Save Offline

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Ranga

Hi,
We are using Remote desktop to access and do changes to
project plans as recommended by microsoft, for better
performance.
Now we have a problem of saving the plan offline, how do
the users have access to file saved offline on the remote
server? Is there any way where we can configure the save
offline to a particular directory?? or can we save it
offline on the local desktop of the person who is doing
remote desktop connection to the server???

Any feedback is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Ranga
 
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Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]

Ranga:

The save offline feature uses the Offline capabilities of the operating
system. The plans are stored with cryptic numeric identifiers in the offline
folder of the person taking the plan offline. If you want your remote users
to have the ability to take a plan offline on their laptops, then you'll
need to provide a VPN connection, or similar, for these users to connect
directly to the Project Server to open the plan and save offline. Use the
remote desktop solution for live editing, use a direct connection for
editing offline.
 
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mike j

would it be possible to have the terminal server connection have a mapped drive back to the local machine they are using to connect to the terminal server. Say this drive is drive X

Would it be possible to have project save it's offline project s to that drive. Then could you open project on the local box away from the terminal server session and work offline as a network user from that box against those projects saved offline. then reconnect to the terminal server and having the same mapped drive start project server and run connected to the server and save online.

That sure sounds confusing doesn't it?

What do you mean by offline capabilities of the OS?

mj
 
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Sarah

Mike,

If you save offline properly, you don't want to try to open the
offline file from its location on your machine. If you do, you will
remove the connection to the server, and will be unable to save it
back online when you reconnect. When you select to save a file
offline, you can open it through Project. I'm not currently using a
server edition, but if I remember correctly, you open Project, select
Work Offline, then File>Open, select the offline project. When you're
done with it, just do a normal Save (not Save as). When you're back to
the server, open Project and connect to the server, open the offline
project, then File>Save online. If any of this incorrect, one of the
others can correct it, please! ;-)

Sarah
 
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Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]

Mike:

Even if it were possible, what advantage would that have? The bandwidth
issue remains the same. If all you want to do is open projects remotely so
that they can be saved offline, then skip TS and make a direct connection.
Keep in mind you'll have to suffer through long open and save times and you
may need to increase the value of your SQL Query timeout.




mike j said:
would it be possible to have the terminal server connection have a mapped
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drive back to the local machine they are using to connect to the terminal
server. Say this drive is drive X
Would it be possible to have project save it's offline project s to that
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drive. Then could you open project on the local box away from the terminal
server session and work offline as a network user from that box against
those projects saved offline. then reconnect to the terminal server and
having the same mapped drive start project server and run connected to the
server and save online.
 
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mike j

Thanks for your responses. Our reason for considering TS for EPM was we have some people in untrusted domains and there are some authentication issues. We were told that the easiest way to solve these authentication issues was terminal server. Since we already had TS, it was easy enough to try. But we REQUIRE true offline use of project. Our project managers often are traveling to our customers sites. While enroute they may not have any connection to be able to VPN. They do significant activity in this fashion. Our project managers do have broad band connections when they do connect so we felt that bandwidth issues were not our primary concern.

Would project server 2003 make any of this any easier?

mj
 
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