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My Ideas, Tips and Tricks about Enterprise Project Portfolio Management using Microsoft technologies

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Prasanna Adavi

Download: Project Online and Project Server 2013 Options – A Quick Infograph

A couple of weeks ago, I was presenting Project Online to a group of people, who are more from the SharePoint Community than Microsoft Project. Their knowledge of Project, Project Server was more as users than IT Professionals. Midway through… Continue Reading →

Handling Special Characters in OData Queries

Recently, a question came up in the Project Server User Forums, where the user was trying to use a value as a filter in an OData query. The challenge was that the value he was filtering for, had an ‘&’… Continue Reading →

Timesheet Status Report with OData in #ProjectOnline

Untitled In a recent MPUG Web-n-Learn, I demonstrated building a quick Timesheet Status Report using OData in Project Online.  The report itself is not too complicated to build, but it helps show another example as to how OData could be… Continue Reading →

Build an Audit Log for Project Server Changes with Nintex

If you are Project Server Admin, at one time or the other, I am sure you felt the need to have an audit tracking of all the changes being made to the configuration of Project Server. This includes changes to… Continue Reading →

Project Lite–Trial, My Experience and First Impressions

Alright Folks! By now, as all of you know that Project Lite first announced at Project Conference 2014 has been officially launched on May 1, 2014. Brian Smith already did a great post on this topic! Just wanted to throw… Continue Reading →

5 Tips to use your Project Sites efficiently in Project Server

One thing I see in a lot of Project Server implementations consistently is the inefficient use of the Project Sites.  May be because the organization already has another tool like SharePoint, File Net or something to collaborate, store documents and… Continue Reading →

How to “plan” for AND “track” allocations/Actuals on Unplanned Work?

Recently, there was a question on the Project Server Forum (Click here) about being able to “plan” allocations on projects that do not need/have a detailed schedule. Think of work like Support work, Unplanned work and so on. The twist… Continue Reading →

Create a Department Vacation Calendar from #ProjectServer Timesheets and #Nintex

A few months ago, I was working with a Project Manager, who was very upset. Work on his project was delayed, because one of the critical resources assigned to it went on vacation without informing the PM. I immediately checked… Continue Reading →

White Paper published on MS Technet: Governing Your #PPM Solution

I recently got an opportunity to contribute content to the “From the Trenches” column, on    Project Server TechCenter on Microsoft TechNet. Just wanted to announce that the white paper is now published and can be downloaded here: Beat the Half-life… Continue Reading →

Enable Version Control for your Project Schedule in Project 2013 and SharePoint 2013

Many times, project managers tend to create several ‘versions’ of project schedules, before deciding which version should be the final version. If you are using MS Project 2013 ‘sync’ with SharePoint 2013 (more details here) , there is neat little… Continue Reading →

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