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Bjurran
Hello everyone!
From reading different threads here, I found some answers that tells me that
I'm not in a really good position right now...
I was recently employed as an IT manager at a small company where they use
ms project mainly for gantt chart time planning for many different projects.
They have used project 2k before, and have that installed on some machines
today. Many of our contractors and customers still use the 2k version to
create these and mail them to us every week. (they don't need anything else,
so why upgrade?)
The problem is, someone previously employed at our company decided that it
would be a great idea to install project server 2k3 on the server. They never
upgraded the clients, so they where still running 2k on the client, and
almost never used the server part of it. The only project 2k3 that was
installed was on the server, so only the administrator could add new
projects, and the others had to use the web based thingy... That caused the
users to still work in their own files, as they had no access to the server
from project.
Now, we have expanded a whole lot, and it's up to me to decide what system
to use. Preferably, I'd like to be able to use any version of project to
update the files. I don't see how this could be much diff between the
versions, as mainly the only part we use is the Gantt Chart. Is it possible
to work with this with different versions of project? We WILL need to send
files to other companies using older versions. (try to convince someone to
upgrade 300+ installations just because their subcontractor ask them to)
As I see it, for us being a small company, the investment in project server
2k3 was nothing but a waste of money. As far as I can see, no one sells 2k3
versions any more, so we'd have to upgrade all of our systems to 2k7,
including the server. (Never going to happen as it's too expensive!)
So please tell me, how do I get our project server 2k3 to work with 2k, 2k3
and 2k7 files? And how do I make sure that nomatter what verison the file is
saved in, people will still be able to use it in their installed version. If
it's not possible, well, then you just lost some of us...
Looking at the costs for this software, you just can't expect that people
will upgrade everytime you decide to earn more money by releasing another non
compatible version. That's just sick!
From reading different threads here, I found some answers that tells me that
I'm not in a really good position right now...
I was recently employed as an IT manager at a small company where they use
ms project mainly for gantt chart time planning for many different projects.
They have used project 2k before, and have that installed on some machines
today. Many of our contractors and customers still use the 2k version to
create these and mail them to us every week. (they don't need anything else,
so why upgrade?)
The problem is, someone previously employed at our company decided that it
would be a great idea to install project server 2k3 on the server. They never
upgraded the clients, so they where still running 2k on the client, and
almost never used the server part of it. The only project 2k3 that was
installed was on the server, so only the administrator could add new
projects, and the others had to use the web based thingy... That caused the
users to still work in their own files, as they had no access to the server
from project.
Now, we have expanded a whole lot, and it's up to me to decide what system
to use. Preferably, I'd like to be able to use any version of project to
update the files. I don't see how this could be much diff between the
versions, as mainly the only part we use is the Gantt Chart. Is it possible
to work with this with different versions of project? We WILL need to send
files to other companies using older versions. (try to convince someone to
upgrade 300+ installations just because their subcontractor ask them to)
As I see it, for us being a small company, the investment in project server
2k3 was nothing but a waste of money. As far as I can see, no one sells 2k3
versions any more, so we'd have to upgrade all of our systems to 2k7,
including the server. (Never going to happen as it's too expensive!)
So please tell me, how do I get our project server 2k3 to work with 2k, 2k3
and 2k7 files? And how do I make sure that nomatter what verison the file is
saved in, people will still be able to use it in their installed version. If
it's not possible, well, then you just lost some of us...
Looking at the costs for this software, you just can't expect that people
will upgrade everytime you decide to earn more money by releasing another non
compatible version. That's just sick!