RACI charts and Project
May 30, 2008
RACI charts are a convenient tool in the initial planning process for a project, helping to identify the parties that are Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed (RACI) throughout the project. To fill out a RACI chart, first you need to determine... Read more...
New Deployment templates are posted
May 29, 2008
If you want to install Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, or Office Project Server 2007, we have deployment templates to assist: Microsoft Office 2007 deployment (clean installation or upgrade from Office 2003) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server... Read more...
Timesheet Classifications
May 20, 2008
You can use classifications on timesheets to categorize the work being performed in your organization. For example, you can set up classifications for billable and nonbillable work. To use classifications, first you need to set them up in Project Web... Read more...
New Help Content - April
May 3, 2008
Check out the following new help content that was come out over the past month. Office Online content: The PWA Role Guides These role guides present broad overviews of Office Project Web Access functionality from the perspective of the different roles... Read more...
Project Fields and Their Descriptions
April 28, 2008
Modifying your Project views just got a little easier. Deciding on what field (column) to add is sometimes a hit or miss proposition. Many of the fields sound the same. After all, you don't want to confuse the BCWS field with the Budget Cost field. Now... Read more...
Values randomly appearing on your timesheet?
April 22, 2008
Picture this: you create a new timesheet in Project Web Access, and rather than seeing a blank timesheet, as you might expect, you see a timesheet prepopulated with Actual Work hours. But your project plan doesn't have any Actual Work! Where did the prepopulated... Read more...
Randomly Checked Out Projects
April 11, 2008
Here's a puzzler for you-a team member who does not have Microsoft Office Project 2007 installed on her machine has managed to check out a project. Any guesses as to how she pulled this off? Assuming the team member never had access to the Project 2007... Read more...
Project Server and Project Portfolio Server Sessions at TechEd 2008
March 28, 2008
TechED 2008 - Developers and TechEd 2008 - IT Professionals are two months away! Please find below the EPM sessions that will be delivered at these events: TechED 2008 - Developers Customizing the Microsoft Office Project Web Access User Interface Line-of-Business... Read more...
Understanding the Queue - Getting Queued State
March 27, 2008
If the projects you are trying to check in or publish appear to be stuck, something may be blocking the queue. The first step to resolving this issue is to look for projects in the Getting queued state. To view the jobs currently in the queue, click Server... Read more...
What tasks did I change again?
March 21, 2008
Have you ever been in a team meeting, made a bunch of updates to your project plan, and then wanted to know later which tasks you had actually updated? A coworker emailed me with this scenario today and I decided that the solution deserved a blog... Read more...