Cannot change Gantt ownership to a user with Deny on New Project

[Eitan]

Hi,

Our system is Project Server 2007 with SP2.

For a division with a PMO department – all project managers can edit Gantts
and create new Gantts. We want to change it so that only project managers
which are PMO members can create Gantts. The PMO members will create the
Gantts, change ownership to the rest of the project managers, and the project
managers will continue from there.

The change is to deny the single permission of creating a new Gantt from the
project managers, which are not PMO members.
I don’t want to create two separate and almost identical project mangers
groups and duplicate the maintenance just for this single difference.
For this purpose, there is one new server group (named “Deny New Projectâ€)
with only one global deny permission on ‘New Projects’. All project managers
(that should not be able to create new Gantts) will also be members of this
new group.

The problem is that it causes failure in the ‘Change Gantt Ownership’
procedure. When an administrator is using the ‘Edit Project Properties’ web
page to change the Gantt ownership, the system outputs an error message:
The project could not be saved due to the following reason(s):
• An unknown error has occured.
There is nothing in the event viewer logs.

Is this a bug in the system or is it by design? If it is a bug, is there a
fix for it? Is there a bypass to transfer the Gantt ownership to a user that
has deny on ‘New Project’?

Thanks.
Eitan

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Eitan,

Try posting on the microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup (forum). Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP


Hi,

Our system is Project Server 2007 with SP2.

For a division with a PMO department – all project managers can edit Gantts
and create new Gantts. We want to change it so that only project managers
which are PMO members can create Gantts. The PMO members will create the
Gantts, change ownership to the rest of the project managers, and the project
managers will continue from there.

The change is to deny the single permission of creating a new Gantt from the
project managers, which are not PMO members.
I don’t want to create two separate and almost identical project mangers
groups and duplicate the maintenance just for this single difference.
For this purpose, there is one new server group (named “Deny New Projectâ€)
with only one global deny permission on ‘New Projects’. All project managers
(that should not be able to create new Gantts) will also be members of this
new group.

The problem is that it causes failure in the ‘Change Gantt Ownership’
procedure. When an administrator is using the ‘Edit Project Properties’ web
page to change the Gantt ownership, the system outputs an error message:
The project could not be saved due to the following reason(s):
• An unknown error has occured.
There is nothing in the event viewer logs.

Is this a bug in the system or is it by design? If it is a bug, is there a
fix for it? Is there a bypass to transfer the Gantt ownership to a user that
has deny on ‘New Project’?

Thanks.
Eitan

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Eitan,

Try posting on the microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup (forum). Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP


Hi,

Our system is Project Server 2007 with SP2.

For a division with a PMO department – all project managers can edit Gantts
and create new Gantts. We want to change it so that only project managers
which are PMO members can create Gantts. The PMO members will create the
Gantts, change ownership to the rest of the project managers, and the project
managers will continue from there.

The change is to deny the single permission of creating a new Gantt from the
project managers, which are not PMO members.
I don’t want to create two separate and almost identical project mangers
groups and duplicate the maintenance just for this single difference.
For this purpose, there is one new server group (named “Deny New Projectâ€)
with only one global deny permission on ‘New Projects’. All project managers
(that should not be able to create new Gantts) will also be members of this
new group.

The problem is that it causes failure in the ‘Change Gantt Ownership’
procedure. When an administrator is using the ‘Edit Project Properties’ web
page to change the Gantt ownership, the system outputs an error message:
The project could not be saved due to the following reason(s):
• An unknown error has occured.
There is nothing in the event viewer logs.

Is this a bug in the system or is it by design? If it is a bug, is there a
fix for it? Is there a bypass to transfer the Gantt ownership to a user that
has deny on ‘New Project’?

Thanks.
Eitan

 

[Eitan]

Thank you.
Administrators, please remove this post from general questions.