PPM Works is Enjoying the Project Conference Day 2
As Day 2 sessions come to a close – over 1,200 attendees are heading off to the Evening Event sponsored by our hosting partner Project Hosts.
Here are some highlights for Day 1 and 2 at the Project Conference #ProjCon
Day 1: Keynotes and announcements
– Microsoft announced Project Lite will be offered in May 2014 for PWA users – this exciting offer will allow TMs to access PWA for only $7/per user/month. This is great news.
– Project Online can access SQL Server Reporting Services to provide valuable reporting. This is BIG news.
– Session Highlights: Yammer to Manage Social Communication – Good Session by Christophe and Andrew
Day 2: Started with a FunRun and the into the great sessions
Highlights include detailed steps and best practices on Technical Worse Practices
DB Main (Everything is slow)
Index Fragmentation
Inserting new random data tends to lead to split index pages GUIDs in 2013 are all the same format
Async pleaseRead the Manual
Custom Fields
No more than 5 task level formulae CFs but all additional CFs will slow things downHelp Microsoft to help us
Un-publishing tasks
Best Practices for submitting and reporting on actual work (Project Server 2010)
Patching – Control the client versions with Project Server
Note – 2013 Schedule Web Part is controlled by the Server Version
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