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Microsoft Innovation Center (Kuwait) :: Enterprise Project Management Deep Dive WorkshopYes, MS EPM is now hitting hard in Kuwait and a lot wanted to start utilizing the power of it. As a series of increasing the awareness and importance of this solution I have conducted a lot of sessions in different large events in Kuwait The MS EPM flight is landing in MIC (Microsoft Innovation Center, Kuwait) now and the seats are so limited :) You can download the invitation letter from my blog (please follow this link to download), fill it and email it back to the email address mentioned in the invitation document itself. The Workshop title will be :: Your Road Map to Project Management using MS EPM Solution and the workshop will cover the following topics (spanned into 5 days, 3 hours a day, 6-9 PM) Day 1 Getting Started with Office Project Server 2007 Initiating Projects Planning Projects—Context and Framework Day 2 Planning Projects—Scope and Schedule Management Planning Projects—Staffing Management Plan Planning Projects—Resource Assignments Day 3 Planning Projects—Cost, Risk and Other Management Plans Executing Projects—Processes, Resources, and Deliverables Executing Projects—Manage Timesheets and Personal Settings Day 4 Monitoring and Controlling Projects—Context and Framework Monitoring and Controlling Projects—Tracking Task and Project Progress Day 5 Monitoring and Controlling Projects—Measuring Performance and Reporting Progress Closing Projects Complete Life Cycle case
For more information you can Call me at +965 7205246 Email me: bilal@arabilla.net Or post a comment here Best Regards Bilal Okour MS Project Server 2007 Best Practice :: Forms vs Windows AuthenticationI guess so many people are happy with the windows authentication features that comes with MS Project Server and found it very easy to setup and to use. But did they know that there is another way of authenticating users, i am sure that they knew but they never think when and how to use it First let me focus on facts about each and when each one is recommended to be used? Windows Authentication
Forms Authentication
I will be posting more articles about Forms authentication, be tuned Best Regards Bilal Okour MS Project Server 2007 Best Practice :: submit, approve, apply and publishThe confusion of how to use the EPM in the right way is common everywhere. The main two player in this environment (Project Managers & Team Members) find sometimes difficult to understand why the EPM is not reflecting the progress information for any published project. To understand this you can take it simply like this
The picture below can tell this in a better way Best Regards Bilal Okour Microsoft Technology Day, Don't miss it next yearYes, I mean it, 45 sessions that touched the latest related to Microsoft were shown at the biggest event in Kuwait. I hope you did attend your favorites topics and get the maximum benefits. Now back to my sessions, the two rooms allocated for my sessions were full. I was expecting that due to the extensive registrations on my sessions during the registration time. At a moment I said, thanks God, I did good preparation for such an audience. It would have been a big loss if I did not do so. The first session were about administrative part of EPM, the 2nd and 3rd were about the best practice for Project Managers and the other main players in EPM environment. Last one, it was supposed to be about Monitoring and Controlling, but I was able to cover part of it only, the rest inshalla will be conducted in the future in a separate session I have announced www.pmroad.com as the first community for Project Managers in Kuwait. also I announced the start publishing of a series about the best practice in EPM on my blog
So, my recommendation for you "From now and over, don's miss any event related to the main communities in kuwait (dotNetboom, ProRangers and msexperts) and expect it to be always BIG by default" Best Regards Bilal Okour I will be there @ Microsoft Technology DayDear All, Please consider this as an invitation to attend the "Microsoft Technology Day" organized by MSExperts.net community in Kuwait. This is considered as one of the largest event for IT people in the Gulf area where 45 session will be running in series and parallel. 20 speakers from Middle east & Africa. I will be conducting a series of 4 session covering Microsoft EPM under the Title of Your Road Map To Project Management using Microsoft EPM Solution
Session 1 Block 1 (10:15 AM - 11:15 AM) Session 2 Block 2 (11:30 AM - 12:30 PM) Session 3 Block 3 (01:15 PM - 02:15 PM) Session 4 Block 4 (02:30 PM - 03:30 PM) So, I will be waiting for you there on Sunday 30 of March 2008 You can register through http://www.msexperts.net Best Regards Bilal Okour I am leaving the buildingOnly today I have took the sharp decision to move to new company, big, challenged and in a role of MIS Manager.
For my x-company, I had to admit that I got impressed of the company style and reputation. I met hundreds of professional people there and made good connections. So I would like to say that I feel proud that I worked in Agility. Note: Needless to mention that the photo in this post is NEITHER my new office NOR my old one, it is just a one I took from the web. enjoy ! Best Regards Bilal Okour, Kuwait, 4th March 2008 MS Project 2007 ::What are the available reports
MS Project 2007 :: Timesheet statusThe following Status Definitions are available:
Best Regards Bilal Okour Community Open Day :: DotNetBoom & ProRangersCommunity Open Day MS Project 2007 :: installing SP1 result in Stopping Microsoft Office Project Server Events Service
After searching completely the "Whole Internet" I found one post talking about this issue please check this url and what I came to know that this service trying to access the Internet address http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/CodeSignPCA.crl but the network setup did not allow this (this is true and expected for the ideal and secure network). I was sure that this is my issue that stopped me from completing my work in the last 2 days. So, the only solution suggested by my colleagues in Networks and Systems department is to allow Internet Access in complete during the installation of SP1 then remove it It work, yes, but for me I consider this a stupid bug regardless of the person who wrote the code unless it is a policy to catch the people who are using the unlicensed copies. Again I considered it as a bug because it did not report this to the event log. Best Regards Bilal Okour MS Project Server 2007 :: How to install it in a single modeHi folks
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/c9531164-2705-4233-84d1-78bd728dd7611033.mspx Best Regards Bilal Okour Community Open Day, WOW, It was amazingDear All, Thanx only to God ... and our first Community open Day went very successfully with 110 person attend. The initial feedback we received I can summarize it as the following
I have posted a photo album for this community event, please check out my photo album in this blog Best Regards Bilal Okour MS Project 2007 :: Corrupted TasksHow do you know if your Project has a corrupted tasks, simply the following indicators will till you if so
Best Regards Bilal Okour MS Project :: You need to know these termsHere are some useful interpretation Duration = Actual Duration + Remaining Duration Note: Remember to baseline your plan to save the original values Best Regards Bilal Okour Remember this Date (16th Feb 2008) !!
So far the registered people for the event are around 280+, I don’t know how much will really attend my sessions but for sure they are going to be BIG. I am so excited to get into this experience as it is really a challenging one. So wait for me in this event and don't forget to wish me the best wishes For more details please refer to the ad somewhere below this post
Best Regards Bilal Okour MS Project Best Practice :: How to use Outlook as client for MS Project Server
To use outlook as a client for Microsoft Project 2007
Best Regards Bilal Okour I will be speaking in 2 big events in KuwaitDear All, for all who are interesting in understanding Microsoft EPM solution then they can attend my sessions at the following two major events
More details will come soon and I will make sure to keep you updated
Best Regards Bilal Okour MS Project 2007: Examples about Tasks TypesThis question is always being asked : What task type should I use, I wrote two posts earlier about only this topic, you can refer to these posts to get a clear idea about what I am talking about, here are the links for those posts http://ebilal.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1EB5037F50572440!696.entry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||