Cache - best practice advice sought

[Kevin W]

A project manager, say Barney Rubble, has MS Project Pro installed on
a laptop.

When in the office he is connected to the LAN and logs into the domain
as barney.rubble.x, he logs into Project Server using Windows
Authenication.

When he is away from the office, he first logs on the laptop locally
as barney.rubble and then sets up a secure link to the office LAN. He
logs onto Project Server as barney.rubble.x

The MS Project cache is stored in the user profile. Project Server
only ever sees one user (barney.rubble.x) but the laptop now has 2
different caches depending on whether Barney is logged on locally or
directly onto the domain.

I have a nagging concern that this might end in tears. Any advice
gratefully appreciated.

Clients are MS Project Pro 2007 + SP2 running on XP + SP2
Server is Project Server 2007 + SP2 running on Server 2008

 

[Novomir]

A project manager, say Barney Rubble, has MS Project Pro installed on
a laptop.

When in the office he is connected to the LAN and logs into the domain
as barney.rubble.x, he logs into Project Server using Windows
Authenication.

When he is away from the office, he first logs on the laptop locally
as barney.rubble and then sets up a secure link to the office LAN.  He
logs onto Project Server as barney.rubble.x

The MS Project cache is stored in the user profile.  Project Server
only ever sees one user (barney.rubble.x) but the laptop now has 2
different caches depending on whether Barney is logged on locally or
directly onto the domain.

I have a nagging concern that this might end in tears.  Any advice
gratefully appreciated.

Clients are MS Project Pro 2007 + SP2 running on XP + SP2
Server is Project Server 2007 + SP2 running on Server 2008

Hi

I have similar problem. I have use laptop and often switch from LAN to
WiFi and vice versa. After that I have error message 'This project
cannot be opened in read-write mode because a previous checkin for
this project is not completed'. Currently we have conversations with
Microsoft support, but problem is not solved yet.

Configuration looks very similar.
Clients are MS Project Pro 2007 + SP2 running on XP Professional +
SP3
Server is Project Server 2007 + SP2 running on Server 2008

 

[Ben Howard]

This will only cause an issue as and when a project is left checked out when
working off-line. It appears as though the laptops are not part of the
domain, I would resolve this and then your issues will disappear...
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Thanks, Ben.

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[Kev_J_W]

Ben,

Thank you.

I cannot do anything about the laptops not being part of the domain
when being used remotely - but I will issue guidance to all the PMs
about making sure plans are saved and checked in (and making sure that
they wait until the save job is complete before exiting Project and
dropping the link!).

Rgds,
Kevin