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The Microsoft Online Services sign in application provides a single sign in point for Microsoft Online Services. This simplifies the login process by allowing users to sign in once to access Microsoft Online Services. The sign in app can also easily change a user’s login service password, automatically launch at start up and display license expiration information. In our latest BPOS support video below we learn how to troubleshoot some of the most common problems that users may experience with the sign in application. We hope this video was helpful. Watch and learn more about Microsoft Online Services with our other support and how to blog posts . What other videos would you like to see? We want to hear from you in the comments section below or send an email to our community mailbox . Follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page.

The Object Link Provider (OLP) in Project Server 2010 enables the management of the Project-specific lists in a project site (issues, risks, deliverables, documents, and custom lists) and integration of the SharePoint lists with Project Server. The OLP

Excited to announce the release of the following diagrams (a sample below) on TechNet thanks to Sonia’s great work: Time and task progress workflow diagrams (Project Server 2010 ) Plenty more content got published recently as well: Project Server 2010 backward compatibility mode (BCM) Create a PWA site in backward compatibility mode (Project Server 2010) Testing a Project Server 2010 deployment (white paper) To stay up to date on content publication go here (RSS enable): Newly published content for Project Server 2010 And last but not least let us know if we are missing content on our site!

This week in BPOS news is a recurring segment on the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog that covers news from all sectors of Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Online Services business suite known as the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). You can read all past This Week in BPOS News segments here. For this week in BPOS news we take a look at what opportunities SMBs are seeing in the cloud, and we learn about a new medical innovation that is utilizing cloud computing. 1. SMBs See Opportunity in the Cloud SMBs stand for Small and Midsize Businesses, and SMBs are seeing the benefits of cloud computing. A Microsoft-sponsored survey entitled, “Cloud Computing as an Engine of Growth” questioned SMBs about the cloud. The survey is highlighted in this InformationWeek post . The numbers from the survey reflect about one third of SMBs polled see the cloud as an opportunity for their IT department to be “more strategic” and SMBs view embracers of the cloud as “innovative.” About 12% of SMBs are “Born in the cloud” which means “the primary capability for their business is through cloud technology as the leading thing that enables them to do it.” There are many other interesting stats about SMBs and

The Project Professional 2007 TimeScaleValue object can result in a COM exception, or other crash, if used several times in quick succession.

I wanted to echo Brian Smith’s latest post over on the Project Admin Blog about the release of the Project Server 2010 and 2007 CUs being live: Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint 2007 and 2010 December CU 2010 are (mostly) Live! Brian Smith 15 Dec 2010 12:23 PM Great News!

Following this post from Arpan Shah Project Momentum 2010 EMEA about the recent event we held last month in Barcelona, I wanted to provide pointers to the technical content that was delivered. Recordings : Deploying Microsoft Project Server 2010 by Christophe Fiessinger (check out video at 2:45…) Project Server 2010 Upgrade and Migration by Raphael Ax, Jan Kalis, and Bishan Ruder Best Practices: Troubleshooting Project Server 2010 Deployments by Brian Smith Project 2010 Development for SharePoint Developers by Jan Kalis Light Up Your Project 2010 with SharePoint Server 2010 BI Capabilities by Jan Kalis Continuing Innovation in Project 2010 by Eric Zenz Hitchhiker’s Guide to Demand Management by Steven Haden Slides : Project Momentum 2010 (EMEA) Event Slide Presentations: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8bfe4f93-eb06-4104-bbc7-ee962d408e2b&displaylang=en As a reminder there are plenty more videos from that event, including customer case studies on our dedicated Project video channel: https://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/channels/microsoftproject/results?sf=ActiveStartDate

In our latest BPOS support video we learn how to configure and view shared calendar information. This is a very useful feature that allows co-workers to view your schedule and even manage other users’ calendars on their behalf. This video walks us through how to use your Exchange Online calendar from Outlook to allow for shared calendars. You will also learn how to set calendar sharing permissions, and use OWA to access an Exchange Online calendar share. Watch and learn more about Microsoft Online Services with our other support and how to blog posts . What other videos would you like to see? We want to hear from you in the comments section below or send an email to our community mailbox . Follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page.

Last month, the Project team hosted Project Momentum 2010 EMEA in Barcelona, Spain – a 2-day event focused on our Europe, Middle East and Africa customers and partners. It was a great opportunity for us to learn from the Project community as well as an opportunity for the community to share best practices with each other. Thank you to everyone who participated and made this event a tremendous success! With over 240+ partners and customers from 28+ different countries, we had a very diverse audience! While it’s just a small part of our worldwide 20 million user Project community, it provides a unique and intimate environment for learning. I personally had the opportunity to connect with many different people through sessions, networking events and side-meetings. Truth be told, it’s what I learn from our customers and partners that makes these events so special. It was especially nice hearing about how customers & partners are deploying Project 2010 in their organizations and gaining business value today and not waiting for SP1. It’s great to hear since the team put in a lot of effort to make sure Project 2010 is a high quality release. Some examples of customers who talked about their Project 2010 experiences at Momentum include Volvo ( session , written case study ), NATO ( session ) and Kudelski ( session ). For those of you who weren’t able to make it to the conference or for those of you looking to share content with your teams, I recommend taking a look at some of the conference content here . I recommend starting with the keynote below (from the 5:05 mark after the conference welcome) that I had the honor to kick-off followed by Ludovic Hauduc, General Manager of the Project engineering team, who did a great job providing his personal insight into the Project 2010 release. I especially recommend watching the keynote demos at around the 43:10 mark. Eric Zenz, a Senior Program Manager Lead on Ludo’s team, does three great live demos: Office 365 and Project Professional 2010 demo that highlights SharePoint Online tasks sync with Project Professional 2010

It’s Technical Tuesday and we are featuring a technical look at how to use MX records to enable inbound messaging. MX stands for Mail Exchange, and a single domain can have multiple MX records. MX records are entries in DNS that specify the mail server addresses that you want email messages sent to your domain to be delivered to. The video below explains more about MS records and how configuration works with your domain. MX records are important when in a coexistence like Microsoft Online Services.