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In Project 2010 we introduced a new concept called “User-Controlled Scheduling” which is a collection of features designed to give you more control over how tasks are scheduled. Project’s powerful scheduling engine is still there if you want to use it but you also have the flexibility to override it. Click here for the original post. One of the key features in User-Controlled Scheduling is manually scheduled tasks. These tasks, just as the name implies, are not affected by the scheduling engine and they will only move if you manually update them. This gives you more control over your schedule but one of the areas you didn’t have control was editing timephased data for them. For example, you couldn’t edit work values in the Task Usage view or report timephased data in task statusing for manually scheduled tasks. Based on your feedback, with Project 2010 SP1 you can now edit timephased data for manually scheduled tasks on the Project Client and Project Server. Prior to SP1, the circled areas are read-only for manually scheduled tasks: With SP1, you can now edit the timephased values for Manually Scheduled tasks just like you can for Auto Scheduled tasks. This is being demonstrated in the My Work view on Project Server and Task Usage view in the Project client: Key Takeaways: Project Server – If you are using timephased tracking (Hours of work done per period) in My Work or Single Entry Mode (a setting on Timesheets), all tasks can be tracked this way, not just auto scheduled tasks. Project Client – You can edit work contours for all tasks now. You can learn more about Project 2010 SP1 here .

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Back in October of 2009, we introduced you to a new feature in Project Professional 2010 that allows you to synchronize tasks from a project file with a SharePoint task list called Sync to SharePoint (see the original post for details). One of the caveats of the feature was that you were limited to sync’ing manually scheduled tasks. Based on your feedback, we enabled synchronization of automatically scheduled tasks in Project 2010 SP1! Let’s see how this works. Here’s the initial task list: When you sync it to SharePoint you get the following. The tasks look manually scheduled here since essentially they are because SharePoint doesn’t have a scheduling engine like Project does. So if you update Task1 to be on Thursday instead of Wednesday, the other tasks won’t move out in SharePoint even though they are linked: But once you sync the task list back into the Project client, the schedule will get updated as one would expect: If you aren’t familiar with manually scheduled tasks versus automatically scheduled tasks, see this post . You can learn more about Project 2010 SP1 here . Thanks again for sending all the feedback and we hope that this update helps improve your SharePoint Sync’ing experience.

As I mentioned on Monday in this post , with SP1 the team member pages are now supported on Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. This means team members can now view the tasks they are assigned to and submit status and timesheets all through their preferred browser. Why the team member pages first? We heard from you that there was the most need for this and that the team member role is the most prevalent. Team members are defined as people who work on the project’s tasks. Supported Environments: Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit) on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Internet Explorer 8 (32-bit) on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Internet Explorer 7 (32-bit) on Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Firefox 3.6.8+ on Mac OS X v10.6, Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit), Windows Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3, Windows 2003 and UNIX/Linux, Google Chrome 6.0 on Windows 7 Safari 5 on Mac OS X v10.6 Supported Pages: Project Web App (PWA) main default page (default.aspx) All pages in the “My Work” section in the quick launch which includes Tasks Timesheet Issues and Risks For the remainder of the pages in PWA such as Project Center and Portfolio Analysis, you still need Internet Explorer 7 and up. If you are on a Macintosh-based computer, see this article for how to access the remainder of the pages and the Project client. And here’s the proof – Firefox:

Today, the Office Division announced additional details of the upcoming Service Pack 1 (SP1) here . Service Pack 1 is on track for release at the end of June 2011 . It will be available for all of the Office 2010 applications, including Microsoft Project Standard 2010, Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Microsoft Project Server 2010. It was about a year ago that we announced that Project 2010 had launched. A number of customers jumped right onto Project 2010 and have shared their experiences here . Since the release we’ve received tons of feedback on everyone’s experiences with Project 2010 through a variety of channels – events, this blog, forums , etc. To everyone who provided positive feedback, that’s great. We’re really excited that you are enjoying 2010 and that it is making you and your company more productive. To those of you who provided more constructive feedback, a big thanks to you. This feedback really helps us to improve the product and we funneled a number of your requests into SP1. In total, we fixed over 200 issues in SP1 for Project and Project Server. Additionally SP1 is a rollup of all the fixes we’ve previously shipped meaning it contains all of the cumulative updates that have been released to date. I’d like to highlight four of the bigger fixes we made that have all been highly requested by you. In the coming days, we will post additional details on each of these. Multi-Browser Support for time entry in Project Web App – Post on 5/17 With SP1, Project Web App pages needed by team members to submit task status and timesheets are supported on FireFox, Safari, and Chrome. Enhancements to sync’ing Project tasks to a SharePoint task list – Post on 5/18 SharePoint task list sync now also supports auto scheduled tasks in addition to manually scheduled tasks Time-phased support for manually scheduled tasks – Post on 5/19 You can now edit time-phased data for manually scheduled tasks in Project and Project Server. Improvements to project scheduling in Project Web App – Post on 5/20 You can now edit project plans that contain fixed work and effort driven tasks in Project Web App. Additionally, join us on July 6th for a webcast that covers SP1. We’ll be posting additional information about this on our webcast channel . And as always, for more information on Project visit www.microsoft.com/project Ludo. Ludovic Hauduc – General Manager – Microsoft Project Business Unit

One of the new additions we did for the Project Server 2010 TechNet content is to embed videos into the content.

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 find out

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It’s hard to believe it has been a year already when we announced the Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server 2010 release on the official Project blog: Microsoft Project 2010 has Launched! So much has happened during the past year in terms of customer momentum, partner readiness, solutions, content, books etc. that it would be impossible to recap it all. Instead to illustrate the awesome momentum this release has I will just illustrate recent related announcement and releases in the past 24 hours alone (and by no mean exhaustive), simply amazing: Microsoft Project for the masses RTM’d Today: Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out (O’Reilly) Enterprise Applications: Microsoft Project 2010: Top 10 Features ( eWeek.com ) An guess what we have a lot more imminent announcements and news you will all enjoy so stay tune to the Project channel! I baked a nice virtual muffin for the occasion and I wish you a very very happy Birthday Microsoft Project 2010!