→ This section described logging in to a Project server from Microsoft Project Professional 2002 only. For information on using Web Access to log in to the Project server, see Chapter 24, “Exploring Project’s Collaborative Features,” p. 966.
What you see when you bring up Microsoft Project Professional 2002 depends on how your user account is currently configured in Microsoft Project Professional:
If your account is configured for manual connection (which is described later in this section), then you will be prompted to choose a Project server account to log in to, as shown in Figure 25.2. Select your Project Server account and click Connect. Enter the password for your account and click Go to log in.
If your account is configured for automatic connection (which is discussed later in this section), then you will be prompted for a matching user ID and password. Enter the password for your account and click Go to log in.
If no Project Server account has been established for you in the copy of Project Professional that you’re using, you can only work offline. This section gives details on how to connect to a Project server, using information provided to you by the administrator.
If you work offline, Microsoft Project’s Professional edition features are not be available to you, as shown in Figure 25.3.
You can use the Professional edition without being logged in to a Project server, but this is the same as using a copy of the Standard edition, with access to none of the Professional edition features and none of the projects stored on a Project server. Working offline is different from saving projects offline, which is useful when you won’t have access to a Project server (for example, when you are traveling).
To establish a new connection from your copy of Project Professional 2002 to a Project server, you need the following information from your administrator:
A valid user ID and password on the Project server to which you are attempting to log in.
Information about whether you should log in using a Windows user account or a Microsoft Project Server account.
The Project server’s URL.
Follow these instructions to establish a connection between your copy of Project Professional and a Project server, using the information provided to you by your administrator:
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Select Tools, Enterprise Options, Microsoft Project Server Accounts. To add a new account, click Add and enter the information provided to you by the administrator, as shown in Figure 25.4. When you finish entering the required fields, including testing the connection to the Project server, click OK. Figure 25.4. You need to enter the information shown to add a new Project Server account.
The following are the fields in the Account Properties dialog box:
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The final step in adding a new Project Server account is to establish whether you want to automatically or manually log in to the Project server, as shown in Figure 25.5. Figure 25.5. You can choose Automatically Detect Connection State to automatically log on to the project server using your default connection each time you bring up Microsoft Project Professional.
The following are the fields in the Microsoft Project Server Accounts dialog box:
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After you add a new project server account, you need to exit and restart Microsoft Project Professional before you can log in using the new account.