Microsoft Project 2010 Resources and Information

Now that the Advisicon team is back from a productive week learning more about Project 2010, we have a moment to provide more updates based on our notes. There are great web resources available as well, one you should bookmark is the new Microsoft Project 2010 website: http://www.microsoft.com/project/2010/en/us/default.aspx

Additionally, Microsoft announced that they are planning launch events between November 2009 and March 2010, targeting eight cities worldwide. Check the Project website for additional details.

Coordinated release: Indications are that partner and product training services will coincide with the launch of the product. Also, the new product is positioned to release better than Project 2007 as the Project 2010 product launch and enhanced features were based on a number of critical elements, including over three years of data collected from Project 2007 in the form of over 1000 error reports, customer/partner feedback and the Microsoft Project team’s hands-on involvement in the field.

Below are a few notable enhancements, requirements and links:

• Enhancements:
  
  • Server to server integration
    • Valuable for Application Lifecycle Management integrating Team Foundation Server
    • Replace the Outlook add-in with Exchange Server integration
  • ‘Office’ is dropped from the name, currently referred to as Microsoft Project Server 2010
  • Microsoft Project targeting three levels based on an organization’s program collaboration and complexity:
    • Individuals
    • Teams
    • Enterprise
  • Microsoft Project Server 2010 functions within Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (formally known as MOSS); as opposed to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 that functioned within Windows SharePoint Servers (WSS)
  • The 2007 Microsoft Project Conference highlighted key Project 2010 product features like:
    • More rich web-based editing
    • Integration of Portfolio Server into the Project Server environment (single system versus two separately deployed products for 2007)
    • Free form scheduling
    • Team planner
    • Task inspector
    • Client side and server side ribbon (aka Fluent UI)
    • Project Server Interface (PSI) includes Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX) 2.0
• Requirements:
  
  • Prerequisite Installer requirements:
    • IIS 7.0
    • SQL Server Client
    • Microsoft Filter Pack 2010
    • Powershell 2.0
    • Windows Installer 4.5
    • .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
    • Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime 1.0
    • Microsoft Geneva Framework
  • Hardware requirements:
    • Hyper-V
    • 64 Bit Dual Processor
    • 3 GHZ minimum
    • 4 GB RAM minimum
    • 80 GB storage minimum
    • Recommend: 8GB RAM and Quad Processor
  • Operating system requirements
    • Windows Server 2008; 64 Bit SP2
    • SQL Server 2005 SP2 or SQL Server 2008 64-bit
• Links of note:
  
  • Advisicon Blog (www.advisiconblog.com)
  • Chris Capossela Keynote Presentation at the 2009 Project Conference
  • Official announcement of Project 2010
  • Project 2010 team Q&A featuring Microsoft Project General manager Ludovic Hauduc

The Advisicon team is eagerly using and developing solutions based on the beta release of Project 2010. Look for additional updates on the new version as well as critical information on Project 2007.

Regards,

Tim Cermak