Local Resources

[Ed Kluk]

I am working on a project that is a collaboration between a vendor and about
30 resources in my organization. We would like to use one project to track
both the vendors tasks and my tasks. All of our resources are Enterprise
resources and the vendors resources are local. We would like to save and
publish the project on our Project Server 2003 but would like to have the
vendor's resources remain local to the project and we would like to not have
User Accounts created. When I turn of the option for Project Manager to
"Create Accounts from Microsoft Office Project", the project spooler gives
the error: "the manager cannot create the resource account (0x8C040017)"
each time I attempt to publish it.

The question is, can I publish a project with both local and enterprise
resources, have the local resources remain local and not have user accounts
created for each of them automatically?

Thank you...Ed

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Ed --

Open the project, apply the Resource Sheet view, double-click the name of
each local resource and set the Workgroup value to None, and then save the
project. When you publish assignments in the future, you will no longer
receive the Spooler errors. Hope this helps.

 

[Edward Kluk]

It worked. Thank you...Ed
1:25:22 PM >>>
Ed --

Open the project, apply the Resource Sheet view, double-click the name of
each local resource and set the Workgroup value to None, and then save the
project. When you publish assignments in the future, you will no longer
receive the Spooler errors. Hope this helps.