Month: October 2014

Reasons to Upgrade to Microsoft PPM 2013 That you May Not have Known

Posted on by Juan Rangel

If your using a Project Server 2010 solution and are restricting the ability to ‘Set a Baseline’ to a particular ‘Group’ of people, you may have noticed that Project Mangers that don’t have permissions to ‘Save a Protected Basline’  you will find that they are able to update attributes found in the ‘Baseline’ table (or they can insert these baseline values Read more about Reasons to Upgrade to Microsoft PPM 2013 That you May Not have Known[…]

Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013 Tutorial

Posted on by Sinem Tepe

Some people learn by reading and others by seeing, so here is a video tutuorial of my last blog on how to create project templates in Microsoft Project 2013: Thanks for watching! Please feel free to leave comments below or check out our other blogs on Microsoft Project, Project Server, SharePoint and Project Management Methodology. Read more about Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013 Tutorial[…]

Difference Between Managing Projects with Microsoft Professional and Project Standard

Posted on by Debbie Perez

MS Project Professional Vs MS Project Standard Did you know that are a lot of difference between MS Project Professional and MS Project Standard?  There are a few that make a lot of difference in how you may manage your project.  For example, resources: Inactivate Resources Standard – can be not viewed Professional – displayed Read more about Difference Between Managing Projects with Microsoft Professional and Project Standard[…]

Hello World SharePoint 2013 Application Page

Posted on by Karam Mohammed

This blog will help you create your first SharePoint Application page as quickly as possible with the least amount of effort. The prerequisites for creating a basic SharePoint Application Page will be: A computer with SharePoint 2013 installed on it. Visual Studio Professional or an edition of Visual Studio Ultimate or Visual Studio Premium. Office Developer Read more about Hello World SharePoint 2013 Application Page[…]

Microsoft MVP, Dale Howard, Joins EPMA as Director of Training

Posted on by Michael Samadi

EPMA, one of the nation’s most innovative and leading Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) consulting firms, announced today their newest team member, Dale Howard, as Director of Training. Mr. Howard is coming to EPMA holding numerous awards, including the most prestigious Microsoft award, Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), where he proved to be one of Read more about Microsoft MVP, Dale Howard, Joins EPMA as Director of Training[…]

Creating a default Template location in Microsoft Project 2013

Posted on by Sinem Tepe

You will notice that in Microsoft Project 2013 out of the box there is no Personal template folder.  If you want to use this feature you need to specify a default location for your templates to be stored.  In previous versions project files would have been stored in the templates folder associated with the Project Read more about Creating a default Template location in Microsoft Project 2013[…]

Creating A View In Microsoft Project

Posted on by Debbie Perez

If you would like to learn how to create views in Microsoft Project please check out this video: These are the steps you should take to create the view (for more instructions you need to watch the video) but these should help. Thanks for watching! Stay tuned for the video on how to use the Read more about Creating A View In Microsoft Project[…]

Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013

Posted on by Karam Mohammed

A Project Template is an important artifact that projects should create during their closing phase. Project Templates help in quicker planning of other similar future projects which otherwise would have to be started from scratch. Creating templates save a lot of planning time as it helps the project to know the rough estimate of project Read more about Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013[…]