Project 2010 Bible

Chapter 22. Project Server and the Project Manager

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Connecting to Project Server

• Creating a Web-based project

• Working with Web-based projects

• Assigning resources

• Tracking progress

Project Server offers a wide variety of tools to help project managers shepherd their projects to completion more effectively. In this chapter, you learn how to connect to Project Server, create a Web-based project, use the Enterprise Resource Pool to assign resources to your project, track project progress, and update workflows while managing projects.

Note

In the chapter, I used sample data provided by Microsoft for a fictitious company called Contoso. This sample data appears in a virtual machine hosted for me by Project Hosts, a company that provides on-demand Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM), CRM, and SharePoint Server (MOSS). You can read about Project Hosts at www.projecthosts.com.

To use a desktop client version of Project and Project Server, you must be using Project Professional; if you are using Project Standard, you can't use Project Server and Project Web App.

Note

In earlier versions of Project Server, Project Web App was called Project Web Access. Because you can customize the appearance of Project Web App (and because Project Server 2010 was under construction at the time I wrote this chapter), the figures in this chapter might not match exactly what you see in your own installation of Project Server. For example, the screens still show Project Web Access.

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