Spooling Error

[Deborah R]

One of our PM's, whose project has been on server for at least 4 months now
had an unexpected error when republishing yesterday. Where is the best place
for me to obtain details on errors and their meaning? The error he recieved
was "the manager cannot create the resource account (0x8C40017)"...He has
republished in the past and had not recievd this error. If any one can point
me in the rigt direction that'd be great! THANK YOU!

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Deborah:

This error indicates that your PM has a local resource in his plan, and the
workgroup method for this resource is set to default, which in your case, is
Project Server set not to allow Project Managers to create accounts for
resources in Project Server. Do you want to allow this local resource? Do
you want this resource to have a logon account?

If your goal is to allow the local resource without creating an account for
them, then have your PM set the workgroup value to none in the resource
information dialog.

If your goal is not to have local resources, have your PM remove the local
resource from the plan and substitute an Enterprise Resource

If your goal is to allow the local resource and allow that resource to logon
to PWA, then either create an account for the resource manually, or change
the permissions on your Project Server to allow PMs to create user accounts
when publishing.

To investigate the meaning of errors, you can search the Microsoft
Knowledgebase at http://support.microsoft.com or ask your questions here.