Project Online: Software Boundaries and Limits

Project Online: Software Boundaries and Limits Repost from Microsoft, see the complete Microsoft article. Sometimes folks are nervous about going to something new and while Project Online is not new it may be new for some people that are not used to a robust Project and Portfolio [...]

Choose Your Project Online Timephased Data Rollup Setting

Choose Your Project Online Timephased Data Rollup Setting Starting in September, Project Online will have a new setting that allows you to choose your level of Timephased Data Rollup. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Configure-rollup-of-timephased-reporting-data-in-Project-Online-da8487fe-899e-4510-a264-e2ebc948928c Why the Change? Recording timephased data slows down publishing. Organizations that are not reporting timephased data can [...]

Templates Can Be Set to Calculate Resource Utilization from Engagements

Templates Can Be Set to Calculate Resource Utilization from Engagements   The training team at PPM Works understands that when creating Resource Engagements it can be difficult for Project Managers to remember to change the utilization setting in Project Professional 2016. Creating and submitting the Engagements is [...]

Reducing the Maximum Units for Enterprise Resources

Reducing the Maximum Units for Enterprise Resources PPM Works has a customer that asked how to lock down the Maximum Units for resources so that Project Managers could not assign them to tasks at a higher percentage. In training I am always advising Project Managers to reduce [...]

Microsoft Has Identified a Bug in the May 2017 CU for Project Server

Microsoft Has Identified a Bug in the May 2017 CU for Project Server PPM Works has identified a bug in the May 2017 CU. We have noticed after recent security updates that Project Center views were blank for select users. Not all users were impacted. The issue [...]