• Add AD group to all PWA project sites with Read Only permission using PowerShell

    My customer wanted to be able to provide his Portfolio Managers with read only access to all project sites in PWA. Because an AD group for Portfolio Managers already exists, we can use that AD group in the script and add it to all project sites under...
  • Slow Performance for Reporting (Publish) Jobs

    We had a scenario where five particular Project Schedules were taking 8 minutes to finish publishing to the Reporting DB, but the Draft and Published database jobs were finishing in less than a minute. All other 200 schedules in the system would publish...
  • Baselining Best Practices

    Cross posted from http://blogs.technet.com/b/brookswhite/archive/2014/08/04/baselining-best-practices.aspx. The following MPUG article by Kenneth Steiness is a good introduction to the basics of baselining. A baseline is a snapshot of your project...
  • Community Updates - August 2014

    Hello, Microsoft PPM Community. This is our first blog post about what is happening in the Microsoft Community. I mean webcasts/webminars, PMI and MPUG chapter events and all about you need to know to stay up to date about Microsoft Project, Project...
  • Link to "SharePoint patching demystified" article by Stefan Gossner.

    This link has been making the rounds lately and I wanted to share it. SharePoint patching demystified by Stefan Gossner: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2014/08/19/sharepoint-patching-demystified.aspx Please let me know if...