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| April 15, 2009 | Keeping Users of Microsoft® Office Project Connected. |
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Note to Members! Is your company expanding its team of project and portfolio managers? Hire the best! Send a link to the job opening on your company's website to kvantine@mpug.com and we'll include it in the exclusive MPUG Career Center and promote it in an upcoming issue of the newsletter! MPUG WebNLearns Apr 24, 2009 Tips and Tricks from Gary Chefetz May 7, 2009 Visual Reports Unleashed May 20, 2009 Microsoft Project for the Advanced User MPUG Chapter Meetings Apr 16, 2009 Connecticut Apr 17, 2009 Twin Cities Apr 21, 2009 Atlanta Apr 21, 2009 Puget Sound Apr 28, 2009 London Apr 30, 2009 Sydney Apr 30, 2009 Manchester Apr 30, 2009 San Francisco May 5, 2009 Melbourne May 5, 2009 Central Indiana May 12, 2009 Chicago May 13, 2009 St. Louis May 15, 2009 Twin Cities May 19, 2009 Atlanta Jun 3, 2009 Connecticut Jun 8, 2009 Atlanta Jun 10, 2009 St. Louis Jun 18, 2009 New York City Sponsored Events Apr 29, 2009 Views, Filters, Groups, and Fields May 27, 2009 Custom Toolbars and Screens Sep 14, 2009 Microsoft Project Conference 2009 For Officers Only Chapter Leader Webcast rescheduled! Apr 28, 2009, 10 a.m. EDT. On the agenda:
New in the Knowledge Base Archived webinar: Advanced Project Professional 2007 Tips & Tricks Training Archived webinar: Building SharePoint Dashboards Document: Preparing for Exams 70-632 and 70-633 To access these WebNLearn recordings, log in with your member name and choose Knowledge Library from the home page menu. Jobs Project Manager, Allstate, Northbrook, IL Project Manager, Community Development, City of Chicago, Chicago, IL Microsoft Project Schedule Analyst, DEI Services, Orlando/Winter Park, FL Project Manager, Medco Health Solutions, Blue Bell, PA or Franklin Lakes, NJ Franchise Project Manager, Johnson & Johnson, Skillman, NJ Project Manager, ConAgra Foods, Omaha, NE Log in with your MPUG membership to gain access to the Career Center. MPUG Resources MPUG Home Join MPUG Microsoft Office Project 2007 site MPUG 1143 Northern Blvd., #315 Clarks Summit, PA 18411 |
 Migrating to Microsoft Project Server 2007:Lessons from the Field By Victor A. Richardson, PMP, MCSD, MCITP So you've been working with Project Server 2003 for ages, and now you're finally moving to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 (MOPS). With a bit of prior proper planning, the migration to MOPS 2007 needn't be difficult at all -- and this article can help...
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Ask the Expert: Tips for Getting Project Server Buy-in from UsersBy Ellen Lehnert, PMP, MCT, MCITP Julie C. of Boston, MA asks: What can I do to encourage the project managers to be more involved in using Project Server? Answer: You have run into the cultural impact of using Project Server. Here are a few tips that will help you increase the user buy-in you'll need to ensure success with that new installation... Featured Event: Apr 30 San Francisco: Quality Verification of Schedules, Plus Version Control and Project Server Aviva Carmen presents "Quality Verification of your Project Schedules.” In this session you'll learn what you should look for when trying to determine and improve the quality of your project schedule. Is there a checklist you can use? How do you make sure your project schedule is reflective of today’s current reality on your project?
Mark Read will present "Version Control and Project Server: More Options." A deft handling of the many baseline and version options included in Project Server 2007 can provide a robust look at all of your projects.
 Chapter Spotlight: 3 Questions with Baltimore-Washington Metro's Gerald Leonard
As is the case with many project managers, Gerald Leonard, a leader for the Baltimore-Washington Metro chapter of MPUG, followed a circuitous path to project management. Here he shares his background in music and ministry and answers three questions...
MPUF Discussions "A user opened a Project 2003 file using Project 2007 and inserted tasks after line 8 numbered 61-67, out of sequence... Why didn't Project renumber the IDs?..."
"I want to create an Integrated Master Schedule by inserting the individual Project files that reside on SharePoint 2007 within a Master Project File that will also reside on SharePoint 2007..." "...I would like to know if Project 2007 can lock the activity ID to not allow it to be deleted or create a unique activity ID for each activity add..." "...Is there a tool that can check for bad links between sub projects?..." To participate in this MPUG Microsoft Project Users Forum discussion, sign in at MPUG.com with your MPUG username and password, then head to MPUF here: http://www.mpug.com/membercenter/pages/mpuf.aspx |
