Turning off Active Directory Sync for Groups

[Michelle H]

Project Server 2007 was installed and set up for my company a couple of
months ago by an outside vendor. This vendor set up the system to use Actice
Directory as a way to assign Groups to PWA users.

Because our IT is outsourced, using Active Directory to manage Groups has
become a very cumbersome, very slow process, it has now been decided that we
would like to turn off this sync. Going forward, we would like to manually
add/remove Groups for users.

Has anyone done this before? If yes, is there anything I should know before
proceeding? I do not foresee it, but will doing this cause any major issues
with the existing users in the system?

Any information you can share on this topic would be very much appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Michelle H --

To turn off the AD sync for Groups, your Project Server administrator should
do the following:

1. Log into PWA with administrator permissions.
2. Click Server Settings - Manage Groups.
3. On the Manage Groups page, click the Active Directory Sync Options
button.
4. In the Synchronize Project Server Groups with Active Directory dialog,
deselect the "Schedule Synchronization" option.
5. Click the Save button.

Changing this setting should not affect anyone who is already in one or more
security Groups in PWA. I cannot think of any adverse effect this decision
will have on Project Server 2007 except that your Project Server
administrator will need to manually handle adding users to the proper
security Groups. Hope this helps.