How to protect the baseline

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Red Rag

Hello,
Is it possible to protect the Baseline with a password or a limited access
with Project Server 2003 ?
Tanks

Red Rag
 
D

Dale Howard [MVP]

Red Rag --

In some organizations,they permit only the Project Management Office staff
to baseline projects and forbid the project managers from doing so. If this
is your organization's methodology, you can prevent the PM's from baselining
their projects by setting the Save Baseline permission to Deny in the
Project Managers group. You would also need to add your PMO staff members
to the Portfolio Managers group and set the Save Baseline permission for
this Group to Allow.

Other than this, there is no way to prevent project managers from saving or
resaving a baseline. Therefore, if the first paragraph is not the solution
you seek, you should make this a training and performance issue with your
project managers. Hope this helps.
 
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Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)

RedRag:

There's a caveat to this that you should be aware of: A Project manager can
remove a baseline by deleting a task and recreating it. Think of the
permission as generating a courtesy warning, not absolute control. The
product team resisted adding this permission because it's so easily
defeated.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the books on Project Server"
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

For Project Server FAQs visit
http://www.projectserverexperts.com

For Project FAQs visit
http://www.mvps.org/project

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R

Red Rag

Hello Gary,
Thanks for the warning !

Red Rag

Gary L. Chefetz (MVP) said:
RedRag:

There's a caveat to this that you should be aware of: A Project manager can
remove a baseline by deleting a task and recreating it. Think of the
permission as generating a courtesy warning, not absolute control. The
product team resisted adding this permission because it's so easily
defeated.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the books on Project Server"
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

For Project Server FAQs visit
http://www.projectserverexperts.com

For Project FAQs visit
http://www.mvps.org/project

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