Microsoft® Office Project Server 2003 Unleashed

Managing Enterprise Project and Resource Calendars

In Microsoft Project, calendars are used by the scheduling engine to understand how unique calendar items—for example, holidays, part-time employees, and so on—affect the plan for accomplishing work. Out of the box, only one calendar, Standard, is the base calendar for building all other calendars. Standard identifies every day as a work day from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. except Saturday and Sunday. The Standard calendar is the default for all calendars until you define and assign additional, more useful calendars.

Normally, at least one additional calendar is created that contains the installing company's holidays and is given a name such as Company calendar. When assigned to a project, resource, ...