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• Reporting - Report Improvements
• Timeline - Timeline View
  
  • Report on selected tasks in timeline format. Format online. Shares easily
  • A clearer view of tasks, milestones and phases. Expanded color palettes and text effects help you make every timeline visually effective to see and share important dates and deliverables. Easily view high level timeline, with user selected tasks and milestone
  • Allows you to easily create a high level view of your project plan that you can then share through other Office applications such as PowerPoint and Outlook. Drag the date line to zoom, show tasks within the timeline or call them out above, and of course once you are done, you can copy to past in an email or Microsoft Office product such as PowerPoint or Word.
  • It portrays key schedule information in a powerful and intuitive graphical manner. You decide which tasks are included in the timeline so it can be used to communicate specific schedule information to people who may not understand a Gantt chart.
  • Add selected phases, tasks, or milestones to a visual timeline, similar to the Visio timeline feature.The Timeline area displays in a simple view the key phases and milestones associated with a Project Schedule. This feature is beneficial for quickly showing everyone the high-level view of the project and its deliverables. You can easily add to the Timeline by right-clicking a Task or Milestone, and choosing Add To Timeline.
  • You can pick which tasks from your project show up in the Timeline. It allows you to create presentation ready depictions of important tasks that you can show to management or customers without having to show a Gantt chart. Project 2010 lets me put this graphic into other programs such as an email or a PowerPoint so I can show just these tasks in a very easy to understand format.
  • Steps to create Timeline view
    
    • Add Tasks - Simply right-click the tasks you want on the Timeline and select "Add to Timeline”.
    • Arrange Tasks-Now you can easily re-arrange tasks. You can drag tasks above/below/up/down.
    • Format the Tasks-After arranging tasks, through the Timeline’s Format tab format the tasks e.g. update the date format, set text lines to show, and highlighted some tasks with different colors.
    • Share the Timeline-Finally, you can paste the Timeline into other Office applications such as PowerPoint and Outlook by clicking Copy Timeline on the Format tab and selecting the proper size. When you paste the Timeline view, the items are pasted as individual Office Art shapes, so you can further format the shapes using the graphics power of those applications.
• Integration & Synchronization
  
  • Office Suite integration - Able to use items like WordArt
  • SharePoint
    
    • The Project 2010 Client comes with the ability to update SharePoint — WSS or MOSS — including two way synchronization.
    • Publish Project schedule directly from Project Professional to WSS site and collaborate with Team Members on Task status. Ideal workgroup collaboration solution with or without Project Server.
• Resource Management
  
  • Resource Selection - Select multiple resources from the drop down at one time
  • Incremental / Granular Leveling -Additional features are available to perform resource workload balancing on an individual resource or task basis, yielding more controlled and predictable results.
• Versioning

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• Scheduling - User-Controlled Scheduling
  
  • Free form scheduling
  • Tasks can now be created and ignored by the built-in scheduling engine, allowing you to manually enter start dates, finish dates, durations... or none of the above.
  • The project manager can have complete control over the task schedule. He can easily switch between manual and auto scheduling –
    
    • Automatic scheduling - Project's powerful scheduling engine to help forecast the date of a task based on various factors like dependencies, calendar, constraints, etc.
    • Manual Scheduling - meaning that you have complete control over task dates. The Start, Finish & Duration fields are blank. When tasks are in this "Manually Scheduled" mode, Project will not automatically calculate and fill in dates for you.
  • Using Project 2010, tasks do not need to be fully defined - you can leave duration or dates as blank or even type text into those fields. This lets you easily capture uncertainties when planning. This provides a visual way of indicating buffer time in schedule.
  • The ‘schedule-checker’ highlights potential problems with the schedule. At any point in time you can switch from manual control, you can toggle your tasks to "Automatically Scheduled" mode. When tasks are "Auto Scheduled", Project will calculate and update their dates automatically.
• Tasks Management
  
  • Inactive Tasks – Individual or groups of tasks can be marked as inactive, allowing you to cancel work or simulate multiple scenarios in the schedule
  • Task Inspector
    
    • An improvement on the task driver feature of Project 2007 with a lot more contextual information presented to the user in an easily understood interface.
    • Includes additional information such as scheduling alerts and advice for tasks in the project schedule.
  • Scheduling
    
    • Use Manual/Automatic scheduling of Task. Be in control of how your tasks are scheduled.
    • Manually-scheduled Tasks - Tasks can now be created and ignored by the built-in scheduling engine, allowing you to manually enter start dates, finish dates, durations... or none of the above.
    • Top-down Summary Tasks - A variation of manually-scheduled tasks in which summary tasks (a.k.a. phases) can be estimated and manually entered into the project schedule without sub-task details.
  • Resource Assignment
    
    • Resource managing at-a-glance - See the right mix of people and resources — simply drag and drop to effectively plan tasks for your entire team and project.
    • Quickly solve problems by identifying unscheduled or unassigned tasks and be visually alerted to potential problems.
    • Assign multiple resources to tasks
  • Supports Total Work and Percent Complete tracking
  • create simple task/milestone dependencies
  • Sync to SharePoint –
    
    • The ability to synchronize a tasks list between Project and SharePoint. Users can now publish a project plan from Project to SharePoint and vice versa. Any changes made in Project / SharePoint can be easily updated into SharePoint / Project with the click of a button.
    • Summary tasks are supported in the synchronization• Most custom fields can be synchronized, and can be added via the Manage Fields dialog
    • This feature only works with SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010• This feature only works when Project Professional is not connected to the server
    • Easy collaboration with teams that do not have access to Project Server.
  
  
• Team Management - Team Planner
  
  • Quickly view assignments across resources. Easily see your team’s work laid out over time . Each team member’s work is represented in a single row, making it easy to glance across the timescale and see who does what when
  • Easily manage assignments
  • A powerful graphical way to depict the workload of your team and to then manipulate assignments to smooth the demand on your people. This graphical view of resources can help Project Managers visualize the allocation of resources to activities, and more easily work to resolve issues of over allocation.
  • Team Planner view gives you the opportunity to re-schedule or re-allocate work by simply clicking and dragging bars to clear windows of time.
  • Easily resolve resource over allocation, allocation on single of multiple projects.
  • A row for each resource with each of their task assignments shown in the timescale area. Overallocations for the time period are highlighted in red. Automatically resolving overallocations
  • A visual resource assignment planning tool that allows you to view and manipulate assignments through a drag & drop interface. Now you can grab a task and move it to another date or even move it down and drop it into another resource’s row and assign it to him.
  • Team Planner is combining the power of the Gantt chart with the simplicity and familiarity of the Outlook calendar.
  • Easily see your team’s work laid out over time .Quickly spot problems .Drag and drop to resolve those problems
  • The unassigned and unscheduled zones
  • Updating your status directly in the view
  • Customizing the look and feel of the view: colors, sizing, hiding sections, filtering, grouping
  • Seeing/editing more details through tooltips, right-click, double click, and split views

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• Product
  
  • Two versions of the Product
    
    • Project Standard 2010
    • Project Professional 2010
  • Runs on Windows 7, Vista and XP
  • 32 and 64bit client applications available.
• User Interface
  
  • Fluent User Interface–
    
    • Ribbon - User Interface similar to Office 2007 apps (Excel, Word etc) . Project 2010 has adopted the new extensible ribbon menu interface that Microsoft introduced in Office 2007
    • Backstage Area - Backstage area that has many features from the old MSProject 'File' menu and the Office menu from the Office 2007 suite
    • Ribboned toolbars
    • Grouping of macros - Project’s extensive capabilities are now organized into logical, easy to find groups that help you accomplish actions efficiently rather than choosing features.
    • The Ribbon replaces menus and toolbars as the main location to find functionality organized to help you accomplish tasks.Provides more graphical and contextual information by combining the menu and toolbars. which shows those commands used most often with a larger icon.
    • Organizes common tasks together
    • The new Ribbon UI makes commands easier to discover based on the task you are doing at the time.The UI shows only relevant commands depending on what you’re viewing, such as the Gantt Chart Tools tab that appears at the right because of the active Gantt Chart view.
    • You can even customize the Ribbon so that it contains exactly what you want to see where you want to see it. Makes for a highly customizable interface
  • Copy and Paste
    
    • People can now easily copy information between MS Project 2010 and other MS Office applications while maintaining formatting and structure / indenting.
    • The ability to cut, copy and paste your timeline view in PowerPoint or Outlook as a real image.
    • Improved copy and paste from Excel! Setup your work structure in Excel and simple copy and paste in to Project 2010.it retains the hierarchy.
  • Excel-like Behaviors
    
    • The interface is more like MS Excel with scheduling.
    • Microsoft Project now includes Excel-like interface features such as current row / current column highlighting, text wrapping, and built-in auto filtering
    • Filter Improvements - Introducing AutoFilter - Now from the column header you can sort, filter on, and group by the field.
      
      • Sorting: Depending on the type of field, you can sort alphabetically, numerically, or chronologically.
      • Group By: You can select to group explicitly on the field, or group on an interval specific to the field type.
      • Filters: While you can easily use the checkboxes to select which values to display.
      • AutoFilter is on by default in Project 2010. If you aren’t seeing it, you can turn it on by going to View tab – Filter dropdown – and selecting Display AutoFilter.
      • The Status Bar displays “AutoFilter Applied” and if you hover over it, you can see which fields are affected:
  • Auto-Complete
  • Zoom slider-Zoom in and out rather than clicking “+” or “-“
  • Add new columns easily
  • Office Backstage
    
    • Puts printing options in one place – gives a WYSIWYG preview
    • Replaces the “file” view

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• Project Server Interface
  
  • The PSI (Project Server Interface) is enhanced.It doesn’t replace the old version, so custom PSI should still work
  • Project Server Interface (PSI) includes Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX) 2.0
• Field Enhancement
  
  • Custom Fields enhancements
  • Can create fields by “Department”
• User Interface
  
  • NO ACTIVE X CONTROLS - Grids are now Ajax or JavaScript
  • No Office Web Components (OWC)
  • Multiple level Undo
  • Ribbon (Fluent User Interface (UI))–
  • Copy and Paste
  • Powerful new views
  • Client side and server side ribbon
• Development & Administration
  
  • Improved Programmability
  • Simplify deployment and extend interoperability
  • Easier deployment and rollout of client apps.
  • Simplified administration; unity of Project Server and Portfolio Server
  • Delegation
    
    • Delegation now allows people to update on behalf of colleagues, in effect a manager can delegate to a colleague responsibility for performing their role on a project for a limited time period. This feature allows individuals and teams to “self manage” situations where key players are out of the loop, for example when people are away at a conference or on vacation. It eliminates the need to request changes by those with Administrative responsibilities for Project Server.
    • Allows resources to “request” delegation
    • Lessens load on the Admins
  • Delegate your project(s)/responsibilities to another user say when you are on leave.
  • Windows PowerShell can be used with Microsoft Project Server 2010 to perform both simple and complex administrative tasks.
  • Centralized administration
• Scheduling on the Server

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• Business Intelligence & Reporting
  
  • Enhanced Reporting and Business Intelligence - Use Project Server 2010 to create powerful dashboards and drill down reporting. Users can create and modify reports on the fly with Project Server 2010.
  • Reporting is significantly enhanced with not only OLAP based reporting but now also Excel Services based reporting. All Project Server reporting is now handled by Excel Services in SharePoint Server. The new version of Excel Services, which underlies all Project Server reporting capabilities.
  • OLAP Update
    
    • Multiple OLAP Database support enables the administrator to configure, customize and provision OLAP databases based on the particular needs of the target audience.
    • An OLAP database’s data can be filtered based on a combination of date range, Project Department and Resource Department.
    • We can specify which data elements are included in a OLAP database. The ability to add or remove custom fields as dimensions and measures is an easy operation. For intrinsic data such as baselines and cost data, you can exclude the data from the OLAP database.you can also easily exclude inactive task from the OLAP data.you can add your own calculated measures to the database via the user interface.
  • Reporting Database - A number of new data elements added to the Reporting database.
    
    • Now it is possible to create report using Timesheet administrative time data and timesheet custom field’s data.
    • Much richer view of logged time, planned vacation time or planned training time.
    • Included portfolio and workflow data.
    • Project properties are now populated into the Reporting database.
  • Excel Based Reporting – Excel used as a BI data visualization tool. Excel make it easier for end users to extend the solution with creating new reports or assembling reports into a dashboard. you can use Excel reports to share information, either by email, SharePoint or aggregating a number of reports into a dashboard.
  • New Business Intelligence Center -This new website is created beneath PWA to house Excel, SSRS and Performance Point content. This enables a one stop shop for all BI needs.
  • Pre Connected Templates & Reports
    
    • Excel reports - Provide some pre-configured and pre-connected reports which can be used as dashboard components or as report starters to build your own version. E.g. Timesheet Actual report
    • Reporting Database Templates - Provide pre-connected blank templates for report creation over the Reporting database. These templates focus on key entities within Project Server. This makes it much easier to create quick reports on these specific items. The templates are: Dependent Projects ,Issues ,Project And Assignments ,Projects And Tasks ,Resources ,Risks ,Timesheet
    • Template for OLAP Databases - When an administrator builds a new OLAP database, Project Server 2010 will automatically create a pre-connected blank template for each of the 14 cubes. This makes it easy for a user to create reports quickly. These templates include: OlapAssignmentNonTimephased , OlapAssignmentTimephased , OlapDeliverables , OlapEpmTimesheet , OlapIssues , OlapPortfolioAnalyzer , OlapProjectNonTimephased , OlapProjectSharePoint , OlapProjectTimesheet , OlapResourceNonTimephased , OlapResourceTimephased , OlapRisks , OlapTaskNonTimephased , OlapTimesheet
  • In addition to the templates, an Office Data Connection library is created and pre-populated. These connections are used by the templates and sample reports, and these remove the need for the user to know the server name, database name and SQL. In all cases, users can copy and modify these files to extend the reporting to meet their own needs.
  • Multi-lingual support. For each language pack installed on the server, a folder with the requisite templates for each language will be generated.
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• Timesheet & Task Management
  
  • Timesheet Enhancements
  • Tasks can be put on hold, useful if you are weighing up your options or looking to revise the scope of your project. Inactive tasks can always be reactivated in the future should the need arise which is a lot better than deleting and then reinstating tasks.
  • Time Tracking–
    
    • Integrated task statusing/timesheets
    • New Task Status Grid
      
      • client-like ribbon
      • clean left navigation menu
      • splitter bar
      • ability to reorder columns, hide/reveal columns and do custom sorts
    • Timesheets update
      
      • Moved the “Timesheet Center” to “Manage Timesheets”, so with a minimum of clicks we can create/load the timesheet for the period.
      • Timesheet page has the same grid technology as the Tasks page, The two grids behave a little differently:
        
        • Timesheet shows only late tasks and tasks with work planned in the period; Tasks shows all of a Team Member’s tasks plus those tasks where they are the assignment owner.
        • They also behave differently due to the differences in workflow between task update approval and timesheet approval.
      • Status Bar – Inform the team Member what to do next as well as displaying some global state such as the total hours and the period range.
      • Single Entry Mode (SEM) – it can be set on or off by the Administrator and governs the integration between timesheet and project task assignment data. When SEM is on the task update data automatically flows into the Timesheet and onto the Project wherever it is edited, until such time as the timesheet is sent for final timesheet manager approval. If SEM is on, then changes to task assignments are sent for approval to the Task Status Manager, and you can optionally hold back timesheet approval until all task updates are approved.
    • Approval Center
      
      • Integrated approval - approvals process faster by presenting all the approvals in a single dialog.
      • There is a Timesheet approval mixed in with task updates.
    • Exchange and Outlook Integration
      
      • The Team Member uses an Exchange client (Outlook or Outlook Web Access) and updates their tasks – any work entered is auto-submitted to the Task Status Manager, making this the simplest of the Time Tracking options. Using Import or Single Entry Mode the data will arrive in the timesheet where it can be tidied up and then sent for approval.
      • No Outlook addins required

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• Workflow
  
  • Enterprise Project Types – this feature extends the potential of templates by also allowing differing workflows to be associated with different project types.
  • User configurable Workflows to manage your project lifecycle
  • Enhanced governance through workflow
  • The Project Server workflow platform is built on the SharePoint 2010 workflow platform, which in turn is based on the Windows Workflow Foundation.
  • Workflow is a key component of demand management.
  • A Project Server workflow runs on a Project Web Access site and helps to manage a sequence of activities or alternate sets of activities related to project management such as Check Project Custom Field Value and Publish Project.
  • Project Server 2010 workflows use the Site workflow paradigm, which removes the restriction that a WSS workflow can be started only on a list item. Project Server workflows are deployed to Project Web Access, and workflow instances can be run only as a project entity.
  • Project Server workflows must be created in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Project Server workflows cannot be created from Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010.
  • The administration of Project Server workflows is identical to managing any other Windows SharePoint Services 2010 workflow. Workflow instances are created when a project is created and are deleted when the project is deleted/completed/rejected.
  • Unlike in WSS, a user does not start a workflow instance from the administration page.
  • Workflows are associated with stages. PDPs are not referenced within the workflow. The PDPs simply act as containers to hold or display data. The workflow can however, references custom fields in the Web Parts.
    
• Resource Management
  
  • Resource Updating -Multiple places for resources to update their tasks now
  • Resource Capacity Planning
• Integration & Synchronization
  
  • SharePoint synchronization
  • Increased collaboration
  • Exchange Server:
    
    • Team members can look and manage their tasks and statuses from Outlook, and mobile users can access their schedules and provide updates using Outlook Exchange for Mobile or Outlook Web Access
    • Replace the Outlook add-in with Exchange Server integration
  • Team Foundation Server
    
    • Development teams can continue to work within TFS on tasks and assignments and have updates synchronized with Project
    • Valuable for Application Lifecycle Management integrating Team Foundation Server
  • MS Dynamic - Out of the box integration with AX (ERP) and SL, so that SMBs can extend Project accounting applications
  • Portfolio Server - Integration of Portfolio Server into the Project Server environment (single system versus two separately deployed products for 2007)

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• Portfolio & Project Management
  
  • Web-based project editing
  • Unified Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) - Project Server unifies project and portfolio management capabilities in a single server providing a consistent user experience, common data store and centralized administration. It provides powerful new portfolio prioritization and selection analytics, project capture and initiation, and resource capacity planning.
  • Enterprise Project Types – this feature extends the potential of templates by also allowing differing workflows to be associated with different project types.
  • Departmentalization - Manage your business projects, resources and reporting by department/division/unit! this feature means that you can create projects where the custom fields are specific to a particular area of the business – for example an R&D project could report against totally different criteria to a project being undertaken by the HR or sales functions of an organization.
  • Portfolio Analysis - In Project Server 2010, a rich set of new Portfolio Strategy features are now available in the core Project Server product serving to more closely unify project and portfolio management
    
    • UI is now SharePoint-based, making these features easier to use and provides visual consistency with the rest of the app
    • A gateway linking the Portfolio Server product is no longer required, everything resides with one product
    • Full API support now available for these features via the Project Server Interface (PSI), and some integration with the Reporting Database (RDB).
    • Resource Analysis–
      
      • Enables portfolio-level project scheduling and analysis based on organizational resource availability.
      • The Resource Plan feature can be used to specify high-level project resource requirements to be fed into the new Resource Analysis feature.
      • The new Resource Analysis feature helps you identify gaps in demand vs. availability, favoring higher priority projects for selection.
    • Organizations define and prioritize their strategic objectives, or business drivers.
    • Cost Analysis
      
      • Costs and resource requirements are assigned to each project proposal, and a proposal’s impact on each business driver is rated, generating relative project value/priority score across a portfolio.
      • The Portfolio Cost Constraint Analysis engine selects projects that yield the most value with the lowest cost, while the Resource Constraint Analysis feature chooses higher priority projects based on resource availability within a planning period’s timeline.
      • Given a limited budget, the Cost Analysis algorithm will select a portfolio that maximizes strategic value while minimizing cost
  
  
• Demand Management
  
  • Demand Management is about capturing all work proposals in one single place, taking these proposals through a multi-stage governance process, making decisions on which proposals to approve and tracking progress on their execution until the work is completed. A key component within Demand Management is the Workflow governance model.
  • The Demand management functionality in Microsoft Project Server 2010 is designed to be both flexible and usable. It has a full-fledged governance workflow behind it.
  • Demand management Project Life cycle - A project lifecycle is a long-running process that spans various governance phases like create, select, plan, and manage. Within each phase are stages. Each stage can have an associated project detail page (PDP) in Project Web Access (PWA). The entire collection of stages represents a single workflow that can be linked to an enterprise project template (EPT).
    
    • Enterprise Project Type (EPT) - represents a wrapper that encapsulates phases, stages, a single workflow, and PDPs. Normally, project types are aligned with individual departments, e.g. Marketing/IT/HR projects. Using project types helps to categorize projects within the same organization that have a similar project life cycle.
    • Phases - Represent a collection of stages grouped together to identify a common set of activities in the project life cycle. Examples project creation, selection, and management. Phases provide a option of organizing stages into logical groups.
    • Stages - Represents one step, where data is manipulated before move to the next step, within a project lifecycle. A stage is composed of one or more project detail pages (PDPs) linked by common logic or theme. At each step, data must be entered, modified, reviewed, or processed.
    • Project Detail Pages (PDP) -A PDP represents a single Web Part Page in Project Web Access, used to display or collect information from the user.
    • Webpart - Project Server Web Parts and custom Web Parts used in demand management all contain custom fields. Web Parts can make calls to the PSI, query the reporting database, or integrate with external systems.
  • Governance Workflow - Workflow models the governance processes and provides a structured way for projects to proceed through the phases. Workflows are captured and integrated within the demand management feature set, providing a rich and dynamic platform. A governance workflow is all about creating a rich life cycle for any proposal/demand that comes into the system. It includes
    
    • defining the various stages through which the project goes in its lifecycle
    • Determining what information is required or locked at what stage including any manual approval/notifications steps as necessary and adding any business logic to update other Line of Business Systems.

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• Product
  
  • ‘Office’ is dropped from the name, currently referred to as Microsoft Project Server 2010
  • Backward compatibility. We can use Project Professional 2007 with Project Server 2010.
  • It no longer uses ActiveX, meaning you don’t have to touch desktops for upgrades and updates.
  • Project Server now requires SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise rather than just SharePoint Foundation (WSS). This gives us access to all the features such as Excel Services for reporting, Performance Point Services for Business Intelligence, the great improvements in ULS logging.
  • Project Server 2010 will be 64-bit only
  
  
• System Requirement & Installation
  
  • SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
  • 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
    
    
  • Browser
    
    • Project Server 2010 will only support Internet Explorer 7 or 8 (IE 6 will not be supported nor other browsers)
    • IE ONLY is supported by Project Server 2010. Sharepoint Server will be supporting "other" browsers (Firefox and Safari) but it does not appear that cross-browser support will be in Project.
    
    
  • Installation –
    
    • The automated installation routine now performs most of the server prerequisite configuration and component gathering and implementation. New Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2010 Preparation Tool will configures the application server.it reaches out to Microsoft download sites to gather all of the additional software then it installs them for you.
    • Project Server now slips into the SharePoint envelope as a service. Once you run the SharePoint configuration wizard for your Project Server/SharePoint Server installation, you now manage Project Server and Project Server 2010 sites just like you'd manage any other SharePoint application. You no longer need Shared Service Providers
    
    
  
  
• Web Based Editing
  
  • Ability to do a lot of work on the server that used to be client only
  • Create and manage projects using PWA i.e. without Project Professional .Edit even projects created from Project Professional.
  • The ability to create projects, edit the plan, assign resources to tasks, and publish the plan, all from the browser.
  • you can move effortlessly back and forth between editing projects in the browser and in the desktop client. This allows users to have the convenience of a browser based project editing solution together with the power of the desktop client.
  • Web based project editing has been implemented in JavaScript and HTML so all you need is a browser, no ActiveX controls or any other plugin required.
  • You are able to perform actions like linking, indenting and marking tasks as complete.
  • Users will be able to edit task names, assign resources and enter various project fields like start date & end date. The “status bar” displays information about the current project plan you are working on. e.g checked out date , plan version.
  • PWA can detect typo and inform user about this error while continuing to allow to make edits.
  • More rich web-based editing
  • Task Hierarchy and Indent/Outdent support in the browser.
  • support for Multi-Level Undo as well as Cut/Copy & Paste right in your browser
  • Flexible View Manipulation in PWA.
  • browser based support for Multi-Resource Assignment
  • Rapid entry
  • Asynchronous editing, validation & error handling
  • Fluent User Interface
  • User Controlled Scheduling
  • Change Highlighting
  • Keyboard Shortcut Support
  • Flexible View Manipulation
  • High Fidelity Gantt Charts
  • Grouping
  • Support for Large Projects
  
  

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Source - Project Server 2010 Resources

Project Server 2010 Resources

• Public Beta Download
  
  • Beta 2010 Products
    http://microsoft.com/2010
  • Project server 2010 & Project Professional 2010
    http://www.microsoft.com/project/2010/en/us/default.aspx
  • Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee410540(en-us).aspx
  • Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee404758(en-us).aspx
  • Project 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK)
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=46007f25-b44e-4aa6-80ff-9c0e75835ad9&displaylang=en
• H/w & s/w Requirement
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee683978(office.14).aspx
• Setup and Migration Documentation
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197280(office.14).aspx
• Project Server 2010 Overview
  http://www.microsoft.com/global/project/2010/en/us/RichMedia/secondary/project_server_overview.html
• What’s New in Project Server 2010
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/6/B/F6B54B8B-8E94-48F9-A4E8-5D6295480ED1/whats_new_server.pdf
• Microsoft Project Server 2010 Install, Upgrade, Operate.
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/projectserver/ee263909.aspx
• Project Developer Center:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905469.aspx
• SDK Online:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms512767(office.14).aspx
• SDK Download:
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=46007f25-b44e-4aa6-80ff-9c0e75835ad9&displaylang=en
• What’s New for Developers in Project 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee767690(office.14).aspx
• Project Server Architecture and Programmability
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms420315(office.14).aspx
• Workflow and Demand Management
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee767704(office.14).aspx
• Custom Fields in Project 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee767683(office.14).aspx
• VBA Object Model Changes
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms448515(office.14).aspx
• Tables of VBA Object Model Changes
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms474284(office.14).aspx
• Overview of WCF and the PSI
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee767684(office.14).aspx
• Developing Project Server Workflows
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee767694(office.14).aspx
• Walkthrough: Developing PSI Applications Using WCF
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee767691(office.14).aspx
• PSI Reference Overview
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms488627(office.14).aspx
• Project Server 2010 Class Library and Web Service Reference
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee767707(office.14).aspx
• Videos
  
  • Deploy Project Server – Single Application Server Farm
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169126
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169127
  • Deploy Project Server – Multi Application Server Farm
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169128
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169129
  • Create Project Web Access Site:
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169130
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169131
  • Configure Reporting:
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169132
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169133
  • Add an Application Server to a Project Server Farm:
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169134
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169135
  • Sharepoint & EPM 2010 Videos
    http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/4d8af230-4c1a-4e93-8bad-7926c9ab1657
  • Virtual Lab: Project 2010
    https://cmg.vlabcenter.com/default.aspx?moduleid=2a6249b4-12f3-456d-a6ab-a92249241108
    
  • Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta - Virtual Machine
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e709e2e-c9a1-4c7e-90d6-a52bcc8e5daf&displaylang=en
    

Microsoft Product 2010 beta Download Links

Microsoft has released Beta version of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010 for download.Start location -
http://microsoft.com/2010

for direct downloads:

SharePoint 2010 Beta Developer Center


SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit


Project server 2010 & Project Professional 2010


Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta

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Microsoft SharePoint Server Enterprise 2010 Beta

Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta


Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta


Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (32-bit)


Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (64-bit)

SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Windows SharePoint Services 2010 Beta)


Visio 2010


Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2

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SHarepoint 2010(Beta) Virtual Machine (VHD) download link


Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 Beta

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Sharepoint 2010 (RTM) & Project Server 2010 (RTM) Virtual Machine (VHD) download link