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    With MS Project Server 2010, how can someone separate 2 different groups of projects?  For example we would like to have one location point - to projects that are managed by (and all tasks are performed by) the marketing group, while we would like to have a second location/set of projects that every discipline interacts with. 
    Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:21 PM

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    Hi,

    It basically comes down to your requirements.  Project Server 2010 includes a capability called Departments. This allows you to filter out things so staff who are members of that department only see their associated project types, custom fields, business drivers, OLAP cubes. The advantage of departments is that they coexist on the same PWA instance, thus you can leverage a single Enteprise Resource Pool.

    If you wish to totally segregate your projects so that you have a seperate pool of resources, seperate access permissions then I would spin up a second PWA instance for marketing only.

    Hope this helps,

     

    Alex Burton
    www.epmsource.com | Twitter
    Project Server TechCenter | Project Developer Center | Project Server Help | Project Product Page
    Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:03 PM
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    Hello Alex!

     

    Thanks for the reply.  It is insightful!  I have 1 additional question. 

    If we were to set up a second instance of PWA for our marketing department only, would that require additional servers, or could we create a "parallel" PWA site on the existing servers?

    Thanks In Adavnce!

    Kevin

    Kevin Douglas
    Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:35 PM
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    Hi Kevin,

    No, the Project Server Service Application can support multiple instances of Project Server, to create one navigate to the CA > Manage Service Apps > Project Server Service Application and choose to create an new PWA instance. It will xoexist with your existing on.

     

     

    Alex Burton
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    Project Server TechCenter | Project Developer Center | Project Server Help | Project Product Page
    Tuesday, February 22, 2011 6:26 PM
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    Hello Alex,

     

    I understand now and thanks, so much for you help!

     

    Kevin

    Kevin Douglas
    Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:45 PM