Each student will follow the instructor and complete hands-on exercises on their own computer workstation that is pre-loaded with the Microsoft Office 2010 application suite and Microsoft Project Professional 2010, and is connected to their own live independent Project Server 2010 training system. Each student will configure their own Project Server 2010 environment and follow the same steps that they would follow if they were configuring and administering a live production system.

This is a public, open enrollment training course, and there typically are students from various companies and industries in the same class. Because of this diversity, class discussions often include a wide variety of comments, questions, and student experiences to supplement the standard material covered in the course.

Introduction and Deployment Overview - Review Project Server's main features and terminology; review how Project Managers, Resource Managers, Team Members, and Executives use Project Server on a day-to-day basis; Review a recommended process for deploying Project Server within an organization.

Technical and Installation Overview - Review the technical requirements for installing Project Server; Review the Project Server installation process.

Using the Project Web App (PWA) Interface - Learn how to open Project Web App (PWA) web site, navigate through its interface, and use the main features of the interface, including the 'Server Settings' administration area.

Using the Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Interface - Learn how to open Project Professional desktop software, navigate through its interface, and connect it to Project Server.

Creating and Managing Enterprise Data Fields - Learn how to create and update Project, Task, and Resource enterprise custom data fields, including simple fields for free text entry, fields with pick lists, and fields which are calculated with a formula; learn how to create custom Lookup Tables; learn how to attach Graphical Indicators to a custom data field to visualize data.

Creating and Managing Enterprise Calendars - Learn how to create and update custom enterprise working calendars to be used throughout the system, including work weeks, daily working hours, non-working time exceptions, and recurring events.

Creating and Managing Enterprise Resources and Users - Learn how to create and update enterprise Work, Material, and Cost resources to be used on all projects in the system, including their attributes such as cost rates, working calendars, and other custom attributes; learn how to create Generic and Team enterprise resources; learn how to automatically add users to the system through Active Directory synchronization.

Configuring and Managing Task and Time Tracking - Learn how to enable and configure all aspects of time tracking in Project Server, including timesheet periods, administrative time categories, and synchronization between timesheets and task updates; learn how to set the tracking method for task progress and other behaviors of the task tracking workflow.

Importing Enterprise Project Schedules and Templates - Learn how to import local Microsoft Project schedules into Project Server; learn how to save a project schedule as a template for reuse on future projects; learn how to transfer ownership of a project.

Configuring and Managing the PWA Interface - Learn how to create and update data views used throughout the PWA interface; learn how to manipulate the PWA Quick Launch menu.

Configuring and Managing the Project Professional Interface - Learn how to create and update data views, tables, filters, and groups used in the Project Professional interface; learn how to save the views, tables, filters, and groups to allow all Project Professional users access to them.

Creating and Managing Project Sites and Templates - Learn how to control the provisioning of Project Sites in Project Server to allow for tracking of Risks, Issues, Documents, and Deliverables on all projects; learn how to manage existing Project Sites and configure the structure, behaviors, and appearance of those sites.

Creating and Managing Enterprise Project Types - Learn how to create Project Detail Pages for capturing and displaying project information in the system; learn how to encapsulate a project schedule template, a Project Site template, and Project Detail Pages into a custom Enterprise Project Type in Project Server.

Creating and Managing Excel Reports and Dashboards - Learn how to configure and build an OLAP database; learn how to access the built-in sample reports, report templates, and data connection files to create custom Excel-based enterprise reports in the Project Server Business Intelligence Center; learn how to create a SharePoint-based dashboard report to display multiple collections of information on a single web page.

Configuring and Managing Security - Learn how to configure Users, Groups, and Categories in Project Server to grant access to the features and data that people need based on their role; learn how to add people automatically to their respective security Groups through Active Directory synchronization.

Configuring other Application Settings - Learn how to configure other application settings such as e-mail notifications, server currency settings, and resource capacity calculations.

Completing Day-to-Day Administrative Tasks - Learn how to back up and restore projects and other configuration items with the Project Server Archive database; learn how to check in projects for other Project Server users; learn how to delete Projects, Resources, and other types of items from Project Server; learn how to use the Project Server Queue for troubleshooting system issues.