Project and Project Server August 2016 Public Updates
Thanks Suzanne for preparing and posting the Project Server Public Update post again this month – which you can all find at Project Server 2013 and 2016 August 2016 PU. No 2010 updates this month, so...
View ArticleProject Server or Project Online: Please don’t use PROJ_UID as a TASK_UID
When creating Projects using PWA or Project Professional each task, and assignment will get a fresh GUID – which is unique. Usually if using CSOM then new GUIDs would also be generated for each new...
View ArticlePPM User Voice and Team Assignments–we heard you!
A reminder about the User Voice site for Office 365 Project & Portfolio Management – and one of the recent feedback items that has moved to “Started” –...
View ArticleProject Online: How do I find who is using Project Online?
Chris Boyd recently responded to the User Voice thread around the “Last Connect” column no longer shown in Project Online topic with a suggestion on how one might replace this functionality using other...
View ArticleProject and Project Server September 2016 Updates Released
I just posted the latest release information for on-premises Project and Project Server – both 2013 and 2016 – and even 1 fix for Project 2010! Take a look over on the Project Support blog at...
View ArticleProject Online non-EXO notifications and October 2016 client updates
I often find that Friday is a great time to catch up on a few things – and often that means preparing and posting a blog when almost everyone else has finished for the weekend, or in Hawaii, American...
View ArticleProject and Project Server October Updates released
Thanks Suzanne for getting the update post out this week. The client updates were delayed from 1st to 2nd Tuesday – but all Project and Project Server updates now live – see...
View ArticleProject and Project Server November 2016 Updates released
Thanks Suzanne for posting the November Public Updates blog for Project and Project Server 2010, 2013 and 2016 –...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams and Microsoft Planner–what to expect
With the release of Microsoft Teams there is a new experience with Microsoft Planner – plans are one of the items that can be added within a team – and you can add multiple plans! There are a few...
View ArticleProject Online: How to handle the sku changes?
In August 2016 we announced some changes to the Project Online plans –...
View ArticleMicrosoft Planner: How to clone a Plan with Graph
(This is the zip file of the PowerShell script – plannercloneblog) One common request we already have in the roadmap for Microsoft Planner is to support templates – but this will be a few months yet....
View ArticleProject and Project Server February 2017 Updates Released
Earlier this week saw the delayed release of the February 2017 Public Update (PU) for Project Server 2013 and 2016. Client updates were released February 7th as planned and server updates on February...
View ArticleMicrosoft Planner: Now you can recover deleted Plans and Groups
A big announcement yesterday and this is something our customers have really been waiting for – the ability to recover deleted Groups, and with them any other deleted group related content that was...
View ArticleA different kind of post–thanks Kate!
I don’t usually post non-technical stuff here – but today one of my long-time colleagues has her last day at Microsoft. After 22 years Kate Simpson has decided to retire and we will certainly miss...
View ArticlePlanner: Group control–new PowerShell commands
Since posting my blogs that covered control of Group creation using PowerShell as a means of setting who can and cannot create Plans (which create Groups) there has been a new release of the Azure AD...
View ArticlePlanner: Cloning a Plan with multiple assignments
I updated my previous posting with a rough re-write of my cloning PowerShell – but I have completed a complete re-write that handles the objects in PowerShell much better (thanks for the feedback and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Planner: Why can’t I add favorites or comment?
This has been a hot topic for support cases since Microsoft Planner first launched – so why are there cases where you are not able to comment or add a favorite plan? There can be several reasons, and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Planner: Considerations for Reporting–Part 1
I was very fortunate recently to get the chance to present at Microsoft Ready, an internal worldwide training event held for the first time in Las Vegas – after running for many years in Seattle. My...
View ArticleMicrosoft Planner: Considerations for Reporting–Part 2
A little longer getting to this than I’d hoped – but some of that time (as well as the day job) was spent doing a better job of what will be part 3 – so looking forward to writing that up! For Part 2...
View ArticleMicrosoft Planner: Considerations for Reporting-Part 3
For the third and final part of this short series on reporting against Planner data I will be taking some of the ideas from Part 1 and Part 2 and putting more process around them. This is still really...
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