What IE Settings are required for PWA and MSPS to function properly? Please HELP

[irish_archer68]

Hello and thank you for reading this posting.

I work in an environment that uses I.E 6.0.2900.2180 - SP2

The symptom I am having is:
There is a group of users of PWA (30) that all have Identical
Permissions in PWA. they are assigned to the default Project Manager
Permissions and the same category (my projects) in PWA.

Most of the users (24-25) can open a project from PWA (Project
Center/Open) just fine. They are not having any issues with the
functionality of Project server.

5 or 6 of the users are having the same symptom. When they try to open
a project from the project Center, they receive a message saying 'You
need MS Project 2002 or 2003 to open this project."
The other symptom these 5 - 6 users have is they get a 'You Don't have
Permission to View this page' error when they try to connect to MSPS
via Project Professional.

My question is:
is there a comprehensive list of Internet Explorer Settings documented
anywhere that I can reference in troubleshooting these 5-6 users?

I have found many references to ensuring Active X Controls are set to
at least prompt and ensuring the URL is in the Trusted Sites list.
Is there any documentation on these settings? I have searched the
Project Server Experts site and microsofts site and have not found
anything.

Please Advise.

 

[Marc Schoeni]

Hi,

For the 5-6 troublesome users, make sure that the URL specified in Project
Professional (under Tools - Enterprise Options - Project Server Accounts) is
identical to the URL they use in Project Web Access. E.g. don't use a
fully-qualified name in PWA and the server name only in Project
Professional.

Let us know if this helps...

Marc S.
MCP for EPM
www.diventis.ch
www.msepm.blogspot.com