Project 2013: What's New For IT ProfessionalsPeter Kestenholz, ProjectumIan White, Microsoft

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Objectives & Agenda

Online

Scalable

Flexible

Development

Key enhancements IT Professionals should know!

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Online

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Project Online with Project Pro for Office 365

All of the benefits of Project Online, plus those of Project Pro for Office 365:

Effectively plan, manage and collaborate with others to deliver winning projects

Always have the most-up-to date version on your PC or other devices

Installed directly from the web in just moments, without the need to uninstall previous versions (can run side-by-side with existing Project applications)

Roams with you, providing quick access and robust security to your latest plans and personal settings

For project managers, resource managers, PMO, business decision makers

Delivered through Office 365

Microsoft Project Online

Target audience

Key benefits

& features

Achieve strategic priorities as well as manage tactical project execution and everyday work

End-to-end PPM capabilities

Work from virtually anywhere on almost any device

Helps all types of organizations get started—visual guides to introduce (or hone) PPM capabilities

Built on SharePoint Online with a familiar experience to improve participation

Straight forward, immediate provisioning

Project Online

For team members, project participants, business decision makers

ERP/CRM

Project ManagersEverybody

PROJECT WEB APP

PROJECT PRO

PROJECT PRO FOR OFFICE 365

PROJECT SERVER 2013

SHAREPOINT SERVER 2013SQL SERVER 2008 R2

WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2

EXCHANGE SERVER 2013

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PROJECT WEB APP PROJECT PRO

PROJECT SERVER 2013

SHAREPOINT SERVER 2013SQL SERVER 2008 R2

WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2

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Project Online

streamed

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Administrating Project Online

What can be done where ?

Microsoft Office365 Portalhttps://portal.microsoftonline.com

SharePoint Admin Centerhttps://tenantname-admin.sharepoint.com

SharePoint/PWA(default)

https://tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/pwa

• Sign-up• Create users and groups• Purchase/assign licenses• Manage workloads (Exchange, Lync,

etc…)• Download (stream) Office clients

• Create/Manage Site Collections• Set quotas, upgrade, etc…• Manage additional services (BCS, Search,

etc..)

• Grant permissions to access individual site collections

• Manage site collection settings and sub sites

• Manage PWA settings

Demo

PROJECT ONLINE ADMINISTRATION

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Scalable

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SHOW OF HANDS!

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Key PPM Enhancements

From 4 DB´s to 1 DBBaselines and re-calculate available from the web

Timesheets does not use the queue

AD Sync optimized (from 14 min to .24 sec)

Timeline view available as a web part

SharePoint designer and Visio can work with PWA

New reporting engine in the Project client

LYNC ready (also in the client)Azure and Marketplace ready

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Web TierReduced Page load time & WAN optimizationsDirect Business Objects database queries for non-queue jobs

Application TierQueue service optimizationReduced number of database requestsActive Directory Synchronization Improvements

Database TierOptimized security validationData transfer improvements (i.e. using Table Value Parameters)SQL best practices (i.e. daily maintenance jobs)

Performance Improvements in All Three Tiers

Minimum Software Requirements

Lync 2010 (Optional)

Project Pro

Windows 7 or 8

TechNet

IE8 or latest version of Firefox, Chrome or Safari

Exchange Server 2013 (Optional)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1

SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

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2010->2013Full Database Attach upgrade supported

Previous versions Upgrade older versions through established migration paths

Automatic database consolidation 4 databases into 1

No Backward Compatibility Mode in 2013

TechNet documentation http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/projectserver

Upgrade Overview

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Flexible

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Two permission models

Simple- SharePoint Permission Mode Leveraging SharePoint’s User Management

Legacy – Project Permission ModeMore granularity

Inclusion of SharePoint project sites and task lists

Demand ManagementFreeform proposal collection using SharePoint listsField mapping tool to move data into Project Server

Key Flexibility Enhancements

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SharePoint Designer and Visio support Windows Workflow 4.0

New Apps ManagementWork with on-premise SharePoint App & online Office MarketplaceStores & provides information concerning SP App licenses & permissionsNew App Management Service

Role based administration (PMO admin vs. SharePoint admin)

Leverage Exchange to sync out of office calendars

Leverage Lync Server for presence information in PWA & Project

Other Enhancements

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Development

Developing for Microsoft Project 2013

Easy Solution Discovery and Deployment

Seamless Solution Experience

Contextual information at your fingertips

ConsistentUserExperience

In-Product Office store and app catalog

Unified Development Tools

Bring Server to the Client

Built on SharePoint and Office

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Project 2013 Professional builds on Project 2010 extensibility

Extensive configuration optionsCustom FieldsViewsVisual Reports(NEW) Project Reports (includes Burn down reporting)Ribbon

Extensibility optionsObject Model – could be manipulated via VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and/or Component Object Model (COM) Add-ins

(NEW) Adds support for Apps for Office

Project Professional 2013 Extensibility

Supported by Project Professional 2013

What is App for Office?

A Web page shown inside an Office Client Application

Task Pane Contextual AppContent App

Assists user working with one or more

documents

Adds embedded content/functionalit

y into document

Senses the content and offers additional

functionality

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Example App – Task Analyzer

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 + Microsoft Office Developer Tools (for Visual Studio 2012)

“App for Office 2013” templatesAllows comfortable debugging experienceMicrosoft .NET Framework 4.5 on the development computer and on the deployment computers

Text EditorHTML webpage(s) and related JavaScript files(s), CSS files and REST queriesXML manifest file

Client Development Tools (SES-B201 OFFICE APP DEVELOPMENT)

Development

Project Server and Online

Project Server 2013 Architecture

WFE

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Project Professional 2013

3rd party on-premises

applicationsSharePoint Apps

PowerShellBrowser

ASPX Pages Web Services WCF Endpoints CSOM/JSOM OData

ForwarderBusiness ObjectsBusiness ObjectsBusiness Objects

WCF Endpoints

Business ObjectsBusiness ObjectsBusiness ObjectsEventing Queue Calc Workflow

content config

Share

Poin

tarchive

dbo

publishdraft

Pro

ject

Event Receiver

AzureWorkflow

cubes

Work Management

Server

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Custom methodologies and templatesPMI or Prince2

Line of Business application integrationERP Systems

Reporting dashboards and web partsReal time reporting without any configuration e.g. S-Curves

Contextual training contentTutorials and automated guides/wizards

Apps for mobile devices and tabletsAccess to data from mobile devices e.g. timesheeting or task updating

Project Server App Ideas

Extensibility On Premise and onlineOnlineExtensibility via SharePoint model (No full trust)Reporting is done via Odata (No direct access to SQL/OLAP)Access using CSOM (PSI interfaces do not support OAuth)Remote Event Receivers

On Premises (everything in Online+...)Full access to databasesFull access to PSI and CSOMEvent Handlers

Please refer to the Project SDK/MSDN for most up-to-date informationhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee767690#pj15_WhatsNew_Comparing

Custom Add-On (On Premise)

App Demo

ADDING A NEW APP

Example – TPG MTA Chart

Example – Solvin TrackTimesheet Go 365

Example – UMT Essentials Lite

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Business Intelligence

Project

New “Excel-like” reporting functionalities

Charts, tables, shapes and images to enhance the report

Copy/paste reports and individual items into Office applications

Good for viewing and printing

Reporting for Project Managers

Project

Reporting using Project Server/OnlineTwo main data sources

1 Relational Reporting database

2 Multidimensional OLAP databases (on-premises only)

Data visualization is relying on the Microsoft BI products

SharePoint BI Center Excel, Excel Services and PowerView Visio, Visio Services PerformancePoint Services (on-premises only) SQL Reporting Services (on-premises only) … or your SharePoint Apps

Project

Excel Services

Project

Visio Services

Project

PowerView

Project

SQL Reporting Services

Getting started with OData feeds

Object URL

Project …/_api/ProjectData/Projects/

Tasks …/_api/ProjectData/Tasks/

Issues …/_api/ProjectData/Issues/

Risks …/_api/ProjectData/Risks/

Assignments …/_api/ProjectData/Assignments/

ResourceTimephasedDataSet

…/_api/ProjectData/ResourceTimephasedDataSet/

Resources …/_api/ProjectData/Resources/

Entity Data Model (EDM) http://ServerName/ProjectServerName/_api/ProjectData/$metadata

e.g. https://mvpblog.sharepoint.com/sites/ppmnow/_api/ProjectData

Demo

FEEDS FROM ODATA USING EXCEL

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Next Steps

Related contentManaging Projects with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Project Professional

Find Us At The Project “Booth”

msdn

Resources for Developers

http://microsoft.com/msdn

Learning

Microsoft Certification & Training Resources

www.microsoft.com/learning

TechNet

Resources

Sessions on Demand

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd

Resources for IT Professionals

http://microsoft.com/technet

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Sites

Project Product Site

Project Blog

Demo

Project Ignite

TechNet: Project Server 2013 for IT Pros

MSDN: Project For Developers

Questions? Check out the Project Forums

Microsoft New Project Resources!Videos

Get Started with Project Online (Overview)

Get Started with Project Online (Demo)

What's new in Project Server 2013 for IT pros (overview)

What's new in Project 2013 for IT Professionals

What’s new in Project 2013 for developers (Overview)

Project Professional 2013 training for developers

Project Server 2013 training for developers

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