Outlook and Project

[April]

If my office were to purchase the server, could you tell me how that would
help us fit our business needs? Having a program that can communicate with
Outlook is very important for us and I need to be sure that Project with
server could do this. Will it be able to e-mail or send employee's deadline
reminders (for different steps of the project due on a specific date)? Will
it be able to send them reminders if a deadline has changed that will notify
them of the change? Could it even schedule meetings for people? I need to
know how well Outlook and Project can be integrated.

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi April,

Worth having a look at my blog for a posting on the reminder settings for
Project Server, however in essense, Project Server can send an email to any
SMTP server when tasks are due, late, or when the schedule changes.

Project Server won't schedule meetings, however, you can set up a recurring
task which does effectively the same thing. However, it *will not* check
your outlook calendar to see if you have free time in your calendar.

It might be worth engaging a consultant to investigate your business needs
further to see if Project Server is a good fit.