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Instructor David Blair

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Highlights

  • Unified project and portfolio management – Familiar SharePoint UI and a common data store make Project Server 2010 easy to use. A comprehensive API enables you to customize and extend both project and portfolio capabilities.
  • Demand management simplified – Select the right project portfolios and maximize resource utilization—effectively prioritizing projects from multiple dimensions.
  • Effective use of resources – Easily build schedules online and conveniently make project edits from anywhere.
  • Flexible Web-based Project editing – Capture all work from simple tasks to complex projects in a centralized repository. Develop and deploy effective governance workflows to drive accountability and capture project information, cost and resource estimates, and other valuable project data.
  • More powerful dashboards and reports – Gain transparency and control with the Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform: Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, Visio Services, PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and SQL Reporting Services are all at your fingertips. Customize reports in a familiar Excel editor and create powerful dashboards to effectively monitor and share portfolio performance.

Course Summary

“Project Server 2010 Administration and Configuration Essentials” in support of MCTS Certification (Exam 70-177)

Learn what you need to know when installing, configuring, and maintaining a Project Server 2010 implementation with this video-based, on-demand training course from Project Management Practice, Inc. and Keystone Learning Systems.

This course will walk you through the pre and post installation steps for Project Server 2010 along with migration options from previous versions; explain the concepts and purpose of configuring the Enterprise Project Management environment for user security, metadata standards, time reporting, and Business Intelligence; and show the functions and tools for administering and monitoring ongoing Project Server 2010 health.

Microsoft Project Server 2010, built on SharePoint Server 2010, delivers flexible work management solutions. The innovative new capabilities in Project Server 2010 lead to improved productivity and better business performance. In Project 2010, the best-of-breed portfolio management techniques of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 are included in Project Server 2010, providing a single server with end-to-end project and portfolio management (PPM) capabilities. Project Server 2010 is built on top of SharePoint Server 2010, bringing together the powerful business collaboration platform services and structured execution capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions. Gain additional value from the Microsoft platform. Project Server 2010 provides a new demand management module to capture all work from simple tasks to complex projects and programs. Project Server 2010 helps organizations select project portfolios that align with their business strategy by providing techniques to prioritize competing requests, run optimization scenarios under varying budgetary constraints and maximize resource utilization across the planning horizon. Project Server 2010 brings the power of Project Professional 2010 to the browser with Web-based Project Editing. Microsoft Project 2010 delivers a consistent experience across Project Standard 2010, Project Professional 2010 and Project Server 2010 through the Fluent user interface.

Experience the strength and depth of Microsoft Business Intelligence platform. Gain transparency and control with Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, Visio Services, PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and SQL Reporting Services. Integration with related Microsoft technologies provides a familiar and connected work management platform. Empower teams to work in their preferred productivity tools and provide status updates to project stakeholders with minimal effort and administrative overhead.

Developed in partnership with Project Management Practice

Instructor

David Blair

MCP, MCTS, PMPi

David Blair, MCP, MCTS, is a Senior Associate with the Project Management Practice, Inc. David has been involved at every level of design and development of project management software products for over 18 years. Working as a lead consultant, David has implemented and provided practical administrative and end user training for tools that support effective enterprise project management processes, utilizing Microsoft Project Server 2003 and 2007 for a variety of organizations around the world. Most recently, David has been certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Technical Specialist (MCTS) in Microsoft Project and Project Server 2007.

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