This is another posting from our BI presentations last week in Houston and Dallas. This is the first part of creating a dynamic Visio report, with the second part coming out later this week. For that post, I plan to tackle the question of creating a dynamic Visio timeline linked to project data. In the…
Thanks to everyone for turning out to the Project Server 2010 BI Reporting presentations we did this week at the Microsoft offices in Dallas and Houston. As per request, I am posting the slide deck of the Houston delivery (which has only several minor modifications from the Dallas version): PDF Version If you’d like to…
From the RedMonk Blog comes the the Operations Unconference, OpsCamp, in Austin on 1/30. …where attendees propose, discuss and debate issues related to operations and monitoring. Proposed topics include Automation, Monitoring, Configuration Management, Cloud Technologies, Agile Infrastructure, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, ITSM/BSM or Visible Ops. http://www.opscamp.org/austin/2010-01-30 Seeing as Enterprise Project Management often is implemented hand…
Saw this on Clarke Ching’s blog, and yep, it’s true. Tony Rizzo is giving away copies of their single project Critical Chain add-in to MS Project: http://www.pdinstitute.com/AllFramePages/FP_Critical_Chain_Software.html Get ‘em while they’re hot. Note that as far as I can tell, the requirement is that you install the 30 day trial version of the multi-project add-in…
What’s new in WSUS Sp2? Support for patching 2008 R2, Windows 7 and BranchCache. However, there is one new feature that you should pay very close attention to. The Auto-approval rules now include the ability to specify an approval deadline date and time. If you set this, you will override any settings in group policy.…
One of the top client requests I often see is document automation. Many clients have bits and pieces of reusable content that they wish to automatically populate into PowerPoint or Word documents. Ira Brown of Project Widgets did an impressive webinar the other day on using macros to automatically move data from MPP files to…
This seemed topical (from Matt McDermott’s blog). Austin SharePoint User Group: Insights Sid Atkinson, Sr. Lead Consultant, Catapult Systems, will provide an overview of the great new Business Intelligence features of SharePoint 2010. This session will cover the Insights Business Intelligence platform in SharePoint 2010. Microsoft made a significant investment in BI and has made…
Sid Atkinson, Sr. Lead Consultant, Catapult Systems, will provide an overview of the great new Business Intelligence features of SharePoint 2010. This session will cover the Insights Business Intelligence platform in SharePoint 2010. Microsoft made a significant investment in BI and has made available a broad range of tools and applications to service reporting and…
It would seem to be BI Week in the Project Server blogosphere (see here and here, with an excellent recorded webinar on the topic by Marc Soester here). I guess that’s kind of like Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, but thankfully without the blood and rotting fish. Seeing as I have been spending a…
I’ve been buried under Project 2010 for a couple of weeks, only surfacing to get dragged back to Central Ohio for a wintry vacation and a series of random minor but annoying illnesses. Figured it was about time to get back into the blogging saddle (cue the flinch and sudden flashback to Central Asian saddles…
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