Adjust Dates but there are a few limitations: deadlines and tasks with non-zero percent complete aren’t moved.

OK. I’ll admit it. Sometimes documentation for Project and Project Server isn’t always easy to locate. It tends to be spread out. And sometimes it can be difficult to determine if the Help documentation you’re reading is from an official site. Worse, some URL’s have changed, and some new locations have been created. Let me help you set the URLs (and your Favorites list) correctly. Official Project Help sites Product information From this site you can try and buy Project, reach our partner and user communities, compare Project versions, learn tips and tricks, learn from modules and exercises, and see Project in action with demos, customer success videos and stories. Project desktop Help on Office Online Office Online contains Help for primarily the end user of Project and Office applications. Find Help articles, tutorials, and videos on basic Project functionality. Project Web Access Help on Office Online Help for Project Web Access end users can be found on Office Online. Help for Project Server administrators, however, is on TechNet . Project Server Help on TechNet TechNet is geared toward administrators of Project and Project Server.

Good article from Janis Rizzuto from Projects@Work about the Team Foundation Server and Project Server integration feature pack to start the year: Microsoft Beta Connects Developers, PMs 🙂 Hope you all had great holidays and back in full swing, a great Microsoft Project 2011 year in perspective.

Customer requests fueled two new documentation resources for Project Server 2010! These resources just went live at the end December. If you have feedback on either of these resources, feel free to leave comments here, or send email to projdocs@microsoft.com . Article: Archive a completed project This article details the standard method for archiving completed projects, as performed by a project manager and administrator. It also provides a high-level look at some alternate archiving methods, as well as some best practices for long-term archival. Diagram: Tracking time and task progress in Project Server 2010 This Visio file contains diagrams that illustrate five different timesheet and task progress workflow scenarios. Standard (Single Entry Mode).

In Project 2010, we’ve simplified the view creation process down to two steps. Step 1 : Update your current view to something that you want to save. In this example, I’ve inserted a few columns and applied a group to the Task Usage view. Step 2 : On the View tab, from any of the view dropdowns, click Save View.

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