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Create a report of Users and Security Groups

A recent question asked in the Project Server Forums, and a frequent request I have received in the past prompted this blog post. The request was for a report that quickly shows all the users across the enterprise, and the… Continue Reading →

Managing Project Site Elements from Desktop – SharePoint Workspace 2010

One of the pain points in previous versions of Project Server is the ability of a two-way sync with the Project Issues, Risks and Documents from Desktop, without having to go into the Project Workspace every time. The ability to… Continue Reading →

Setting up an alert for Project Site Issue (and Risk) Alerts using SharePoint Designer Workflow-3

Now, for the final part – Saving the Site Template and making the issue alert part of of all new Project Sites. You can refer to Brian’s excellent post which is more detailed: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brismith/archive/2010/03/15/customizing-the-project-site-in-project-server-2010.aspx, but I will try to cover… Continue Reading →

Setting up an alert for Project Site Issue (and Risk) Alerts using SharePoint Designer Workflow-2

In this post lets get started, with the creation of the ’Issue Alert Workflow’. I will assume that you have SharePoint Designer 2010 downloaded (2007 will workf with PWA 2007 only). SharePoint Designer 2013 can be downloaded for free from:… Continue Reading →

Setting up an alert for Project Site Issue (and Risk) Alerts using SharePoint Designer Workflow

Update 12/14/16: This article has now been updated with images for SharePoint 2013. It should still work similarly for previous versions. One of the most frequently asked requirements by my Clients is that if they can get an email notification… Continue Reading →

Internet Explorer 6.0 and Project Server 2010

If you review the requirements for the usage of Project Web App 2010, it requires IE 7.0 or higher.  Recently I had a situation where it was not possible to upgrade the Client from IE 6 to IE 7. So,… Continue Reading →

Microsoft Community Contributor

Got the Microsoft Community Contributor Award this week from Mirosoft. 🙂

Delegation vs. Surrogate Timesheets

Delegation is an excellent feature that was introduced with Project Server 2010. (see more details http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project/archive/2010/03/19/project-2010-introducing-delegates.aspx). The premise is that this feature will replace the Surrogate Timesheets feature in Project Server 2007. Does it completely? Consider this scenario: Your organization… Continue Reading →

Protected baseline Issue when using a Project Server template

During a recent implementation for a client, when their PMs were trying set Baseline 0 for their newly created projects, were receiving the following error.Now, they were using an Enterprise template to create their projects. They were all in the… Continue Reading →

Error when trying to insert an administrative task

Noticed this error yesterday with one of the resources. He was trying to add an administrative task to his timesheet and he was getting the following error. I did try to replicate this on a different machine, but the feature… Continue Reading →

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