PWA 2007/MOSS Enterprise Licenses

[Hadi]

Experts,

We have Project Server 2007 and we are using MOSS 2007 Enterprise as the
basis of our SharePoint technology. Our company has enough SharePoint
licenses (virtually unlimited) but so on the PWA Cal licenses. The question I
have is if I want to grant access to stakeholders than are not MS Project PWA
Users to the Project Workpaces area. Do we have to consume a CAL license for
that. or can we use the existing SharePoint licenses that we have?

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

If they have access to PWA webparts, then they need CALs. Note that if you
have PWA webparts on a site, the visitor could get an error when accessing
the site without PWA security.


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

 

[Hadi]

Andrew, thanks for your support. We're just using the statandard Project
Worspace template. I'm not sure there are any PWA web parts in that one. you
see by default, the URL for any workspace starts with //projectserver/pwa.
Does the fact that all these sites are subs of PWA require us to add those
external stakeholders under Server Setteings-Manage Users? or do i have to
change default workspaces URL to dettach it from PWA?

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Technically, a PWA webpart could be added to that page. Also, the Documents,
Issues & Risks lists are all Project Server proprietary, and not part of
the default image - they could be used to expose PWA data, in theory.

When in doubt, check with your MSFT licensing rep. To be safe though, I
would say create a default SharePoint site, have what you need on that, then
link it to the PWA provisioned workspace for the team members only.

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

 

[Hadi]

Andrew, thanks again this helps alot. I left a message with our MSFT rep and
hopefullly she calls me back. but i honestly thought i can get an answer on
this forum much faster.

 

[Hadi]

Andrew sorry but when you say create a default sharepoint site then link it
to the PWA provisioned workspace. that's what i have now. i go to Server
settings->Workspace provisioning and i have a standard template there and the
default URL is PWA. that template however has Issues and Risks as standard
List items.

is that what you were referring to?

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

I meant like a Team Workspace, or something out of the box from the
SharePoint side - not the Project Workspace that comes from Project Server.
Then make sure the Project Server features are turned off.

I point out that this is totally conjecture though until you get in touch
with your MSFT license rep.