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Hi,

 I am not posting here any more.  I am now posting at Msn Spaces.

My new blog site is http://spaces.msn.com/yasirbutt/

Please visit and do send your comments.

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Jerry

regular Microsoft Project plan that functions like Administrative Project

Creating a regular Microsoft Project plan that functions like the Administrative project feature in Project Server 2003?

Background Information People have reported many frustrations associated with the use of the default Administrative project feature of Project Server 2003. For example, a team member cannot hide an Administrative task on the View my tasks page, even though the task is completed or is irrelevant to that team member. Administrative projects can be helpful for capturing non-working time (such as vacation or sick leave) and non-project working time (work that is not associated with any project). Because of the issues associated with using the default Administrative project feature in Project Server 2003, however, msProjectExperts recommends that you use a regular project for the same purpose, and that you structure the regular project to work like an Administrative project. For the purpose of this FAQ, I shall refer this type of project as an “administrative plan.” Resolution The manager of the administrative plan should complete the following steps: 1.          Launch Microsoft Project Professional and log into Project Server 2.          Open a new blank project 3.          Enter a task list with the types of tasks you wish to track in the administrative plan 4.          Create summary tasks to organize the tasks in the plan, if necessary 5.          Click Project – Project Information and enter the Start date of the project 6.          For each task, enter the same Duration (the period of time during which you want to gather information) 7.          Click View – Table – Tracking 8.          For each task, set the Actual Start date to the same date as the Start date of the project (this step “anchors” the Start date of each task) 9.          Select all tasks in the project and then click the Task Information button on the Standard toolbar 10.     In the Multiple Task Information dialog, click the Advanced tab 11.     Set the Task Type to Fixed Duration and deselect the Effort driven option 12.     Select the first task in the administrative plan 13.     Click Window – Split 14.     In the lower viewing pane, assign one or more resources to the task with a Units value that represents the percentage of an average working day that each resource will commit to the task In step #14, do not assign the resources at 0% Units or else they would not be able to see the task on their timesheet page in Project Web Access. 15.     Repeat step #14 for each task in the project 16.     Save the project as a regular project in the Project Server database Warning: As your team members enter actuals for the administrative plan in Project Web Access, they should increase the Remaining Work value for each task if the Remaining Work ever reaches 0 hours. Doing so keeps these tasks in the administrative plan as “Current tasks” and makes them always visible in the timesheet.

Thanks ProjectExperts.com

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Jerry

Project Pro 2007 Templates

As you know project 2003 already have templates installed which help projects mangers to get an idea about the plan they are going to develop.  so keeping the stakes hight microsoft projct 2007 has now new and improved project templates.

• Annual Report Preparation
• Develop Skills Needs – Hiring Plan – Hiring Forecast
• Finance and Accounting System Implementation
• Human Resources Information System Implementation
• Marketing Campaign Planning
• Marketing Event Planning and Execution
• Performance Reviews
• Product Development Planning
• Product Evaluation Post Launch
• Six Sigma DMAIC Cycle
• SOX Compliance and Technology Options
• Strategic Merger or Acquisition Evaluation
• Vendor Evaluation and Consolidation
• Customer Feedback Monitoring
• Financial Service Offering Launch
• Internal Readiness Training
• ISO 9001 Management Review
• Managing Incoming Request For Quotes (RFQs)

These templates will help you in most of the situations and while project professional users belongs to multiple industries.  Few qualities of the templates are that generic resources with defined skills are assigned.  Cuncurrent task are definfed and it it verys easy to see the critical paths.  The tasks have notes assiged to it which make it easy to understand.

Regards,

Jerry

Development With SharePoint

Starting development with Sharepoint is not simple and straighforward.  So Here is great article about the tips and tricks on Development with Windows Sharepoint serivces. 

Regards,

Jerry

Finding Options in Office 2007 made easy!

A few minutes back i got very interested feeling about Microsft Office 2007.  I was trying to find the format paragraph line spacing option that was normally available in menu.  I failed to found it on each of the ribbons.  But suddenly the idea of microsoft customer imrovement program came to my mind that All the most clickable items are now available on the first ribbon in Word 2007 screen.  I came to the write section and found the paragraph line spacing options (Denoted by a up and down arrow with small down tag).  And a very interesting thing as well that if i click the Plus Button on top right of the ribbon the same old paragragh dialog pops up.  That lovely.  I love Office 2007. If you would like to know more about office 2007 see the office preview site here

Hey i just thought to publish some cool screen shots of Office 2007. EnjoyWord 2003 in formatting

Jerry