2 My timesheet webpart into a timesheet...PWA2007

[Matteo]

Dear all,
some users really curious and at the same time dangerous, without following
only guidelines but trying to discover new ways to do something...(and the
moment I don't know what! ) added a second timesheet webpart into the
timesheet webpage, How can I forbid this users to modify the shared view? Is
it a Project Settings or a Sharepoint Settings? I am working into a Project
Server 2007 on top of WSS 3.0

Thank you

Matteo

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Matteo --

Are all users seeing the newly added Web part, or only the users who added
it? Let us know.

 

[Matteo]

All the users...they are modifying the shared view, anyway I would to block
them also the personal view.
Is it possible? Where can I set this?

Matteo

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Matteo --

It sounds like the users who made this change are Project Server
administrators, which is why everyone can see the change. Is this the case?
Let us know.

 

[Matteo]

Yes, it is... sometime it happens. Only Project Administrator can do this
changes? Which right enable a user to do that? Is it available a log to
understand who did this change and when? I would hope that this is a
configuration mistake that I did.

Thank yuo Dale, for your time and for your help.

Matteo

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Matteo --

If a user is a member of the Administrators group, he/she can change the
setup and display of many pages in PWA (as you have discovered). I'm not
aware of a log where you can determine exactly who made this change, but
perhaps our SQL DBA's in this group can comment on where in SQL Server you
might find this information. My questions for you are: Do all of the users
in the Administrators group actually NEED to be administrators? And why
don't you simply ask the users in the Administrators group WHO made the
change? If anyone confesses, don't beat on him/her. Simply tell this
person that the changes made to the page show up on everybody's page and let
it go at that. Hope this helps.

 

[Matteo]

Dear Dale,
for Administrators Group you mean local administrators, domain admins or web
application administrator into wss? Actually my application server (for
project 2007 and wss 3.0) is a 2003 dc, and more than 1 person is member of
domain admins so also local admins.

For the sql DBA part, is it possible get in contact with someone that know
where are stored the changes to the shared view as stated?

Thank you Dale for your effort

Matteo

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Matteo --

I am only referring to the default Administrators security group within
Project Server 2007.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Matteo:

I am aware of this issue. What's happening is the permissions
synchronization is adding the project managers to the Project Managers
permissions group on the PWA site. I know this happens whenever you create
the project workspaces in the same site collection. I suspect it may not
happen if you use a separate site collection but I haven't tested
it.Microsoft's Project Server guidance says nothing about needing to
segregate these so maybe this is a bug.

To fix it, logon to the PWA and on the home page select Site Actions > Site
Settings
Select Advanced Permissions from the Users and Permissions Section
Select your project managers and the click Actions > Edit User Permissions
Deselect the Project Managers group and Select the Team Members group

This removes the Site Actions option from their view.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
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