Comments/suggestions on creating a Training RBS?

[Jack]

Has anyone any experience with creating a Training RBS on a production
MS Project Server instance?

My concept/hope is that I could expose students to the production
configuration yet create project plans and capture labor which would
be viewed and reported as training only. I would assign the students
to the Training RBS and subsequently move them into their actual
production RBS.

I am hoping to avoid creating a separate "training" server by this
approach yet allow me to filter out the Training projects and
timesheet entries created during training sessions from "real" work in
the Reporting database.

Beyond creating an enterprise project variable called Training is
there anything else I need to do to filter out the training data from
the production data?
Other things I need to consider in order to make this work?

Jack

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Wouldn't it be easier to just create a new Project Server instance on the
same hardware, then use Playbooks to migrate your settings over? That's
what I'd typically do.


- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Jack --

The way I handle this issue is to require each student to name their
projects prefixed with the word "Training" along with their first name and
first letter of their last name. For example, Training Dale H Write
Ultimate Microsoft Project 2010 book. This way, it is easy to delete the
projects after the class. Hope this helps.