Enterprise Wide Deployment

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SirRonald

Hello,

What would be the best overall deployment strategy for a large company,
with project offices geographically scattered (8-10 main locations),
where it was important to be able to summary report on projects from
all offices? Would a project server in each location be best, or would
it be a centralized server? What can be done to fight the latency for
a remote PM user, say in the East Coast accessing a server in the
Midwest over corporate LAN?

Thanks,

Ron
 
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cmuelder

Hi Ron,
if you only need a summary report over all offices, you could deploy 10
servers (with 10 databases) and consolidate the information via sql
analysis and reporting services.
But if you have the need to manage projects that span the locations,
you will stick to one central server.
In 2003 the solution for project managers in remote locations is
terminal services. With Project Pro and Server 2007 it might be, that
you will not need terminal services because of the cached mode of
Project Pro (rougly similar to the cached mode in Outlook 2003). But
that depends on your lines, the number of project managers and the size
of your projects

Christoph
 
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