What can Project Server 2007 CAL do?

[Ryos]

Hi, my company is taking a look at the functionality of Project Server 2007
CAL to see how many licenses we could afford to go with there rather than
have to go with Project Professional 2007 when Standard will not suffice. I
am a bit confused about what all access this somewhat more limited version of
Project Server 2007 can do, however.

I see that the CAL version is primarily targeted toward Project Web Access,
but in terms of that what sort of authoring permissions would CAL licensees
be allowed? It appears they cannot create new projects from scratch (which
would make sense), but would they be able to propose or put in changes to
projects that have already been put online? Or are they basically just given
read access?

 

[GHMontgomery]

Users with a CAL only have access to project server via PWA. What type of
access the users have within PWA is entirely dependent upon how the PWA
interface is configured by the project server administrator.

In one example, Team Members and Executive Managers have CALs and only
Program/Project Managers (PM), Resource Managers (RM), and Server
Administrators purchase Project Professional 2007. What this means is that
while PM users create new published Projects via Project Professional, all
Team Members and Executives can review those projects and make appropriate
contributions via the PWA interface.

The key to remember is that the project server administrator ultimately
configures what type of access privileges (read, contribute, full control,
web administrator, etc.) PWA users have, whether the user has a CAL
(PWA-only) or Project Professional 2007 license.

I hope this helps!

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Gina Montgomery

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Ryos:

In order to fully manage a schedule in all its aspects in the EPM
environment, you must have a copy of Project Pro. To some extent, you can
create new projects using the web CAL and Project web access. Think of the
web cal as a "license to collaborate" using the numerous features available
in PWA. For instance, team members can update their tasks, propose new
tasks, refuse or reassign work, resource managers can build teams for
projects, approve timesheets from their resources, managers can perform
advanced analysis on data, and the list goes on. This is a very powerful
collaboration platform for project management. As GH points out, you can
also control what each user can do using the security model.

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