Still working on documenting the instructions from the Houston MPUG event a couple of weeks ago. It’s amazing how much can be condensed into a one hour presentation. Today’s post is about formatting the Gantt chart, which is a popular topic in many of the sessions I teach. Note that this posting is meant to…
I have been using Office 2010 for about a week now and here are some first impressions of Outlook 2010. Installation The installation was a breeze. You have the option to run 2010 along side 2007 as long as you use the 32 bit version of 2010. I opted for the 64 bit version so…
Recently I logged into my RMS server and had a somewhat unpleasant surprise. While I am sure that I had done the production activation on this server I noticed in the event logs and on the properties of my system that Windows was not activated yet. I still had three days left to activate my…
Challenge: A resource on my project is scheduled to work 5 hours on one particular day. MS Project is showing them as being over allocated for that day. Isn’t 8 hours a “normal” workday? Why would the resource be over allocated? Solution: Microsoft Project reports over allocations if a resource has to work for more…
I wanted to document this interesting issue. (Well, interesting to me at least). All credit goes to Ijaz Rasheed for identifying and researching this issue. The Problem Users attempt to export their My Tasks page to Excel. Excel throws an error: Clicking “Yes” only makes things worse… The Workaround Instead of using the menu…
One of the problems that Catapult Consultants has at times is the restrictions of outbound traffic while at a client site. Most clients allow all outbound traffic from their locations but there are a few clients that only allow certain outbound traffic. This has caused problems in the past with some application that use ports…
Working with a customer recently, they had an issue using SAN attached disks during Operating System Deployment. They could successfully create and format the SAN attached disk as the D drive during the WinPE portion of the task sequence, but the disk would go offline during the Windows 2008 mini-setup. This was causing a major…
Just in time for your summer viewing pleasure Microsoft is unveiling some of the new workloads for SharePoint 2010. Head over to the newly revamped Microsoft SharePoint Product site and catch Tom Rizzo, Paul Andrew and Richard Riley as they demonstrate just a few of the new capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Each video has a…
I found this great video explaining Azure. What is Windows Azure? http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video I love the hand drawn approach to teaching. Just goes to show that the simplest teaching techniques are sometimes the most powerful. The key to his success IMO is the 5 hours he spent up front. Clear, concise and clever. Very memorable. Enjoy!
Register for our first EPM Webinar – Maximizing Your Investment in Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server 2007. This session will be held on Wednesday, July 29 at 11:00 a.m. Central. As a reminder, this is the first in a series of three EPM Webinars we will be conducting in July and August. You can…
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