Configure Enterprise Options

[Mike]

Hello everyone we have Project 2007 installed and configured in our
sharepoint farm. I'm looking for a way to automatically setup our clients to
connect to the enterprise server address. I haven't found anything in the
admin setup of the project client (setup.exe /admin). I have only found that
we can manually select Tools - Enterprise Options - Microsoft Office Project
server Accounts - Set Server.

Thanks for any help on this.
Mike

 

[James Fraser]

Hello everyone we have Project 2007 installed and configured in our
sharepoint farm. I'm looking for a way to automatically setup our clients to
connect to the enterprise server address. I haven't found anything in the
admin setup of the project client (setup.exe /admin). I have only found that
we can manually select Tools - Enterprise Options - Microsoft Office Project
server Accounts - Set Server.

Thanks for any help on this.
Mike

In Project Pro 2003, there were some registry hacks that would do
this, but in 2007, these registry entries now have an associated GUID.
So simply copying the registry entries will create duplicate GUID's
for connections. I don't know if this is a problem, but I recommend
that you avoid it. If you are up to writing some code / script to
generate GUIDs, you could have this working nicely, I bet. Search in
the user registry for Project.

I don't know of any official/supported way to deploy the connection
info.
James Fraser

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Mike --

Personally, I believe this is a training issue with your PM's. I think it
is a good thing that they learn how to correctly set up their Project Server
login account, and how to log into Project Server. During our training
classes, this is one of the first things that PM's learn how to do with
Project Professional 2007. Hope this helps.

 

[Mike]

Thanks to both of you for the information.

Thanks as well for the quick replies, much appreciated.

Mike

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi Mike,
Here is a programmatic way of configuring this. It needs to be run in the
context of the user but will work - thanks to Steven Haden for this.


Option Explicit

Dim ProjObj

Set ProjObj = CreateObject("msproject.application")

if ProjObj.Profiles.Count = 1 Then

ProjObj.Profiles.add "Production EPM",
"http://www.contoso.com/projectserver"

ProjObj.Profiles.DefaultProfile = ProjObj.Profiles.item(2)

End IF

ProjObj.Quit

Set ProjObj=Nothing

 

[Paul Conroy]

pushing pwa connection reg key via GPO is still a valid method.