Microsoft Vision: Project Portfolio Management

This is a brief summary from the Project 2014 Conference in Anaheim, CA Feb 2014. This is really about consolidating Microsoft assets: Project online, Office 365, SQL Servers, Azure, Project Apps and so on and how they are going to play out in the future.

Details of Project Online here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project/

                
There is a 1 hour long marathon video on the following site detailing the road map for project portfolio management:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Project/2014/KEY002
Here are some screen shots:

 

 

 

 

 

No project without reporting!

 

Also watch this SSRS Report Enabler for Project Online by Project Hosts here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10tDxtla3NI
 

Easy to follow no-nonsense books on Reporting Services:

 

 

http://www.packtpub.com/learning-sql-server-2008-reporting-services/book

 

 

http://www.packtpub.com/learning-sql-server-reporting-services-2012/book

Backup/Restore older versions of SQL Server to Windows Azure Cloud

SQL Server 2012 supported backing up database to Windows Azure . Of course higher versions will also be capable and in fact SQL Server 2014 will also do so more easily. What if you wanted to backup your SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008R2 to the Cloud. Well, a new 3 step tool released by Microsoft can do it, no problem (it appears). The tool supports backup compression and encryption to boot.

Access tool download link here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40740

Few more details here.

 

Exclusively Microsoft SQL Servers

I have started a new blog exclusively covering topics that interested me (off /On) related to Microsoft SQL Servers. I also plan on posting links to my older articles on this subject.

I am a busy guy, you will also find new stuff that may help you in your learning experience.

Well, Hodentek is all about learning.

http://hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/

Welcome to the new blog.

Jay