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Project and Portfolio Management Readiness Sessions for Microsoft Partners

tara — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:28:34 GMT

The Microsoft UK Project and Portfolio Management team have worked tirelessly to organise various readiness sessions, aimed at Microsoft partners. These sessions include sales readiness training, tailored for sales and pre-sales employees, describing the common pain points customers experience and explaining how a project management can help, along with a sales overview of the Microsoft project management solution. There will also be a technical day in early 2010, aimed at developers and architects, which will cover various aspects of the Microsoft project management solution to a very deep technical level.

The first of these readiness sessions will be a series of sales readiness Live Meetings (part of the overall partner readiness Live Series), starting Tuesday 8th September at 4pm. Registration links for all of these Live Meetings are listed below. Register for the first one now- there’s not much time to spare!

Details of all the project management readiness training for partners is listed below. If you have any questions, or would like a pdf copy of this information, please contact me directly.

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Microsoft Project and Portfolio Management solution
(Enterprise Project Management)

Upcoming Sales and Technical Readiness Events

Sales Readiness Live Meetings Tara Hellier

8th September 2009 4pm-5.30pm Project and Portfolio Management Sales Refresher

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=550183

A 1.5 hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the business benefits of EPM, what customer pain points EPM can solve, how to identify EPM opportunities, gain an overview of the EPM architecture and how it fits in the Microsoft stack, and see an EPM product demonstration.

15th September 2009 4pm-5pm Project Server Overview

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=550203

A one hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, enabling them to better sell the EPM solution to their customers.

29th September 2009 4pm-5pm Portfolio Server Overview

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=549471

A one hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, enabling them to better sell the EPM solution to their customers.

6th October 2009 4pm-5pm Demo Tips and Hot Topics

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=549720

A one hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals who need to demonstrate the Microsoft EPM solution as part of their role. We will discuss best practices for demoing the EPM solution, how to set up demo environments and the primary topics customers are usually interested in.

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Project Management / EPM Recruitment Day Kevin Lief

20^th October 2009

Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park

Details to be announced closer to event

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Project Server Exam Preparation Course Ben Howard, MVP

2^nd – 4^th November

QA office, London

A three day course specifically designed to help the delegates to pass Exam number 70-633 ‘Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects’.

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Project Server Exam Cram Day Ben Howard, MVP

27^th November 2009

Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park

A 1-day ‘exam cram’ Project Server 2007 Certification preparation to help you get your technical consultants ‘across the line’ and passing the EPM exam number 70-633, i.e. ‘Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects’

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Partner Sales Readiness Day Tara Hellier

26^th November 2009

Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park

A one day training session, covering some aspects of the Microsoft EPM solution to a lower level, including project selection, project initiation, resource management, time and task progress tracking and collaboration, giving sales and pre-sales professionals more detailed product knowledge, allowing them to match EPM capabilities to customers’ needs.

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Sales Readiness Live Meetings Tara Hellier

11th November 2009 (TBC) 4pm-5.30pm Project and Portfolio Management Sales Refresher

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=550183

24th November 2009 4pm-5pm Project Server Overview

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=550203

1st December 2009 4pm-5pm Portfolio Server Overview

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=549471

8th December 2009 4pm-5pm Demo Tips and Hot Topics

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=549720

A 1 hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals who need to demonstrate the Microsoft EPM solution as part of their role. We will discuss best practices for demoing the EPM solution, how to set up demo environments and the primary topics customers are usually interested in.

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Annual Partner Technical Day Bob Walker/Tara Hellier

January / February 2010

Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park

Details to be announced closer to event

Project Server Report Pack 2 – Webcast today at 4pm

tara — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:03:34 GMT

Slightly short notice, but there will be a webcast today (4pm – 5pm BST) around the EPM 2007 Report Pack- well worth watching, particularly if you or your customers are interested in EPM reporting.

Event Overview

The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) 2007 Report Pack provides rich reports for common information needs. The EPM 2007 Report Pack is a collection of 12 Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports designed for various user groups of the EPM solution. In this webcast, we provide an overview and demonstration of the EPM 2007 Report Pack. We discuss the different usage scenarios the reports are tailored to fit and review the components used to move, store, and render the reports. With this information, you should have a better understanding of how to use the EPM 2007 Report Pack to provide business value for your organization.

EPM VPC v4 available now! Upgrade today!

tara — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:01:58 GMT

The last PPM/EPM 2007 VPC v4 based on Project 2007 is out! The current v3 will expire mid-August, so you want to get v4 as soon as possible!

Project and Portfolio Management (PPM/EPM) VPC v4

VPC version: 4.0

Expiration date: 11/1/2010

Size: 18GB / 10GB (compressed)

Products version: 2007

SP/CU version: SP2, April CU

Highlights:

New SSRS reports to showcase the upcoming report pack (will be announced later in August)
SP2 and April Cumulative Update for Project, Project Server, WSS, and SharePoint Server
Usage must adhere to EULA terms: “…You may use the software in the virtual hard disk image only to demonstrate and internally evaluate it. You may not use the software in a live operating environment…”
Recommended HW configuration is 2 GB RAM (available for the VPC) and performance Hard Drive

Hosted Version

VPC and script are accessible as hosted TechNet Virtual Lab

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9665059

Image download

You can download EPM VPC v4 from the partner network.

http://partner.microsoft.com/productdemos

Q&A:

Q: Where is the demo script?

A: It’s part of the compressed archive. Alternatively you can use the original v2 demo script.

Q: Is the SP2 for Project Portfolio Server 2007 installed in this VPC final?

A: Project Portfolio Server (PPS) SP2 installed in this VPC v4 is not the version of officially released SP2 for PPS, but on parity feature-wise.

Q: Why is the http://epm2007demo URL not in the IE’s Trusted sites anymore?

A: Feel free to add the server URL into the IE Trusted sites list, especially if you are demoing the “out-of-the-box” reporting capabilities of Project Server that are using the Office Web Components. Else we discourage you to do so as you might get prompted for credentials on every time you try to access any sub-site in the http://epm2007demo location.

Q: Where can I learn more about Project 2010?

A: http://www.msprojectconference.com

Become a Demo Master!

tara — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:10:32 GMT

2010 isn’t too far away, and EPM partners need to act now to make sure they’re fully equipped to provide amazing product demos. Watch this video, produced by certain famous faces in the EPM product team over in Redmond, to find out the recommended hardware and software setup for demoing 2010.

Are you using the UK SI Partner Toolkit?

tara — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:57:49 GMT

If not, why not?!

At the beginning of 2009, your intrepid team of Partner Technology Advisors worked night and day to create and collate all of the best resources for SharePoint, Enterprise Project Management, Unified Communications, Business Intelligence, Security and Management and Virtualisation.

We’ve included product positioning presentations, software demos, PowerPoint sales presentations, case studies, competitive insights, training and readiness, solutions and add-ons and much more into one rich media, interactive application.

Partners can use the SI Toolkit to aid in presales and consultative engagement. It’s available now for partners to download here.

Due to the sensitive nature of some of the content, a password is required to enable access and download the toolkit which can be requested via the download site.

We’re very interested to hear what you think of the SI Toolkit – do you find it useful? What should be changed/ improved? Send your feedback to uksipma@microsoft.com or directly to me.

Upcoming Project developer-related Webcasts and available On-Demand training

tara — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:31:55 GMT

Attention all EPM partners! There are some great developer-targeted webcasts coming soon. We also have some fantastic on-demand content, including a recording of the EPM University training. Details below.

Upcoming Project Webcasts

Reporting (BI and Data Analysis)

Date	Name	Description	Presenters	Registration
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)	Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) 2007 Report Pack II - The top reports	The “Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) 2007 Report Pack II - The top reports” provides rich reports for common information needs. The EPM 2007 Report Pack II is a collection of 12 Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports designed for various user groups of the EPM solution. In this webcast, we provide an overview and demonstration of the EPM 2007 Report Pack. We discuss the different usage scenarios the reports are tailored to fit and review the components used to move, store, and render the reports. With this information, you should have a better understanding of how to use the EPM 2007 Report Pack II to provide business value for your organization.	Bulent Guzel and T.R. Sloan - Microsoft Corporation	link

Real World Solutions

This upcoming Webcast series is unique – it just does not talk about particular feature for the sake of describing it, but it introduces a particular customer scenario and discusses a way to address customer need by extending Project Server by development project... Every Webcast will be accompanied by an extensive MSDN article with code samples! Very exciting! Delivered and presented by Microsoft Project MVP - Stephen C. Sanderlin from MSProjectExperts!

Month	Name	Scenario	Description	Presenter
September 2009	Importing Workspace Data into Project Server Custom Fields	A client has requested a Project Centre view that displays the number of active issues for each project. This is not possible out of the box.	Discusses a method of importing data from Project Workspaces (PWS) into a Project-level custom field	Stephen C. Sanderlin, MSProjectExperts
November 2009	Leveraging Project Server Security within SQL Reporting Services Reports	A client has requested a SQL Reporting Services report that displays sensitive financial data. However, they only want executors of the report to see information on projects to which they have access.	Discusses a method of leveraging Project Server security in SRS Reports	Stephen C. Sanderlin, MSProjectExperts
February 2010	Filter Resource and Project data based on Custom Fields	You are creating a custom Windows application for a client that extracts and displays Project and Resource information. Because the PSI provides no way to filter these entities prior to retrieval from the PSI, you must retrieve all of the projects or resources in order to filter them by Custom Field value. Because this client has some international users on slow WAN links, you must minimize the payload sent to the user by the PSI call.	Discusses a method of extending the PSI to enable the filtering of Resources or Projects by Custom Field values	Stephen C. Sanderlin, MSProjectExperts
April 2010	Exporting Project Server Data to CSV	A client would like to export data from Project Server into a legacy Line of Business system. This system only accepts data in a CSV format.	Discusses a method of exporting Project Server data into CSV files	Stephen C. Sanderlin, MSProjectExperts

*Registration URLs will be announced on the Project Developer Portal and the Project_programmability blog.

On Demand EPM University Training

Remember the EPM University and the wonderful Developer course? It’s available as an on demand recording free of charge right here!

Other Resources

· Project Developer Portal on MSDN

· Project_programmability blog

· Upcoming Project Conference http://www.msprojectconference.com/

· Questions or feedback on Project Developer-related content? mailto:epmdev@microsoft.com

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP2 is finally here!

tara — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:59:21 GMT

Taken from Christophe Fiessinger’s blog:

We are happy to announce the release Project Portfolio Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)!

Before you install this service pack it is essential that you read the following two knowledge base articles, and thoroughly read the guidance and test out the patch in a separate environment prior to a production rollout.

Project Portfolio Server Service Pack 2 (SP2) Links
Description of Project Portfolio Server 2007 Service Pack 2		http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971205
Issues that are fixed in Project Portfolio Server 2007 Service Pack 2		http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971363
How to deploy Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP2		http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8977C122-A64F-4C4E-A78B-0EA8E150FE3A
Project Portfolio Server 2007 Service Pack 2 download page		http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3adc87b0-d060-405e-b967-22676bca71f1&displaylang=en

Highlight of Portfolio Server 2007 SP2:

· contains significant security improvements, stability improvements, and performance improvements

· support for SQL Server 2008 32-bit (please note SQL 2008 64-bit is NOT supported)

· support for Portfolio Server on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

· contains all previously released fixes into one update

Project Management for Microsoft SI Partners - Timesheets

tara — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:18:43 GMT

As many Microsoft partners (particularly SI partners) organise their customer engagements into short to medium term projects, they may benefit from some of the capabilities provided by the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution. The purpose of this series of blog posts is to highlight a few key functionality areas of the EPM solution, and demonstrate how using Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 may help SI partners organise their own projects more effectively. This ultimately leads to greater ability to complete more projects within required timescales and budgets, allowing the partner to complete more successful customer engagements.

Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified partners can make use of their Internal-Use Licence allocation (use this reference on the Partner Portal to check how many server, CAL and client product licences you are entitled to) to deploy the EPM solution (Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007).

If you would like any more information or advice on how Microsoft partners could use the EPM solution internally, please feel free to email me.

This third video shows how the timesheet functionality within the EPM solution can be used to allow team members to report the time they have spent on a customer engagement, removing some of the administration for project managers. As well as recording time spent on customer engagement tasks, team members can also submit 'Administrative time' requests, for example when they have been off sick or have booked vacation time.

Project Management for Microsoft SI Partners - Project Workspaces

tara — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:13:56 GMT

If you would like any more information or advice on how Microsoft partners could use the EPM solution internally, please feel free to email me.

This second video shows how Project Workspaces can be used to provide a SharePoint team site for everyone working on a particular customer engagement. The Project Workspace acts as a specific location for team members to communicate, share documents, highlight any issues or risks with this customer engagement The Project Workspace can be automatically created by Project Server, including granting all team members permissions to access and contribute, and can be configured, customised and pre-populated with documents as required.

Project Management for Microsoft SI Partners - Resource Allocation and Visibility

tara — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:02:48 GMT

If you would like any more information or advice on how Microsoft partners could use the EPM solution internally, please feel free to email me.

This first video shows how the EPM solution can be used to store a central resource pool of employees. By combining this with saving project plans in one central location on Project Server, a partner could have visibility over resource allocation throughout the organisation. This allows the partner to make informed resource allocation decisions, whilst having visibility into allocation demand from other projects. The EPM solution combined with SharePoint also enables visual reporting of resource allocation and capacity over the entire organisation.

(Lots and lots of) Recently Published EPM Content

tara — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:17:04 GMT

Thanks to Christophe Fiessinger (Senior Technical Project Manager for EPM) for compiling a list of all the EPM content published since December 2008, separated out by audience. There's an awful lot of content available - have a quick look through and see if any is relevant to your EPM development.

Office Online

The following have been published the Productivity content for Project 2007 (subscribe to this RSS feed):

Set working times, vacations, and holidays for your project

Goal: Control project risks

Share work on an enterprise project

Create WBS codes

Demo: Add, hide, and show columns in Project

Goal: Adjust costs to keep the project on budget

Indicators fields

Use the Project Guide to start a new project

How calendars work in Project 2007

Goal: Review final project information

Goal: Identify new risks

New Content (subscribe to this RSS feed)

· Video demo: Using SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services with the Project Server 2007 Cube Building Service This two-part video demonstration walks through the steps necessary to configure the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 cube building services for use with SQL Server Analysis Services 2005.

· Walkthrough: Deploy Project Server 2007 to a server farm environment This article contains a white paper and a four-part video series which provide a walkthrough of a typical Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 deployment. The white paper contains step-by-step instructions for each step necessary to successfully deploy Office Project Server 2007. The video series mirrors the steps described in the white paper.

· The Challenges of Selecting Enterprise Software This is the latest article by Chris Vandersluis in the “From the Trenches” column on the Project Server 2007 TechCenter.

· Virtualizing Project Server 2007 This chapter includes six topics that explain hyper-v architecture and best practices for planning, installing, and configuring a Project Server 2007 deployment on Hyper-V.

· Deploy Project Server 2007 Updates This article provides a general overview of the types of updates that are available to for Project Server 2007. It describes important things to know about each update types, as well as links to separate articles on each update type.

· Checklist for deploying Project Server 2007 updates This checklist provides a list of general steps required to update a Project Server 2007 farm deployment.

· Office Project Server 2007 Performance Counters This technical reference article provides a list of performance indications you can monitor in Project Server 2007.

· Inventory of SQL Server databases for a typical Project Server 2007 deployment This technical reference article provides a list of databases that are created in a Project Server 2007 and Portfolio Server 2007 deployment.

· Best Practices for Migrating to Project Server 2007 This paper provides guidance, references, and best practices to observe when migrating to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 from Project Server 2003. The audiences for this guide are business application specialists, line-of-business specialists, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who want to migrate to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and want the required planning requirements, migration steps and helpful hints obtained from previous experience.

· How to Leverage Project Server 2007 with PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring and Analytics This white paper provides an overview of the Microsoft PerformancePoint Server software and how it can be used to develop dashboards with the existing relational and analytical databases created with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. In addition to detailing some advanced techniques for creating analytically rich scorecards, it covers how to organize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other best practices.

Updated Content

· Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007) (updated) This article has been updated to provide more information about cumulative update server packages for Project Server 2007 farms deployed with Office SharePoint Server 2007. It has also been updated to describe client cumulative update dependencies required for cumulative updates including the Project Server infrastructure update.

· Manage Active Directory synchronization in Project Server 2007 (Updated) This article has been updated with information about how synchronization deadlocks occur and how to go about removing a deadlock if it occurs.

· Requirements for using SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services with the Project Server 2007 Cube Building Service (Updated) This article has been updated to refer to the Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 – December 2008. The Analysis Management Objects installed with the SQL Server 2005 Management Objects that were in earlier versions of the SQL Server 2005 Feature pack required a workaround in order for the Cube Building Service to function correctly.

· Prepare for migration to Project Server 2007 (updated) This article has been updated to describe the best practice of applying the latest update to the Project Professional 2007 client from which you run the migration tool to ensure that it has the latest updates.

Webcasts

IT Professionals

On-Demand Webcasts

· TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: Network Communication (Level 300)

· TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: Server Administration (Level 300)

· TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: Maintenance and Monitoring (Level 300)

· TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: Deployment into a SharePoint Server 2007 Intranet Farm (Level 300)

· TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: Disaster Recovery (Level 300)

Live Webcasts

· TechNet Webcast: Communication between Project Professional and Project Server - Active Cache processes and Architecture drill down (Level 300) (Level 300)

May 28, 2009, 9:30am Pacific Time

Developers

On-Demand Webcasts

· MSDN Webcast: Project Server and Project Portfolio Server Advanced Customisation (Level 400)

· MSDN Webcast: Office Project Server Programmability (Part 1 of 4): Project Server 2007 Architecture for Developers (Level 400)

· MSDN Webcast: Office Project Server Programmability (Part 2 of 4): Project Server Interface Programming Overview (Level 400)

· MSDN Webcast: Office Project Server Programmability (Part 3 of 4): Review of the Project Server Interface Web Services–Part A (Level 400)

· MSDN Webcast: Office Project Server Programmability (Part 3 of 4): Review of the Project Server Interface Web Services–Part B (Level 400)

Live Webcasts

· MSDN Webcast: EPM Auditing Solution Starter Drilldown (Level 300)

May 14, 2009, 8am Pacific Time

Key Enterprise Project Management Resources

Enterprise Project Management

EPM Connect: The Business Exchange for EPM Solutions and Services
EPM University: Online, instructor-led, deep dive technical training on EPM
EPM Solution Office online EPM Home Page

Project Desktop

Easier with Project: Project Desktop Home Page
Microsoft Project on Office Online

IT Professionals

Developers

Project Developer Home Page

Microsoft Project Conference + Microsoft Project 2010 Ignite

tara — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:07:16 GMT

By now, I'm sure you have all registered for Microsoft Project Conference (Phoenix, AZ - 14th to 17th Sep 2009)! We're also inviting Microsoft partners to the Microsoft Project 2010 Ignite Airlift. This is an added value to Project Conference and is at no additional cost! This is a fantastic opportunity to get an early glimpse into what's coming in the 2010 release of the EPM solution, allowing you to start preparing for the 2010 Office launch and stay one step ahead of the competition!

See the official invitation, below:

Be one of the first off the line. Would you like to attend the Microsoft Project 2010 Ignite Airlift as an added value to the Microsoft Project Conference at no additional cost to you?

As an added value to the Project Conference registration at no additional cost to the conference ticket, you and your technical colleagues have been invited to attend the Microsoft Project 2010 Ignite Airlift which will be held on September 13-14, 2009 at the Phoenix Sheraton in Phoenix, Arizona, USA . This is a training workshop for EPM specialized partners and ISV’s who are looking for in-depth technical training on setting up the next EPM version: Project 2010.

During this two-day event, we will cover a wide variety of in-depth topics ranging from architecture, setup, deployment, migration, customisation and development. This event is targeted towards experienced EPM consultants that deploy the Microsoft EPM solution on a day-to-day basis. Content will be delivered by members of the Microsoft product group and experts from the field. The event will complement the content that will be presented at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009.

Feel free to pass this invitation on.

Recorded EPM Demo Part 7: New features in Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007

tara — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:39:50 GMT

The final part of the EPM Click Through Demo showcases some of the new features in Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, including change highlighting, multi-level undo, task driver information, visual reporting capabilities and recurring status reports.

Download this video here: http://silverlight.services.live.com/81686/Project%202007%20New%20Features/video.wmv

Recorded EPM Demo Part 6: Managing Projects Effectively

tara — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:33:07 GMT

Part 5 of the Click Through Demo focuses on how the Microsoft EPM solution can help Project Managers effectively manage their projects. This includes demonstrating how project team members can record the time spent working on project tasks by reporting task progress and by completing timesheets, and how they can submit written updates on their tasks using status reports either directly from a web browser using Project Web Access or from Microsoft Office Outlook. The Project Manager can then log onto Project Web Access to approve or reject the information submitted by project team members.

The collaboration available through Project Workspaces is also shown, as well as the ability to store project documents and to report any issues or risks that may affect the project.

The Microsoft EPM solution helps you DO THINGS RIGHT.

Download this video here: http://silverlight.services.live.com/81686/Managing%20Projects/video.wmv

Recorded EPM Demo Part 5: Planning Projects

tara — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:14:22 GMT

Part 5 of the Click Through Demo shows how the Microsoft EPM solution can be used to help Project Managers and Resource Managers plan projects. This includes looking at resource availability on Project Web Access, assigning resources to a project stored on Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.

Download this video here: http://silverlight.services.live.com/81686/Planning%20Projects/video.wmv

The Amazing Adventures of Geek Girl : epm

Project and Portfolio Management Readiness Sessions for Microsoft Partners

Project Server Report Pack 2 – Webcast today at 4pm

EPM VPC v4 available now! Upgrade today!

Project and Portfolio Management (PPM/EPM) VPC v4

Hosted Version

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Q&A:

Become a Demo Master!

Are you using the UK SI Partner Toolkit?

Upcoming Project developer-related Webcasts and available On-Demand training

Upcoming Project Webcasts

Reporting (BI and Data Analysis)

Real World Solutions

Other Resources

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP2 is finally here!

Project Management for Microsoft SI Partners - Timesheets

Project Management for Microsoft SI Partners - Project Workspaces

Project Management for Microsoft SI Partners - Resource Allocation and Visibility

(Lots and lots of) Recently Published EPM Content

Goal: Adjust costs to keep the project on budget

Indicators fields

How calendars work in Project 2007

Goal: Review final project information

Goal: Identify new risks

How your project fits into the big picture

Install updates for Microsoft Office 2007 Help

… more here

Microsoft Project Conference + Microsoft Project 2010 Ignite

Recorded EPM Demo Part 7: New features in Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007

Recorded EPM Demo Part 6: Managing Projects Effectively

Recorded EPM Demo Part 5: Planning Projects