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Q1: What is Project 2003?

Project 2003 provides support for your work and people management needs, whether you manage projects independently or manage a project portfolio across a team, department, or organization.

Project 2003 includes MS Office Project Standard 2003, MS Office Project Professional 2003, MS Office Project Server 2003, and MS Office Project Web Access. Project Professional, Project Server, and Project Web Access (PWA) work together to make up the MS solution for Enterprise Project Management (EPM).

Q2: What are some of the new features included in Project Standard 2003?

Project Standard 2003 is designed to improve your ability to organize work and communicate effectively and succinctly through familiar, easy-to-use tools. With Project Standard 2003, you can now:

Effectively and easily transfer project information into other MS Office System programs using the new Copy Picture to Office Wizard.

Easily print one page printouts of your project plans.

Navigate easily and get guidance quickly through the MS Office 2003 task panes, online Help, and training services.

Q3: What is the difference between Project Standard 2003 and Project Professional 2003?

Project Standard 2003 is the latest version of the MS standard desktop project management program. As a stand-alone product, Project Standard 2003 enables project managers, business managers, and planners to manage and plan projects independently with familiar, easy-to-use tools. Project Standard 2003 is not designed to exchange data with Project Server 2003.

Project Professional 2003 is the MS desktop enterprise project management program that is used with Project Server 2003 and Project Web Access to make up the MS solution for Enterprise Project Management (EPM). Project Professional 2003 offers all the tools found in Project Standard, and when used with Project Server, it also provides powerful enterprise project management capabilities—such as portfolio management and modeling, skill-based resource management, and project collaboration.

Q4: What is Project Server 2003?

Project Server 2003 is the platform that supports the portfolio management, resource management, and collaboration capabilities in the Microsoft EPM Solution. With Project Server 2003, you can store project and resource information centrally. Project Server integrates with MS Windows® SharePoint™ Services for document management and collaboration capabilities that enable team members to work together effectively. You can connect to Project Server 2003 through Project Professional 2003 and Project Web Access to save, retrieve, and interact with Project Server 2003 data.

Q5: What is Project Web Access 2003?

Project Web Access is the Web portal that enables people to connect to the project and resource information in Project Server 2003. Team members, executives, and resource managers—in other words, anyone who needs access to Project Server information but does not require the scheduling capabilities of Project Professional—can use Project Web Access through a Web browser to view, update, and analyze information. You must have a Project Server 2003 Client Access License (CAL) to use Project Web Access.

Q6: What is the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solution?

Project Professional 2003, Project Server 2003, and Project Web Access are designed to work together to make up the MS Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution. This solution enables organizations to align business initiatives, projects, and resources for better business results. By using the flexible reporting and analysis capabilities in the EPM solution, organizations can receive information to help optimize resources, prioritize work, and align their project portfolio with overall business objectives.

Q7: What are some of the new features included in the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution?

EPM provides powerful portfolio and resource management capabilities and enables effective collaboration. Some of the new features in the Microsoft solution for EPM enable you to:

- Add resources to projects through the new Build Team feature in Project Web Access, without needing Project Professional 2003 installed on your computer.

-Use Proposed Booking to plan ahead by tracking potential resource assignments for projects in the proposal phase.

- Lock down time periods to prevent users from reporting hours for periods other than the current time period, and establish multiple timesheet approvers.

- View and report time on Project 2003 tasks in the MS Office Outlook® 2003 Calendar adjacent to other Outlook appointments.

- Create printable reports of data tables in Project Center views and Resource Center views, and task pages in Timesheet views.

- Manage your documents and share information efficiently through features such as check-in/check-out and versioning enabled by integration with Windows SharePoint Services.

Q8: What is a Client Access License (CAL) for Project Server?

The Project Server CAL is a license to use the services and functionality of Project Server. Using Project Web Access requires a Project Server CAL.

Q9: What is Windows SharePoint Services?

Windows SharePoint Services is a component of Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Project Server 2003 integrates with Windows SharePoint Services for document management and project-related issue and risk tracking.

To enable the Windows SharePoint Services capabilities in Project Web Access—including document versioning and check-in/check-out—Project Server 2003 requires Windows Server 2003.

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