Cannot publish a non-enterprise project

[Glenn]

From the menu I select Collaborate | Publish | Project Plan. I click OK and
Continue buttons and then get a message box saying that I am unable to
publish a non-enterprise project to Microsoft Project Server. I am using MS
Project 2002 Professional and Microsoft Project Server 2002.

Is there a way for me to change my administrator settings on Microsoft
Project Server to allow me to publish non-enterprise projects?

I am not even sure what the difference is between an enterprise project and
a non-enterprise project. I thought all projects in the Professional
versions were enterprise.

 

[Joe]

Glenn,

I don't know about MSP-2002, but with MSP-2003 you need to save the project
plan on the project server first, then you can publish it. By saving it to
the server, it becomes an enterprise project. A .mpp project on your local
drive is considered a non-enterprise project, and thus can not be published.

Joe

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Glenn --

You are getting the error message because you did not create a user login
account in Microsoft Project Professional with which to log into Project
Server. Here's how to do it:

1. Click Tools - Enterprise Options - Microsoft Office Project Server
Accounts
2. Click the Add button
3. Enter an Account Name value and a valid Project Server URL
4. Click the Test Connection button to verify the URL
5. Select the "Set as default account" option and click OK
6. Select the "Manually control connection state" option and click OK
7. Close Microsoft Project Professional
8. Launch Microsoft Project Professional and log into Project Server

At this point, you should now import the previous project into the Project
Server database using Tools - Enterprise Options - Import Project to
Enterprise. Pay special attention the page in the wizard that maps local
resources in the project with enterprise resources in the Enterprise
Resource Pool. DO NOT under any circumstances simply open your previous
project and then do a File - Save As to save it in the database. That is a
huge "no no" and will cause you problems. Hope this helps.

 

[Joe]

Dale,

I did not know that opening a .mpp file and saving it as a enterprise
project is a huge NO-NO. Can you tell me why, just so I understand the
ramifications of this since I already did this and everything seem to be
fine? Also, since I already this, should I undo this, and how?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Joe --

The procedure you describe does not force the project to conform to your
enterprise project, task, and resource conventions, nor does it convert
local resources in the project to enterprise resources. Hope this helps.