PPM Tricks

If you are using multiple different Office 365 tenants you have properly seen below login screen way too many times. (sorry for the Danish screenshots) Every day I spend a lot of time finding passwords and login information to different tenants. To overcome this problem and have a very easy way to login to all tenants simultaneously I found a cool feature in Google Chrome today. Profiles is here to save you Create a profile for each tenant and use these profiles when you want access the tenants. 1. Start Google Chrome 2. Go to Settings 3. Scroll down to persons/users and add a profile for each tenant. (I have a profile for a tenant called 365 and one for a tenant called DevProj ) 3. Give the profiles a cool icon like the Ninja or the Flower. 4. Now right-click the default profile and select one of your new profiles. 5. Login, for the last time, to the tenant. (do not forget to check the Remember Me checkbox) Now you are al...

The product team have released a new tile for Power BI which can make a very nice representations of a Gantt Chart. Blow is an example of what the Gantt chart in Power BI Designer. The tile can be downloaded here . To use the tile, simply download it and import it to Power BI Desktop. The tile have a number of fields and measures, if you have trouble figure them out you can download my sample .pbix file here

If you have the below error in Visual Studio when you try and debug a SharePoint App: Severity Code Description Project File Line Error Error occurred in deployment step 'Install app for SharePoint': The file exists. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070050) [AppName]  0 You have properly already tried:  - Clean the solution  - Manually uninstall the solution  - Upgraded the App version number  - Retracting the solution If none of the above works and you are pulling your hair for a solution, try and run Visual Studio in Administrative mode . This have fixed the problem for me many times and i think it was time to share it :-).

Release Candidate for SharePoint 2016 and Project Server 2016 is ready for download. Notice the installer now contains both SharePoint and Project Server. Previously it have been two different installers. SharePoint and Project Server 2016 RC Download If you are using SharePoint Online or Project Online you will already know a lot of the new features. New features (among many):  - Better mobile and touch support  - App Launcher (Waffle)  - Integration with OneDrive  - Large file support  - Resource Engagements (Project Server Only)  - Video Portal  - Yammer support  - Delve (Intelligent Search) Source:  https://blogs.office.com

Problem So today I came across a strange error in SharePoint/Project Online. 3 users were not able to see the Project Center, Resource Center or add new items to a document library. The issue was clearly related to their PC's as other users had the same problem on their PC's and they didn't have the problem on other PC's. Everybody had the same version of Internet Explorer, Same regional settings and same language installed. In their IE log they were all receiving the following error. SCRIPT5009: 'Sys' is undefined projects.aspx, line 124 character 219 SCRIPT5009: 'Sys' is undefined projects.aspx, line 150 character 1 SCRIPT5007: The value of the property 'WebForm_InitCallback' is null or undefined, not a Function object projects.aspx, line 656 character 1 SCRIPT5007: The value of the property '$get' is null or undefined, not a Function object shell.js?rev=YwnNMDxuVwsNnI9A1oL38w%3D%3D, line 2 character 501...

Do you also miss the user type custom field in Project Server? Don't worry, The People Picker App is now available in the SharePoint Store . Simply install the App from the SharePoint Store and add the People Picker to you PDP. Now no project manager will be able to type an incorrect user name.

Do you also spend a lot of time searching for your project in Project Online. Is it time consuming to find the correct PDP or navigate to the project site. Now the Project Search app is available in Project Online. And it is currently free to install on any Project Online environment. To install the app simply search for "Project Search" in the SharePoint store and install it on your PWA. Insert the Project Seach App Part to any page on the PWA. For example the front page. Save the page and start searching for Projects.