Updated: January 10, 2012

Summary: The first article in a series of eight articles about how to use Microsoft Project Web App to work with Microsoft Project Server 2010 data and to perform project management-related tasks.

Applies to: Microsoft Project Server 2010 | Microsoft Project Web App

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Organization of this guide   

• Introduction
  
  
• Chapter 1: Navigating Project Web App
  
  
• Chapter 2: Managing projects in Project Web App
  
  
• Chapter 3: Managing resources in Project Web App
  
  
• Chapter 4: Managing task updates in Project Web App
  
  
• Chapter 5: Managing issues, risks, and documents in Project Web App
  
  
• Chapter 6: Managing status reports in Project Web App
  
  
• Chapter 7: Configuring e-mail notifications and reminders in Project Web App
  
  

Introduction

This guide helps project managers in your organization to better understand elements of project management in Microsoft Project Web App (PWA), such as the following:

• Projects
  
  
• Resources
  
  
• Status updates and approvals
  
  
• Project issues, risks, and documents
  
  
• Notifications and alerts sent to project members
  
  

Important:
Although Microsoft Project Professional 2010 can be used with Project Server 2010 to perform many project management tasks, this guide only covers procedures done through Project Web App.

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Who should read this book?

This book provides maximum benefits for the following professionals:

• Project Managers. Those people in your organization who create and maintain projects and tasks, assign resources to tasks, manage approvals for task status and timesheet updates, and configure notifications for project team members.
  
  
• Project Management Office (PMO). Those people who help define and maintain project management standards and practices throughout the organization.
  
  

Microsoft Project Server 2010 Administrator's Guide

If you are looking for Project Server 2010 administrative guidance in a role-guide format that resembles this guide, we also have available the Microsoft Project Server 2010 Administrator's Guide. That guide describes tasks that are involved with administering Project Server 2010. It provides many step-by-step procedures (and accompanying user-interface screen shots) about how to manage Project Server 2010 through the Project Web App Server Settings page.

You can download the Microsoft Project Server 2010 Administrator's Guide in .docx, .pdf, or .xps format from the Project Server 2010 Administrator's Guide article in this Microsoft TechNet library.

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