Sharing here first – post the Ignite conference

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If you’re looking for the inside track on Microsoft Project, Project Online and Office 365 Planner look no further than Brian Smith’s blog

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brismith/

• Carsten Lund Pedersen
• Thomas Ritter

https://hbr.org/2017/07/the-4-types-of-project-manager

https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Best-practices-to-improve-Resource-Engagements-performance-203972b9-3625-44af-9d77-19cedc8bd290

There’s been feedback that Project Online customers were experiencing page load delays and timeouts when trying to view Resource Requests. To address this, last month Microsoft published Best practices to improve Resource Engagements performance. This article provides customers with methods of preventing these errors, such as creating views that will help them to display only the proposed Resource Requests for users they manage. 

Here are a number of useful links to help with understanding Project & Project Online in a little more detail.

http://youtube.com/user/msftproject

https://www.youtube.com/user/ccpond

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dn756399.aspx

Useful books – they’re for 2013 but they will cover 98% of 2016

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Implementing-Administering-Microsoft-Project-Server/dp/1934240257/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_3/280-7093284-7864445?ie=UTF8&qid=1419256572&sr=8-3-fkmr2&keywords=project+server+admin

 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Project-Managing-Projects-Portfolios/dp/1934240281/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1/280-7093284-7864445?ie=UTF8&qid=1419256572&sr=8-1-fkmr2&keywords=project+server+admin

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Project-Management-Using-Microsoft-2013/dp/061582188X/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2/280-7093284-7864445?ie=UTF8&qid=1419256572&sr=8-2-fkmr2&keywords=project+server+admin

When you select Project Online it’s strongly recommended that you work with a qualified Partner.

Partners help in many ways:

1. Get you productive more quickly,
2. Stop you wandering down challenging paths
3. Provide structured guidance and training

Follow this link to find a local Partner

https://products.office.com/en-us/project/microsoft-project-partners

I’m pleased to be able to provide details of scaling and performance updates that the product team has announced today (3^rd April 2017).  Please review the links below and speak to your deployment Partner, or me, if you have any questions.

30K Project Blog Post

https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/03/create-and-manage-up-to-30000-projects-in-project-online/

Tune Project Online performance 

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Tune-Project-Online-performance-12ba0ebd-c616-42e5-b9b6-cad570e8409c?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB

The End of life (EOL) for Project 2007 applications and server takes effect on October 10, 2017.

Read the full article: Project Server 2007 End of Life Roadmap

What does End of Life mean?

Project Server, like almost all Microsoft products, has a support lifecycle during which we provide new features, bug fixes, security fixes, and so on. This lifecycle typically lasts for 10 years from the date of the product’s initial release, and the end of this lifecycle is known as the product’s End of Life. When Project Server 2007 reaches its End of Life on October 10, 2017, Microsoft will no longer provide:

• Technical support for problems that may occur.
• Bug fixes for issues that are discovered and that may impact the stability and usability of the server.
• Security fixes for vulnerabilities that are discovered and that may make the server vulnerable to security breaches.
• Time zone updates.

Your installation of Project Server 2007 will continue to run after this date. However, because of the changes listed above, we strongly recommend that you migrate from Project Server 2007 as soon as possible.