Scalable Porject Server 2007 Configuration for multiple groups

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Dinesh Tekkatte

I need to have a hosted server configuration for hosting data for multple
accounts data. The configuration should support me to add new account with
click of a button, which can create MOSS site collection for it & create
workspace for creating projects and managing them for that account.

The question is Should I go for creating Multiple instances of project, one
for each account or should I host everything in one account (and try
restrcting users to access projects belonging to their account)?
Users should have access to the data (projects) belonging to their account
only. Only portfolio managers need reports accross accounts.

Multiple instance configuration seems to be an easy option to manage. But
how scalable it is? Can I have thousands of instances created in a single
installation? Is there any limit to the number of instances (theroetically?)
Is it easy to automate the instance creation proecess(with custom user
groups created for each instance)?
 
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NZ Projects

Doing it all within a single instance of PS is not an option, as different
customers will require different Ent. Custom Fields, views, security
requirement etc. This is a none starter.

I would strongly recommend an 'Out Hosting' solution, where each account has
it's own SSP and Web App. This will provide software security boundaries so
that each customers data is separated in a unique database. This obviously
has an administrative overhead in creating each customers instance. This
Blog has an example of provisioning Project 2007 from the command line
http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/arch...erver-2007-using-the-command-line-stsadm.aspx

How many customers/instances you can provision depends on the servers used
to host the solution and the usage of the solution by customers.


HTH
 
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