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Project Selection: Portfolio Analysis using Copilot in Excel with Python

Brian-Smith on Sep 25 2024 10:45 AM
One of my favourite features in Project Online, and Project Server, has been the portfolio features that allow you do ma...
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Project Online: SharePoint Custom Script control impact

Brian-Smith on Aug 21 2024 04:19 PM
In February 2024, Message Center post MC 714186 detailed changes coming to Custom Script settings in SharePoint Online. ...
4,726

Planner: Copy a plan to a premium plan

Brian-Smith on May 08 2024 02:04 PM
When you use the trial feature for premium plans you can promote a plan to be a premium plan a.k.a. Project for the web ...
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Using Power Automate for Project Lifecycle Workflows in Project Online – Part 3

Brian-Smith on Apr 10 2024 03:17 PM
In this latest posting I look at using Dataverse as another option for saving status, rather than the SharePoint lists s...
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Using Power Automate for Project Lifecycle Workflows in Project Online – Part 2

Brian-Smith on Mar 08 2024 01:30 PM
This 2nd article describes ways customers can obtain similar functionality to their current Project Online workflows usi...
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Using Power Automate for Project Lifecycle Workflows in Project Online – Part 1

Brian-Smith on Mar 06 2024 02:45 PM
This article describes ways customers can obtain similar functionality to the current workflows by using Power Automate ...
4,440

Project Server: Project Subsite Lists Lack Essential Forms

Brian-Smith on Aug 08 2023 04:18 PM
This is an issue we heard from a few customers still on Project Server 2016 after they loaded some updates earlier in th...
4,318

Understanding Assignment Schedules in Project for the Web

Brian-Smith on Jul 24 2023 02:03 PM
The idea for this blog post came from a recent support question from one of our Project Operations customers - but equal...
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Upgrading your Workflow Manager for Project Server

Brian-Smith on Mar 27 2023 08:34 AM
There was a recent release of a new Workflow Manager for all versions of SharePoint on-premises, so also therefore, for ...
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Reading Project Online OData with Azure Data Factory

Brian-Smith on Sep 02 2022 03:53 PM
If you are moving from SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) as your method of reading Project Online OData to Azure Da...
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Guest Users and Project for the web

Brian-Smith on May 12 2022 03:37 PM
If you can't add guests as members of Groups in Project (and you can elsewhere) then maybe the tenant admin hasn't set a...
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Project Server Subscription Edition Public Updates

bdiana on Dec 21 2021 04:15 AM
This article will keep the list of updates delivered for Project Server Subscription Edition
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Constraints, Calendars and Time Zones in Project

Brian-Smith on Sep 21 2021 05:00 AM
We often get support questions asking how Project calculates things - and it depends on a lot of settings - and also the...
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Schedule Modes, and task and resource usage in Project for the web

Brian-Smith on Aug 18 2021 02:31 PM
The new Project now allows you set set different schedule modes, so in addition to Fixed Duration, you can choose Fixed ...
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Getting M365 Admin Center info with the Graph API

Brian-Smith on Aug 16 2021 11:33 AM
The built-in sync to Planner in the Message Center is great, but there are still times when you might want to craft your...
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For those Microsoft 365 changes that need a project to implement

Brian-Smith on Feb 22 2021 03:02 PM
If you hadn't already realized - I am a big fan of the Message Center to Planner integration - but some changes we intro...
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Enterprise Global not loading after migration to Project Server 2019

Brian-Smith on Dec 02 2020 03:30 PM
Great to see so many people upgrading to the latest - but one issue we have heard is that the Enterprise Global template...
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App + User authentication and Project Online development

Brian-Smith on Nov 23 2020 02:43 PM
With the most recent updates to the SharePoint client object model (CSOM) libraries it is now possible to authenticate t...
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Project Online: Adding tasks where you want them with Power Automate

Brian-Smith on Feb 03 2020 10:46 AM
This is a guest post from Daniel Partridge - who answered an internal enquiry at Microsoft, for a colleague who needed t...
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My holiday gift to you - update posts are up to date!

Brian-Smith on Dec 27 2019 02:01 PM
I'd let these slip a bit - but I just updated the Project 2016, Project Server 2016 and Project Server 2019 posts with t...
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Project for the web - some users not resolving in the assigned to field

Brian-Smith on Nov 11 2019 09:00 AM
If you have had your Office 365 tenant for some time (since before Guests were a thing) and migrated accounts in from on...
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Roadmap - have you disabled some necessary services?

Brian-Smith on Aug 21 2019 06:58 AM
If Roadmap is telling you Sorry, something went wrong, we couldn't finish setting up Roadmap. Please contact your admin ...
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Project Online or Project Server - best leave the master pages alone!

Brian-Smith on Jul 11 2019 09:42 AM
We have always blocked SharePoint Designer from allowing master page edits as it can break PWA - and we had a post that ...
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Project Professional not working on Windows 7?

Brian-Smith on Jul 02 2019 01:35 PM
*** New info 7/9/2019 - see below *** There is an issue with a recent update (June 2019) of the Project Professional cli...
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Project and Project Online - multi factor authentication

Brian-Smith on Jun 17 2019 09:00 AM
This topic of MFA and PJO was a suggestion for the last blog on my old site from Didier Maignan. I missed the boat and t...
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Project Server 2019 Public Updates

Brian-Smith on May 21 2019 02:34 PM
This article will keep the list of updates delivered for Project Server 2019 - currently up to the February 2020 update.
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Where did that old MSDN/TechNet post go?

Brian-Smith on Apr 12 2019 02:06 PM
You may be landing here on a redirect from our MSDN or TechNet blogs. Most of the content of the Project Support blog is...
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All the 2010, 2013 and 2016 Project and Project Server Updates

Brian-Smith on Mar 29 2019 07:26 AM
I'm moved over and updated the pages of Public Updates for each of the Products - some have had to be split due to post ...
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Project 2016 Updates (RTM to December 2016)

Brian-Smith on Mar 29 2019 06:31 AM
As part of my Blog migration process I will be adding here the pages that listed all the updates for 2010, 2013 and 2016...
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Project Server 2013 - Which Public Update do you have? At least April 2018 I hope!

Brian-Smith on Mar 26 2019 09:06 AM
If you are still running Project Server 2013 then you should already know you are out of mainstream support - but next m...

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Brian-Smith
in Project Selection: Portfolio Analysis using Copilot in Excel with Python on Sep 26 2024 07:48 PM
Hi @mikegruia , and good to hear from you! I must admit the goal here was just seeing if I could, and not really thinking if I should ;), but I found the experience enlightening as I had that conversation with Copilot and nudged it to get where I wanted to go. You are spot on - and while initial sel...
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mikegruia
in Project Selection: Portfolio Analysis using Copilot in Excel with Python on Sep 26 2024 06:23 PM
Brian, it’s fascinating to see portfolio management evolving with Copilot in Excel. But the real question isn’t whether we can automate models that are over 50 years old—it's whether we should even be trying.I developed the first version of this model in 1995 and sold it to Microsoft in 2007. The po...
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Brian-Smith
in Project Selection: Portfolio Analysis using Copilot in Excel with Python on Sep 26 2024 07:31 AM
Thanks @DuncanGriffin , and yes, long live Portfolio Analysis!
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DuncanGriffin
in Project Selection: Portfolio Analysis using Copilot in Excel with Python on Sep 26 2024 12:03 AM
Love that you did this @Brian-Smith . Very impressive example. Long live Portfolio Analysis 🙂
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David_Howe
in Project Online: How do I find who is using Project Online? on Sep 06 2024 08:08 AM
Back on 8/14/24, I ran the "Content Viewing" report from the https://MY_SPO_URL/PWA_URL/_layouts/15/Reporting.aspx?Category=Auditing as suggested above. The report gave me what I needed. I ran it again today and the results were different. The first time I ran it on 8/14, the 'User Id' column was po...
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