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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Content Publishing News : Excel Services</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/epmcontent/archive/tags/Excel+Services/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Excel Services</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>New Enterprise Project Management Virtual Lab!</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/epmcontent/archive/2008/10/09/new-enterprise-project-management-virtual-lab.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3134581</guid><dc:creator>robert.m.hoover</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/epmcontent/comments/3134581.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/epmcontent/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3134581</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.technet.com/epmcontent/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3134581</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"&gt;The very first EPM-related VirtualLab was recently released! A hosted Virtual Machine accessible to everyone via WEB is free to use with only registration being required&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"&gt;Available via &lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Project Server TechCenter&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#1f497d&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"&gt; &lt;A href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/projectserver/"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/projectserver/&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;Direct link to the Lab is &lt;A href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9629821"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;here&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri color=#365f91 size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #365f91"&gt;Exercise 1:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri color=#365f91 size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #365f91"&gt;&amp;nbsp; Using built-in capability of &lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Analysis Services&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; in the EPM deployment&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Exercise 2:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp; Using &lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Excel Services&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; to Visualize Project Data&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Exercise 3:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp; Using &lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Performance Point Server&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; for advanced data visualization&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Exercise 4:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp; Using SQL &lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Reporting Services&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; Project Report Pack to Analyze Project Data&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Exercise 5:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp; Creating a &lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;SharePoint Dashboard&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; to Display Project KPIs&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Exercise 6:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp; Using &lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Visio 2007&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; to Visualize Project Data&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#365f91 size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #365f91"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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