Project Server 2013 Preview First Impressions

by | Aug 7, 2012 | Project 2013 | 1 comment

First impressions matter and so far I’m impressed.

Exciting Stuff (in no particular order)

  • SharePoint Security model – no more Manage Users / Groups! Literally, the links are gone! Awesome.
  • Integration of PDP’s and the Project Site is great! Such a simple change but it does improve the navigation.

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  • Set Baseline from PWA! (If that doesn’t excite you then think about it; Baseline through Demand Management / Governance Workflows!)

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  • Performance is good – granted my lab runs on SSD but page loads are fast, perception of performance is very good.
  • SharePoint Task List projects are nice, perfect replacement for what would currently be a basic online edited project. I especially love the fact that from Project Centre New Project throws the user directly into the Project Site after creation!

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  • Timeline all over PWA – love it! (So will my customers!)

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The not so great

  • Still cannot do % allocations in PWA. :(
  • Need to read-up on what happened to Security Categories my favourite miss-understood Project feature.
  • I still can’t find the site breadcrumb? (e.g. Navigate back to PWA from a project site)

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  1. Barbara Henhapl
    Barbara Henhapl on August 7, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    Hi Martin,

    I also struggled on missing categories when trying the first time. Default is Sharepoint Permission Mode. But you can switch to Project Server Permission mode with “Set-SPProjectPermissionMode -url -mode ProjectServer”. This will provide permissions as we are used to. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff631142(v=office.15).aspx#section13 for more on that.

    Barbara

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