Posts from:Enterprise Project Management, Microsoft Project, PowerBI
PowerBI – New Business Intelligence Services from EPM Strategy
BY: Collin Quiring As you see elsewhere on the website, EPM Strategy is a company dedicated to our customers’ usage of Project Management – concentrating on Microsoft Project. One of the key aspects of Project Management that is often overlooked... (more...)
Project Online – Give your suggestions!
BY: Collin Quiring Have you ever wanted to give Microsoft some direct feedback or agree/disagree with others that are giving Microsoft feedback about Project Online? Well, there is a site for that now! The site is here: https://microsoftproject.uservoice.com/forums/218133-o365-project-portfolio-management... (more...)
Project Online and Calendars
BY: Collin Quiring There is a Calendar bug right now with Project Online. We have multiple tenants with this problem and Bing and Google searches have shown us that others are having this issue as well. The frustrating part for us is that it isn’t... (more...)
Hiding unused Language Folders for Reports
BY: Collin Quiring This has been updated: https://epmstrategy.com/hide-unused-language-folders/ In Microsoft Project Server, and particularly in Project Online, you can have multiple languages used by the system. This is great functionality but you... (more...)
MPUG Halloween Stories
Some fun Project Management “horror” stories: http://www.mpug.com/articles/tales-from-the-trenches-of-project-management/ Read More →
Report not Displaying All the Available Data
BY: Collin Quiring Just a quick note and reminder about getting the reports to display everything you think that they should be displaying. The problem we encountered was when we were trying to see a report in Project Professional 2013 that we... (more...)
IN PWA – Remove a Constraint Date
BY: Collin Quiring We were doing some training when Michelle had a great question for me that I hadn’t encountered before. She tried to remove a constraint date from a task while in PWA. And, it wouldn’t let her. I have previously written about... (more...)
Project Server and _All Publishes Failed
BY: Collin Quiring This is an intriguing error that we encountered in Project Server 2013. After approving a task update in Project Web App Approvals page and then using the History – Status Updates to publish the schedule from PWA. And, we encountered... (more...)
Microsoft Project and Earned Value and TCPI – 4294967295
BY: Collin Quiring Just a quick note on an “error” within Microsoft Project where the value is “4294967295” in the TCPI field. This is actually the numerical equivalent of “NA”. Sometimes this is used in formulas to find when a field is... (more...)
What is that Red X and Green Check mark?
BY: Collin Quiring The Entry Bar in Microsoft Project is a place where you can type or edit the Task Name. But, next to that Entry Bar is a little box with a Red X and a Green Checkmark in it. (Sometimes they are grayed out.) What does that... (more...)