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I have some basic questions about MS Project server if anybody can answer
these I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Are we talking software only here?
If so, what are the hardware server requirements
What version Windows is required?
I saw Share Point- how does this interact or how can Project Server interact
with:
Office (2007 or other)
Visual Studio created applications (visual basic, etc. SQL server databases)
Groove
.NET Framework 3.0
Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation
Office Collaboration and “business ready†capabilities
I see that you can export to Excel, etc. This is the same as now. How does
this Project Server make possible more that just sharing information by
exporting to another stand alone program. (in other words, the collaboration
type capabilities)
If Project Server can be part of the type of things that a business would do
to have the collaboration or “business ready†capability described in the
Microsoft publicity – what ties it together with the other stuff. Is it Share
Point or something else.
What are the costs?
Besides the “collaboration†possibilities, what advancement does this offer
with regard to MS Project capabilities itself from the stand alone Project
software we have on our hard drives now?
What kind of hardware is required to host the Project Server software. Is it
on a company server with individual client copies of MS Project software on
people’s hard drives. What kind of company server system is needed? How much
storage, performance, etc capability is required for the hardware server and
what kinds of hardware server operating system software does this run on?
Does it have to be Windows or Microsoft if the company should happen to have
a company server running on UNIX or Linux?
What is Project Portfolio Server?
A company promoting a competing product “ValleySpeak Project Server†says
that
“Microsoft Project Server is complicated to install and use, expensive and
generally too high end for many workgroups. Though feature rich, it is an
enterprise software product that requires a large commitment in order to
implement appropriately.â€
“ValleySpeak Project Server - Easier and less expensive to implement than
Microsoft Project Server Purchasing Microsoft Project Server is the second
alternative. This application is cumbersome in nature, difficult to use and
expensive to implement because it requires significant expertise in order to
function properly. “
What would Microsoft company people say about that. What might the
ValleySpeak people mean by “large commitmentâ€. Would this concern about
“large commitment†be mitigated in a medium-size or large company where there
is a group of IT staff – in other words is this comment possibly more
pertinent for smaller businesses that might not have the required IT staff
and not much of a concern in a large business that is already doing similar
efforts to support current systems? Also, would this concern be washed away
by the ability of Microsoft Project Server to collaborate with other things
like Share Point, Office, etc.?
I am not clear on what it is about the relationship between Project Server
to the standalone Project software we have know, i.e. what is the purpose of
Project Server and why is it needed? To phrase that another way, we have
stand alone programs of all types, (Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
Access, Info Path), and users do exchange information between each other with
Excel, Word, etc. yet there is no such thing as Excel server, Word server,
etc. There are the applications now such as Share Point, Exchange, etc that
are efforts to tie stuff together into workplace collaboration, so I am now
confused about what Project Server is and why collaboration among users of
Microsoft Project is not handled through the other means such as Share Point.
Is it possibly because Project is a much more structured piece of software
that does certain things whereas Excel and Word are free form applications
that can be whatever the user or group of users want them to be, and thus the
nature of Project lent itself to there being a benefit to having a “Serverâ€
application specifically for Project that can tie groups of users’ efforts
together?
Thanks again,
these I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Are we talking software only here?
If so, what are the hardware server requirements
What version Windows is required?
I saw Share Point- how does this interact or how can Project Server interact
with:
Office (2007 or other)
Visual Studio created applications (visual basic, etc. SQL server databases)
Groove
.NET Framework 3.0
Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation
Office Collaboration and “business ready†capabilities
I see that you can export to Excel, etc. This is the same as now. How does
this Project Server make possible more that just sharing information by
exporting to another stand alone program. (in other words, the collaboration
type capabilities)
If Project Server can be part of the type of things that a business would do
to have the collaboration or “business ready†capability described in the
Microsoft publicity – what ties it together with the other stuff. Is it Share
Point or something else.
What are the costs?
Besides the “collaboration†possibilities, what advancement does this offer
with regard to MS Project capabilities itself from the stand alone Project
software we have on our hard drives now?
What kind of hardware is required to host the Project Server software. Is it
on a company server with individual client copies of MS Project software on
people’s hard drives. What kind of company server system is needed? How much
storage, performance, etc capability is required for the hardware server and
what kinds of hardware server operating system software does this run on?
Does it have to be Windows or Microsoft if the company should happen to have
a company server running on UNIX or Linux?
What is Project Portfolio Server?
A company promoting a competing product “ValleySpeak Project Server†says
that
“Microsoft Project Server is complicated to install and use, expensive and
generally too high end for many workgroups. Though feature rich, it is an
enterprise software product that requires a large commitment in order to
implement appropriately.â€
“ValleySpeak Project Server - Easier and less expensive to implement than
Microsoft Project Server Purchasing Microsoft Project Server is the second
alternative. This application is cumbersome in nature, difficult to use and
expensive to implement because it requires significant expertise in order to
function properly. “
What would Microsoft company people say about that. What might the
ValleySpeak people mean by “large commitmentâ€. Would this concern about
“large commitment†be mitigated in a medium-size or large company where there
is a group of IT staff – in other words is this comment possibly more
pertinent for smaller businesses that might not have the required IT staff
and not much of a concern in a large business that is already doing similar
efforts to support current systems? Also, would this concern be washed away
by the ability of Microsoft Project Server to collaborate with other things
like Share Point, Office, etc.?
I am not clear on what it is about the relationship between Project Server
to the standalone Project software we have know, i.e. what is the purpose of
Project Server and why is it needed? To phrase that another way, we have
stand alone programs of all types, (Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
Access, Info Path), and users do exchange information between each other with
Excel, Word, etc. yet there is no such thing as Excel server, Word server,
etc. There are the applications now such as Share Point, Exchange, etc that
are efforts to tie stuff together into workplace collaboration, so I am now
confused about what Project Server is and why collaboration among users of
Microsoft Project is not handled through the other means such as Share Point.
Is it possibly because Project is a much more structured piece of software
that does certain things whereas Excel and Word are free form applications
that can be whatever the user or group of users want them to be, and thus the
nature of Project lent itself to there being a benefit to having a “Serverâ€
application specifically for Project that can tie groups of users’ efforts
together?
Thanks again,