Hi Hans
I disagree that this is by design. It is a real new bug in 2010 introduced in the end of November/start of December.
In Project Professional 2007 if you got a mpp file or if you had just created a new project in Project Professional and define a baseline before it becomes an "Enterprise" project, you can set the baseline as you can do in 2010. But when you save it (in
mpp form or new project form) in Project Server 2007, it clears the baseline before save whem the PM does not heve right tho save the protected baseline (it is not necessary to choose Deny, just leave unchecked). So the first question is why downgrade
a design of 2010 that is working fine in 2007?
Well in Project Pro 2010 curiously it worked fine as Project 2007 until last November.
In December this feature stopped to work. I know this, because I received a support request in mid November, that PMs were claiming that they could not save the baseline because this feature was working (only the PMO could save the baseline by setting definition).
In mid December the PMO of the same customer called me again complaining that the PMs were saving the baseline bypassing the setting. That's when I discovered that the feature was not working anymore. This behaviour was double checked at the both events
in our lab server to confirm the issue.
What did happen between November and December? They and I only applied Windows Update in between. Not any hot fix or CUs were applied in the servers or in the desktops, so I suspect that this change of behavior came in one of the Windows/Office Updates.
I hope this can help to add some light on the subject.
Best regards, Ricardo Segawa Segawas Projetos Microsoft Partner
