Mar3
This is a question that’s come up multiple times with folks I’ve worked with, and is something I consider best practice. The last time someone asked me about this, I figured I’d just blog it up with screenshots and send him the URL. So Daniel, this post is for you….
For years Project has had a function which remarkably few people know about, and even fewer people use – that is the intelligen...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 3 Mar 2010 07:57.
Nov19
Here’s what’s evolved into my own personal method of documenting security for a MOPS implementation. Figured that I would throw this out and welcome any and all suggestions on how to improve this.
MOPS 2007 security can be broken out into two major chunks: functional requirements and configuration specifications:
Functional Security Requirements
Functional MOPS 2007 requirements m...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 05:18.
Nov16
Parked this one aside back in September, and just realized that it never went out. Here's a flashback to what I was thinking just a month or two ago:
Watching the Ignite presentation today on the migration path from 2007 to 2010, it just confirmed that if you’re planning a 2007 deployment right now, you should deploy it as follows:
PWA in its own site collection and content db.
Project ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 16 Nov 2009 08:26.
Sep23
For years, the PMI has teased me with mentions of a Schedule Management Plan in the PMBOK. It obviously existed, and even was listed as an input to one of the Time Management processes, but it never got called out as its own separate artifact with its own planning process. Obviously, this implied some sort of bias against the scheduler caste. Didn’t Risk, HR, Communications, Quality and Proc...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009 08:10.
Sep15
I attended a breakout session this morning regarding MOPS 2007 Timesheets and My Tasks, and didn't learn much that I didn't already know.
Timesheets are intended to be the source of information for accounting (and things of that nature) purposes. The time records you find in Timesheets may or may not completely agree with those you find in Task Updates.
Task Updates are intended to be t...
Posted by Peter Elkin on
Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009 02:22.
Sep15
One of the great benefits of attending the Project Conference is the ability to network with the larger Microsoft Project implementing community. After the reception, a group of us headed out into the quiet night of downtown Phoenix for dinner. (Peter will be posting the video of the discussion later if he can actually figure out how to use the Flip.)
We ended up chatting with Vadim Bogdanov...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009 08:48.
Sep13
This is not news, but it was a small slap to the medula in terms of remembering it.
The best practice for MOPS 2007 in terms of SQL is this: MOPS can share a SQL Server (or a cluster) with a lot of other applications. But, and this is important, you should put MOPS in it’s own SQL instance.
Why, you ask.
MOPS is churning through calculations all the time. The sever-side scheduling engine is ...
Posted by Peter Elkin on
Sunday, 13 Sep 2009 02:49.
Sep12
Hello, and welcome to the Catapult EPM Team's wall-to-wall blogging coverage of the 2009 Microsoft Project Conference, live (or nearly so) from lovely, and warm, downtown Phoenix Arizona.
Your correspondents for this week's shindig are:
Andrew Lavinsky - Managing Consultant from our Houston office
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Peter Elkin - our EP...
Posted by Peter Elkin on
Saturday, 12 Sep 2009 12:55.
Sep11
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Friday, 11 Sep 2009 08:23.
Sep8
Like many Project Server folks, I have been heavily using the Playbooks tool to move settings hither and thither in multiple Project Server environments. A couple scenarios where I might use the tool would be:
1) Restore system settings to a VPC for security testing, planning, or just to help develop screenshots for documentation.
2) Move system settings from Production to Training.
3) R...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 06:38.