Microsoft PPM 2013 Project Sites: Adding a ‘PWA Home’ link to the ‘Global Navigation’ Bar

Many of you have probably noticed that once you are on a project site in Project Server /Project Online/PPM there is no intuitive or easy way to return back to PWA; most users resort to pressing the back button until they return to PWA. That approach works if you haven’t clicked around much but if Read more about Microsoft PPM 2013 Project Sites: Adding a ‘PWA Home’ link to the ‘Global Navigation’ Bar[…]

Capturing Performance Counters for SharePoint and Project Server into the Logging Database (Part 1)

Capturing Performance Counters One of the best practices when working with Windows Servers, SharePoint, and Project Server is to track the performance of each server in your SharePoint farm. This will help identifying any bottlenecks and give you a better view of what is happening behind the scene. The problem with performance monitoring that is Read more about Capturing Performance Counters for SharePoint and Project Server into the Logging Database (Part 1)[…]

How to customize your Project Web App Experience

For anyone who has used Project Web App (PWA) you have probably noticed the “clunky” interface, by clunky I mean that the interface does not always do what you want it to do and is rendered depending on your browser and resolution. It’s basically not as fluid as the Microsoft Project rich client interface. Being Read more about How to customize your Project Web App Experience[…]

Project Server 2010-Approval Center-Status Update History-Blank Actual Work Column

Wow! That’s a long title! Well, I could not find a simpler phrase, sorry! Anyway, for those of you who have not read their RSS feeds yet, the October 2010 Cumulative Update for Project Server has been released. More information here. However, one of the updates caught my eye, as I remember one of my Read more about Project Server 2010-Approval Center-Status Update History-Blank Actual Work Column[…]

Grouping Titles Does Not Show in a View

Yesterday a client emailed me with a snapshot of his view and said, he just created this Task – level PWA view and included Grouping in it, but when he goes to the PWA view, he sees the task being grouped together except, there are no group titles being displayed. I have created a test Read more about Grouping Titles Does Not Show in a View[…]