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Presenting @HSPUG Transitioning from #SP2013 to #PS2013 for #EPM / #PPM November 20th 2013 #MSProject #ProjectServer
One of my first tasks at BrightStarr is getting myself known in the area and what better way than to start presenting at the local user groups. So without further ado:
Transitioning from SP to PS for Enterprise Project Management
Presenter: Giles Hamson
As a Project Manager, challenges exist with determining what are the best tools to use to help you be most effective. Project Server and SharePoint are two different tools for Project Management that include their advantages and disadvantages.
In this session, you will come away with the following information:
- A high level understanding of how SharePoint and Project Server work together
- The benefits of enterprise project management
- Project management maturity expectations as solutions become increasingly more complex
About Giles Hamson
Giles Hamson has been working with collaboration technologies since 2001 and has been implementing SharePoint solutions from 2004; starting with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 whilst working in the Microsoft Dynamics division in Reading, UK.
Giles has worked in multiple roles throughout his career working as a business analyst, moving into system analysis and development roles.
After gaining experience across Linux, Solaris and Microsoft disciplines, Giles moved into consultancy within the education market creating learning platform solutions based on SharePoint and integration with 3rd party vendors. After several successful implementations Giles moved into consultancy in SharePoint and Project Server across multiple industry verticals.
- Giles has recently moved from the UK to Austin, TX and joined BrightStarr.
Also being presented at the November H-SPUG meeting is:
Bringing it all together with the Content Search Web Part
Presenter: Paul McCollum
Finally take full advantage of the power of search. Construct powerful IT Pro solutions using the Content Search Web Part, Keyword Query Language and the new query builder. Gain perspective on enterprise-wide events and content from a single location.
About Paul McCollum
A very early computing adopter, Paul has been programming for more than 30 years, writing his first lines of code in the 2nd grade. The past 20 years have been focused on the Portal space starting by hand with Notepad and Vi. 
He hopped over to SharePoint in 2007 and hasn’t looked back. More recently his role is as an Enterprise Solution Architect and Platform Manager at 7-Eleven. His current focus is around empowering power users and IT pros with rapid development solutions without code or with highly accessible JavaScript and jQuery. In his spare time, Paul contributes to technology forecasting news sites and coaches volleyball
Location
Microsoft Office, 2000 West Sam Houston Parkway South, #350, Houston, TX 77042 (http://binged.it/17PdJ46)
Date & Time
20th November 2013 – 17:30 till 20:00
Registration
If you manage to make it, come up and say hello 
Attachment is missing from an e-mail message #SharePoint #SP2007 #SP2010 #SP2013
At a client recently, we were having the issue of emails being sent to a list but the attachments were not appearing with the email.
In this scenario, it was working if we sent it directly to the list email address, but if we forwarded from Exchange via a contact, no attachments came through.
Anyway, it would appear the following needs to be set:
If attachments are missing from email messages that are sent to a SharePoint document library, it might be because you associated the document library with an email address. When you do this, Directory Management Service may not add the following two attributes to the user associated with the email address:
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internet Encoding = 1310720
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mAPIRecipient = false
- Full details are below.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926891
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287879(v=office.12).aspx#section8
SharePoint Foundation 2010 / SharePoint Server 2010
SharePoint Foundation 2013 / SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint 2013 web services: View JSON results via Firefox
If you are working with SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow action “Call HTTP Web Service” then you might know that return results in JSON via accept header is important. But what if you want to view the JSON results in the browser? It would be helpful to see the data you are about to consume. The video below will demonstrate how to do that in Firefox. I don’t know how it is done in Chrome or IE (The video has no audio)
Other helpful links:
SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow error: The HTTP header ACCEPT is missing or its value is invalid
SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow action “Call HTTP Web Service”
#SPSUK slides: Transitioning from #SP2013 to #PS2013 for #EPM #MSProject #SharePoint
Thank to all those who attend my presentation yesterday at SharePoint Saturday UK 2012. There were lots of questions throughout and a thoroughly engaged audience.
Presentation Slides
The slides are now uploaded here: http://www.slideshare.net/Ghamson/cps-transitioning-from-sharepoint-to-project-server-2013-for-enterprise-project-management
Via PowerPoint (Office Web Apps / SkyDrive)
Video Demonstration
I also created a video of the demonstration of the day. This is embedded as part of the presentation and is also available here:
Transitioning from #SP2013 to #PS2013 for Enterprise Project Management #SPSUK #MSProject #SharePoint
Just a quick note to say that I will be presenting at SharePoint Saturday UK on December 8th 2012 on:
Project Site to Project Management
Transitioning from SharePoint to Project Server for Enterprise Project Management
Session Objectives:
After attending this session you will understand the different tools for Project Management offered with SharePoint and Project Server, including the advantages / disadvantages of each method.
In addition you will also takeaway:
- A high level understanding of how SharePoint / Project Server work together
- The benefits of enterprise project management
- Project management maturity expectations as solutions become more complex
Agenda:
- What’s Project Server / Project Online
- Understanding Project Maturity
- Supporting Tools
- Transition – Simple to Complex
- Demo
- Decisions – Where to start?
- Conclusion
Where, When, How?
- Conference: SharePoint Saturday UK 2012
- Location: Nottingham
- Date: Saturday, 8 December 2012
- Conference Times: 09:00 to 17:00 (GMT)
- Presentation Time: 13:30 to 14:30
- Presenter: Giles Hamson
- Full Address:
East Midlands Conference Centre
University Park
NG7 2RJ Nottingham
United Kingdom
If you see me during the day, say hello and I hope you all enjoy the conference.
#SharePoint Conference 2012 Opening Keynote #SP2013 #PS2013 #MSProject #ProjectServer
Just a quick email to say that the Opening Keynote from the SharePoint Conference 2012 is now available online.
#SP2013 #PS2013 and Business Intelligence TechNet links
Just a few useful links from the newly released / updated TechNet articles around SharePoint, Project Server and BI in 2013
SharePoint 2013
- Hardware planning support: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx
- Browser support including activex controls http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526(v=office.15).aspx
- Mobile device support: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161353(v=office.15).aspx
- Software Boundaries and Limitations: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787(v=office.15).aspx
- Capacity / Performance Management: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758647(v=office.15).aspx
- IPv4 / IPv6 Guidelines: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748826(v=office.15).aspx
Project Server 2013
- Hardware and Software requirements: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee683978(v=office.15).aspx
- Performance and Capacity: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff646967(v=office.15).aspx
- Plan User Access
- Good overview video of the two different permission models and why you would use one over the other: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161361(v=office.15).aspx
Business Intelligence within SharePoint 2013
- Software Requirements: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219634(v=office.15).aspx
Excel Services
- Remember with Office Web Apps as a seperate SKU and install, things are a little different this time around…http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424405(v=office.15).aspx
- BI functionality within Excel Services for SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Online and interestingly, SkyDrive: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219751(v=office.15).aspx
PerformancePoint
- PerformancePoint 2013 overview including migration!!!: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424392(v=office.15).aspx
- PerformancePoint Strategy Maps: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff535783(v=office.15).aspx
Visio Services
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663482(v=office.15).aspx
- Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30375
- NB: Remember this is not for production environments yet.
Reporting Services / Power View / PowerPivot
Reporting Services 2012 SP1 CTP3 or higher required for PowerPivot functionality
2012 SP1 CTP4 is out and RS2012 installation details here:
SQL Server 2012 BI – includes links to Report Builder, Power View and PowerPivot help
Reporting Services 2012 Developers Reference
Hardware and Software requirements for Reporting Services and Power View
Supported Reporting Services with SharePoint combinations
Reporting Services add-in locations
Feature support for rs2012 Native vs. SharePoint
Reporting Services 2012 feature availability comparison with different SQL Server 2012 editions
Office 2013 Preview Client Requirement #Office365 #MSProject #PS2013 #SP2013
As we gear up further here at CPS with the Office 2013 Preview and what it means for our clients, we started to look client requirements.
Now many of our larger clients are still running Windows XP and looking at the confirmed clients requirements for the Office 2013 Preview, it would appear Windows 7 and higher now the new standard with Internet Explorer 8 or above.
In Microsoft’s defence, Windows XP is a very old operating system and we can’t expect them to support it forever.
To work out when mainstream support ends for your versions of Office and Windows, you and go to the Microsoft Product Lifecycle – Support Home:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx
Anyway, on with some of the details I came across:
Office 2013 Preview App-V (Streaming) Client Requirements
For those of you using the Office 365 Preview, the Office 2013 / Project 2013 clients that stream down via App-V (Application Virtualisation). The preview also uses a new version of App-V, version 5.0 beta 2 of which the minimum requirements is also Windows 7 or higher.
App-V 5.0 Beta 2
Supported operating systems:
- Windows 7
- Windows 8 Release Preview
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate
App-V Packages + Requirements: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30423
Office 2013 Preview Client Requirements
Details of the requirements are below. Specific details by product are at the MSDN link below:
| Component | Requirement |
| Computer and Processor | 1 gigahertz or faster x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set |
| Memory (RAM) | 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32 bit); 2 gigabytes (GB) RAM (64 bit) |
| Hard disk | 3.0 gigabytes (GB) available |
| Display | Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX10 graphics card and 1024 x 576 resolution |
| Operating System | Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012 |
| Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10; Mozilla Firefox 10.x or a later version; Apple Safari 5; or Google Chrome 17.x |
| .NET version | 3.5, 4.0, or 4.5 |
| Multi-touch | A touch-enabled device is required for any multi-touch functionality. However, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that new touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8. |
System Requirements:
SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans 