MS Project Server has no other product or license other itself and WSS
(Windows SharePoint Services). You need another license for the underlying
Windows Server 2003. Assuming this a one-server install, you need to get MS
SQL 2000 with Analysis Services as well. (If it's a two server install, you
need 2 MS Windows Server and 1 MS Project Server and 1 SQL Server License.
To use MS Project Server, you need to get the client portion of the "MS
Project Server" server. That would be MS Project 2003 Professional. (If you
use any other MS Project product, such as 2002 or "Standard", the Enterprise
features of MS Project Server 2003 won't work, which defeats the purpose of
using MS Project 2003 Professional.)
The web client licenses "CALs" are for the end users of MS Project Server.
In other words, if there is 1 project manager and 20 resources (or users),
the project manager needs to get MS Project 2003 Professional and the 20
resources (resources on the project) who access the data need to get client
access licenses "CAL"s.
From the question you are asking, I do not believe you know what the product
is used for, so here are the basics:
MS Project Server is a client-server application and a web PWA (Project Web
Access) application. (We'll skip the SharePoint Services stuff for now.)
There are basically two types of users:
(a) The MS Project 2003 Professional user (typically a PM or Project
Manager) and
(b) The PWA (Project Web Access) user (typically a resource on a project)
I say typically because there are other types of functions for these two
type of users, but we'll go with that first.
In the olden days, a PM would have several meetings, phone calls, etc. to
get progress on tasks within a project plan. Wastes time and takes away from
doing the actaul project, so...
With MS Project Server, while a touch-base meeting is required so the
resources are kept on target, the day-to-day progress can be reported by the
resource using PWA (as opposed to the PM walking around, phoning, etc.)
How does this work?
I am skipping the technical steps and the subtleties which needs to be
precisely followed, so you will need to get info on how to do that.
Project Server administrator configures MS Project Server
Project Server administrator creates the “Enterprise Globalâ€
Project Server administrator loads the “Enterprise Resource Poolâ€
Project Manager creates a MS Project plan and publishes the plan onto MS
Project Server
The resources receive their own tasks only on their timesheet through PWA
The resources enter time against their tasks and send updates the Project
Manager
The Project Manager accepts or rejects the time against tasks.
The Project Manager republishes the plan
The cycle repeats until by resources entering next weks time, etc. etc.
