Product Description

Second Edition includes functional updates through Service Pack 2, and is a complete guide to implementing and configuring a Microsoft EPM solution using Microsoft Project Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Project Professional 2007. This book provides you with systematic deployment and configuration guidance for creating and maintaining your Project Server configuration and Project Server environment. Taking a building-block approach to the topical ordering in this book, it begins with two modules that provide an overview of the non-technical and technical challenges to implementing Project Server. Module 3 provides a complete start-to-finish deployment guide and a template that takes you through forming your deployment team and determining your organizational requirements to designing and implementing a configuration to meet your requirements. The two modules that follow walk you through installing and configuring SharePoint and Project Server as well as configuring Analysis Services, SQL backups, and your desktops. The next nine modules show you how to configure the Project Server environment, while the final two modules cover day-to-day operations for maintaining Project Server and Windows SharePoint Server. Throughout each module, you get a generous amount of Notes, Warnings, and Best Practices. Notes call your attention to important additional information about a subject. Warnings help you avoid the most common problems experienced by others and Best Practices provide tips for using the tool based on our field experience. With this book by your side, you can confidently deploy and manage the Microsoft EPM environment.