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New P12 Blog

February 9, 2006

As some of you may know, I have moved onto a new position within Microsoft (over in the Mobile Devices group). I have had a great 6 years working on Project and am excited to see P12 on its way to being delivered to market. Go to: http://blogs.msdn.com/project/ for... Read more...

Favorite Response to Project Confernce Demo

February 4, 2006

I thought that this was a funny story about the Project Conference. During Tuesday's keynote by our GM, Mike showed off multi-level undo in Project. Our VP was sitting in the audience and heard the person next to him gasp and say "Oh My God ..." The audience burst... Read more...

Project Conference Follow-Up + Hidden Gems

February 4, 2006

After a couple of weeks of rest, I wanted to give my impressions of the Project Conference and P12. It was great to see the big crowd and interest in Project. You could get a real sense for the number of attendees in the keynotes (over 1500) ... but otherwise... Read more...

Tuesday Project Conference Wrap-Up

January 18, 2006

The Grand Ballroom at the Westin was PACKED for Mike's keynote this morning at The Project Conference. I am not sure how we are going to fit more people for SteveB's keynote on Thursday. Mike showed off the work in Project Pro on the local (aka active)... Read more...

Tuesday Project Conference Best Bets

January 17, 2006

Tuesday is an overview day. We wanted to help folks get a high-level understanding of the scope of improvements in P12. It is a massive release. Here are a few recommendations re sessions at Tuesday's Project Conference: - Mike Anguilo KeyNote (8:15,... Read more...

Countdown to Project Conference

January 17, 2006

We are just a bit more than 12 hours away from the start of the Project Conference. This is definitely the coming out party for Project 12 ... though this year's conference also includes some great Project 2003 sessions and a number of sessions focused... Read more...

Project Cache

November 7, 2005

Beta 1 kept us quite busy last week so it ended up being a slow blog week. With the weather back to normal in Seattle (cloudy, wet, cool) and Beta 1 almost ready, I have a bit of time to talk about one of the biggest changes in P12 = the Project Cache. A... Read more...

Beta 1

October 27, 2005

We are hard at work finishing up Beta 1. Beta 1 is a closed, by invitation only "technical" beta. I am feeling reasonably good about the Beta. I would like to take another 4+ weeks to fix bugs. But it is important to get feedback on the feature set as... Read more...

Server-Side Custom Fields

October 27, 2005

With Project Server 12, we really wanted to expand the range of our reporting functionality. A key strength of the Project EPM Solution is the ability to define key fields for projects, resources, tasks, or assignments and then enforce use of those fields... Read more...

Server Side Scheduling

October 17, 2005

As we begin each product cycle, we take a look at customer feedback from users of the prior version + folks in our Beta program. With Project 2002 and 2003, customers were fairly unanimous in wanting to eliminate the "round-tripping" of actuals through... Read more...