In my previous post, I gave an example of how Pairwise Analysis works, and presented a conceptual model in Excel of the driver and project prioritization engine within Microsoft Project Server 2010. That model worked well with simple driver prioritization scenarios, but seemed to display a wide variance with Project Server calculations in more complex…
Thanks to everyone in Houston for attending my three presentations yesterday. I am already envisioning a couple of ideas to pitch for next year’s conference. (How does Project Management Lessons from Genghis Khan sound to you?) Here’re a list of references that came up in discussion in the final session on MS Project 2010 changes:…
Media Bypass is a huge investment and improvement in CS “14” (Communications Server “14” – next release of OCS). So what is Media Bypass, what does it get me, and how does it work? What is it? Media Bypass allows for Communicator clients to communicate directly with a qualified PSTN voice gateway or qualified IP-PBX…
As stated in my previous post, I am no scripting guru or will I ever claim to be. My primary purpose for creating this script is to force myself to learn about PowerShell scripting. I am sure that there is a more efficient or better approach here, so please leave comments and let me know.…
Chatting with a mentor from a previous life recently as I prepped for a presentation, and he pointed me to this excellent 1986 article by Herbert Simon, the late Nobel prize winning social scientist. If you’re attending my PMI Houston presentation on Project Teams as Innovation Systems on Wednesday, then this would be a great…
Do I need to say it again? If you haven’t figured out by now, Microsoft is shifting from GUI administration to command-line administration. Not saying that all GUI administration is going away, but PowerShell is the now and is the future. With the new Microsoft wave, PowerShell is the main administration tool and even the…
Change management has been on my mind of late as I prepare for an upcoming presentation on EPM Tool deployments. Here’s a particularly relevant post from Matt May, who wrote the Elegant Solution, one of my favorite books on innovation (the other one being Berkun’s Myths). He also wrote In Pursuit of Elegance, from which…
I’ve seen a couple of questions posted to the online forums of late asking about how the Portfolio Management heuristics work in Project Server 2010. Since I know that I will have to explain this to my own clients, I figured that I would take an initial stab at demystifying how the portfolio optimization calculations…
Nice post from Ganesh on the GJ Tech Blog yesterday on adding daily timesheet comments to Project Server 2007 (and presumably 2010). Make sure to check it out: http://gj80blogtech.blogspot.com/2010/05/daily-timesheet-comment-in-project.html
This post is a continuation of my previous post: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/archive/2010/05/09/software-update-management-and-group-policy-for-configmgr-what-else.aspx. So how do the rest of the settings in the Windows Updates Group Policy section affect Software Updates in ConfigMgr? The short answer is that they don’t. These settings effectively control how the Windows Update Agent automatically handles updates. With ConfigMgr, the Windows Update…
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