Changing users in PS2003 from Inactive to Active

[Mr. Mohr]

Does anyone know of an easy way to change inactive users to active within
Project Server?

We were messing around with OLAP and somehow many of our users accounts went
to inactive. I have been told that Project Server 2003 will not reactivate a
user account once it has been changed to inactive and that the only way to
reactivate it is to do it manually. I have hundreds of users and this will
take awhile.

I would prefer to find a way to make all accounts active and then let the AD
sync deactivate the accounts as if finds them.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Mr. Mohr

 

[James Fraser]

We were messing around with OLAP and somehow many of our users accounts went
to inactive. I have been told that Project Server 2003 will not reactivate a
user account once it has been changed to inactive and that the only way to
reactivate it is to do it manually. I have hundreds of users and this will
take awhile.

I would prefer to find a way to make all accounts active and then let the AD
sync deactivate the accounts as if finds them.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Mr. Mohr

It sounds like your AD sync may be what deactivated all the accounts
in the first place. OLAP changes are extremely unlikely to have
deactivated the accounts.

But to answer your question directly: If all of the users are
resources in the Resource pool, you can open them up in Project
Professional (Tools - > Enterprise Options - > Open Enterprise
Resource Pool. Make sure to select "Show Inactive Resources." select
all and then open.)

There you can add the Inactive column. Pay attention to the double
negative, and you can set these to "Yes" and turn the resources active
again.


James Fraser

 

[Mr. Mohr]

Actually... the users who are showing inactive in the admin console do not
show up in the enteprise resource pool even when selecting show inactive
users check box. This doesn't appear to be a way around my issue.

Any other ideas?

 

[James Fraser]

Actually... the users who are showing inactive in the admin console do not
show up in the enteprise resource pool even when selecting show inactive
users check box. This doesn't appear to be a way around my issue.

Any other ideas?

Then those users are not Enterprise Resources. I would check the AD
groups that your Project Server Groups are synchronizing against. (Not
the Enterprise Resource Pool group.)

But if that doesn't fix it, then no, I don't think there is a way to
bulk edit those users.


James Fraser

 

[James Fraser]

Actually... the users who are showing inactive in the admin console do not
show up in the enteprise resource pool even when selecting show inactive
users check box. This doesn't appear to be a way around my issue.

Any other ideas?

May be too late, but I also should have mentioned: make sure you click
on the "Apply filter" button to show the inactive resources.


James Fraser