Have you ever wanted to hide tasks from the Gantt Chart? The following technique is useful for tidying up a schedule – for example, if you want to show only pertinent Gantt information for a presentation, or take a screenshot of a plan for a client that Read More...
A useful little nugget about Microsoft Project that came in handy the other day is showing or hiding items from your Gantt chart. It’s as simple as this: In Microsoft Project right-click in the Gantt Chart and select “Gridlines”: To show, for example Read More...
Inactivate task is a new feature for EPM2010; this feature enables the project manager to set certain tasks to inactive rather than deleting the tasks. This functionality is also useful for performing what-if analysis. The following paragraph from Microsoft Read More...
I recently had an issue at a client where the Project Center was failing to load and returning “An unknown error has occurred” on the page. We have seen this behaviour before and it’s usually some corrupt Project data that causes it Read More...
Quite often there is a request for audit information from Project Server but unfortunately there is nothing available out of the box. This post covers a very high-level solution to this using the Project Server PSI and PowerShell. Most actions in Project Read More...
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on 03-09-2012
Filed under: Project Server 2010, Project Server 2007, EPM, PS2010, Project Server, Project 2010, PS2007, Project 2007
Following on from my previous post Customising the Project Professional install, this post looks at slipstreaming the Project Professional 2010 updates into the Project install media. This simplifies the install as there is just one install file to run Read More...
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on 08-02-2011
Filed under: Work, Project Server 2010, Project Server 2007, PS2010, Project 2010, PS2007, MSOffice, Project 2007
I recently looked into accessing the Project Server PSI via PowerShell, luckily I came across this MSDN article that helped: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg607685.aspx#pj14_GettingStartedTa_PowerShell. I needed to get the data into a pipe delimited Read More...