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Monday, November 23, 2009 9:35 AM

New Project Server Admin Blog

The product team for Project and Project Server have started a new blog to segment their content about the administration of Project Server environments. It can be found here and will be a must read if you are involved in the deployment or administration
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Friday, November 20, 2009 8:02 PM

It’s a Thanksgiving Beta!

If you are enough of a Project-nerd to read this blog you likely already know that the Project 2010 public beta is out and ready for you to download . I have been using and testing it several months and I can honestly say that it is the strongest version
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:00 AM

Project 2010 Feature: Team Planner

OK, flat out this is the coolest thing to happen to the Project desktop since, well, since maybe EVER! So here is a sample project. 5 tasks, 4 of them assigned to Del Griffith:   Here is the project represented in the Team Planner view: A row for
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:14 PM

Project 2010 Features: Timeline

The Timeline is a very cool feature in Project 2010 Standard and Professional. It adds a pane at the top of the Gantt Chart view that looks very much like a Visio timeline drawing. You can pick which tasks from your project show up in the Timeline. It
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:14 AM

Auto-Generate ProjectID in Portfolio Server 2007

You can have Project Portfolio Server 2007 auto-generate a ProjectID for you. To do so: Click Settings | Organization Management | Organization Settings Pick your organization and then click Edit In the Organization Template Code you enter the template
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Friday, September 04, 2009 1:34 PM

Project Conference

Late next week I will be in Phoenix for the pre-events and meetings for the Project Conference. If you are going to be there let me know. I will be trying to update here with the big stuff and will be updating http://www.twitter.com/briankennemer with
Posted by brianken | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:43 PM

PMBlvd Blog Guest Post

I guest posted over on the PMBlvd blog “PM Bistro” about keeping processes and PM tools simple. Check it out.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 1:32 PM

Planning as Guessing

The guys at 37 Signals were almost on to a good thing with this post about Planning as Guessing. Sure plans are guesses. Sure they are just a hopeful take on what we think might happen. Nobody that is good at what they do has ever questioned the transient,
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:58 PM

New Behavior in Timesheets with Project Server 2007 SP2: Timesheet Pre-population Goodness

Brian Smith writes here about a new behavior added in SP2 around timesheet pre-population and some reports of some customer dissatisfaction. The ‘Gist’ is that with SP2 if you have the ‘Current task assignments’ option in the Default Timesheet Creation
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:05 AM

Project 2010 Technical Preview

Just in case mine is the only Project blog you read, in which case you should really expand your blogroll by the way, here is an invitation to join the Technical Preview for the next version of Project and Project Server. :-) _________________________________
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:31 AM

Filtering for an NA date in a PWA View

This post is for the person named Santhiya that commented on my “ Server-side Calculation of Custom field formulas ” post. I accidentally deleted it instead of approving it. I have it in my notification email so here is what they asked: How do we use
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Friday, March 20, 2009 4:38 PM

Code to Show Which Tasks have Which Baselines Saved

Here is a sample of some VBA code that will populate the Task Text30 field with the numbers of the baselines for which each task has values saved. This is useful if you are using lots of the baselines but not all your tasks have had all the baselines
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:23 PM

The Project Conference…Be there or be…er…um…slightly more or less square than those that are actually there.

OK as nerdy things go I’m pretty sure a 4 day conference about Project Server ranks right up there. Maybe not as nerdy as Blizzcon but for sure more nerdy than Comdex. Of course I’m using ‘nerd’ in its most complimentary sense. :-) September 14-17 2009
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:39 PM

Taking Requests

After having tested and found what I think are good settings for my screencasting I would like to gather suggestions for topics to cover. Im thinking of a variety of topics ranging from beginning user tips around using Project Standard\Professional (creating
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Monday, February 23, 2009 4:54 PM

Final Test: Progress Lines in Project, Now with Stilted\Halting Voiceover

OK. I’m learning how to use encoder to manipulate things like viewer size and whatnot. Sadly, it does not fix how freaked out I am when I know I’m being recorded. So you will have to put up with some “UMs and ERRs” in this one (and likely for a while
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