This is part three of a series on optimizing drilling schedules in Microsoft Office Project Server 2010 and surfacing the data in a Visio map. In this case again, I owe credit to Visio guru, David Parker, for a couple of tips in a blog post on how to get maps out of Bing –…
Microsoft provides a tool which provides functionality which may meet the requirements called the effective configuration viewer (available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a9db4dca-6716-478d-89b9-42f27ebc76a8&DisplayLang=en). The best discussion on this topic is available at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/operationsmanagermgmtpacks/thread/74896e46-4a0b-4953-aaea-8c24ee1af975 which discusses a way to find what monitors generate alerts, and what alerts generate write actions (or mentions maybe you can query the database). Jeremy…
I’m a geek – and I get it. It’s not reasonable to expect that people will carry with books on a regular basis. As a consultant we are on different client sites on a regular basis and it’s really difficult to lug around one (or more) technical books. To hear that “see page 601 of…
During a Q&A session at MMS 2010 there was a question raised related to Distributed Applications (DA’s) and limits within the user interface. During my initial tests I had seen some strange results and I wanted to map out what I saw so that they can be avoided when developing DA’s. As a starting point,…
First Cinco de Mayo, then the 2010 Event. May just keeps on giving. Check it out on May 12th for all of the buzz around the launch of the Microsoft 2010 products. This is how our Denver office is feeling…. …and as for the Houston office….
SystemCenterCentral did an interview with several of the authors and contributors on the newly released System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 book including myself. We talked about what’s included in the book including discussions on targeting, authoring and virtualization. The podcast is available at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/65128/Default.aspx. As a side-note, it was really cool to meet with…
This is part two in our series on optimizing drilling schedules with Microsoft Project Server 2010. In our previous post, we discussed how this series is designed to be a case study in managing resource constrained projects. In this case, our goal is to optimize a rig drilling schedule across multiple oil wells and then…
Starting in IT Consulting: I started working for my first consulting company in the early 1990’s. I had just graduated from college and based upon good fortune (as well as a good friend in Rob who referred me to the company), I moved from the ranks of the unemployed into my first job as a…
When I started writing a previous post on how to map a Visio Services timeline to live Project Server data, I was looking for a relevant example of how to use Visio’s graphical representation capabilities to surface Project Server data – a topic on which I’ve already posted quite a bit. This is the actual…
A recent webinar I recorded has been posted here. Feel free to check it out for a brief overview of some of the BI opportunities in the Project Server and SharePoint 2010 stack. This is essentially a mashup of the presentation I gave at the Microsoft Houston Project Roadshow event in January of this year….with…
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