Laptop Rebuild - Step Two

Yesterday I installed the OS, AV and office so that I have access to e-mail. Next on the list are the additional Microsoft tools that I use in my job: Project Professional 2010, Visio 2010, Power Pivot and the various Outlook connectors. During the installation of these other products, I am making some tweaks to Office. I have found that the best way to do this is to open Word and change the options in

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The importance of Active Directory

One of the roles in my last position was to set-up and manage Project Server 2010. As I had never used Project Server (2010 or any other version) this was quite an undertaking. One of the first things I looked at was the configuration of the users and the resources. In Project Server parlance a user is someone who can access the system and a resource is a person, object or material that can be allocated to a task within a project.

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