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jerryyasir — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:36:17 +0000

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.

Regards,

Jerry

Few SharePoint Links

jerryyasir — Mon, 15 May 2006 08:35:47 +0000

Hi, A group of few students have recently started to work on SharePoint. They are students of a very good university here in lahore. They give me a very interesting feedback about the SharePoint. According to them they found only few persons in their universities who know about SharePoint. Most of people says “What is Share Point”. but any way .. they started to learn about SharePoint and found few links which i think must be shared here. http://www.intranetjournal.com/sharepoint (Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technology)

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200502/ij_02_04_05a.html (An Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server)

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/EssentialWSSSPS2003Archit.asp (Windows SharePoint Services & SharePoint Server 2003 Architecture Essentials)

www.dot.state.oh.us/dist2/DocImaging/Research/99297.pdf (Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server ) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/reskit/c0561881x.mspx (SharePoint Portal Server Architecture) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharepoint_portal_server
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010909721033.aspx (SharePoint Portal Server) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/de…
http://www.microsoft.com/sharePoint
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/ (Next Version of Office) Regards, Jerry

regular Microsoft Project plan that functions like Administrative Project

jerryyasir — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:04:22 +0000

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

Regards,

Jerry

Project Pro 2007 Templates

jerryyasir — Tue, 09 May 2006 08:56:14 +0000

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

jerryyasir — Mon, 08 May 2006 17:46:02 +0000

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

FIFA Worldcup WebPart

jerryyasir — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:07:51 +0000

As most of you know and if you dont then now you will know that FIFA Soccer world cup is now under 40 days to go. If you do not know about it or looking for more information Click here. But i did’nt blog about it just to tell you about it. The purpose of this blog is to let you know about another great great product by TAM TAM guys from netherland. It is now called Worldcup webpart. These webparts will save your perdictions using a public webservice and then shows a result from analysis from other people who used the perdiction webpart. If you have a Sharepoint environment in your organization and there are people who are interested in Soccer worldcup then you must use the web part.

Regards, Jerry

PDC 2006

jerryyasir — Sun, 07 May 2006 12:41:42 +0000

I just got information from CHAD who is MEA evangalist for middle east and Afrika that PDC 2006 will be held on June 28 and June 29th (Tentative). The year the event will be in both Lahore and karachi. Although this is not final but microsoft is planning to video feed the sessions from lahore to karachi and karachi to lahore. That is absolutly nice. I think microsoft has realized the passion for PDC for people in lahore who have to travel to karachi for the event. I think this PDC event will be JAMMED pack. So everyone tight your seatbelt and wait for registeration to start. This year it may be First come first get.

Regards,

Jerry

Finding Options in Office 2007 made easy!

jerryyasir — Sat, 06 May 2006 23:36:49 +0000

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

HOW TO ENTER OVERTIME WORK IN PWA

jerryyasir — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:29:58 +0000

How do Team Members enter actual overtime work in Project Web Access?

Resolution

If your organization's method for tracking progress is Hours of work done per day or per week, then each team member can add a line for Actual Overtime Work to his/her Project Web Access timesheet. To do this, each team member should complete the following steps:

1. Click the View Options tab

2. Select the "Show Overtime Work" option

If your organization's method for tracking progress is Actual work done and work remaining, then all project managers will need to add the Actual Overtime Work column to the list of publish fields for all projects that they manage. To do so, each project manager must complete the following steps:

1. Launch Microsoft Project Professional and log into Project Server

2. Open a project

3. Click Tools – Customize – Published fields

4. Select the Actual Overtime Work field from the list on the left and copy it to the list on the right

5. Click the "Set as default" button to add this field to all new blank projects

6. Click OK

7. Click Collaborate – Publish – Republish Assignments and then click OK

Note: If your organization uses Project Server 2003 along with the Actual work done and work remaining method of tracking progress, the Project Server administrator must add the Actual Overtime Work field to the Timesheet view by completing the following steps:

1. Log into Project Web Access with administrator permissions

2. Click Admin – Manage views

3. Select the Timesheet view and click the Modify View button

4. Add the Actual Overtime Work field to the list on the right

5. Position the Actual Overtime Work field using the Up and Down buttons

6. Click the Save Changes button

Thanks to Project Server Expert.com

Best Regards,

Jerry

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