From: Eitan on
Thank you.
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"Mike Glen" wrote:

> Hi Eitan,
>
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> Mike Glen
> Project MVP
>
>
> "Eitan" <Eitan(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:99C5AE7E-BEAB-4C61-8458-690D515E6483(a)microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Our system is Project Server 2007 with SP2.
>
> For a division with a PMO department – all project managers can edit
> Gantts
> and create new Gantts. We want to change it so that only project
> managers
> which are PMO members can create Gantts. The PMO members will create the
> Gantts, change ownership to the rest of the project managers, and the
> project
> managers will continue from there.
>
> The change is to deny the single permission of creating a new Gantt from
> the
> project managers, which are not PMO members.
> I don't want to create two separate and almost identical project
> mangers
> groups and duplicate the maintenance just for this single difference.
> For this purpose, there is one new server group (named “Deny New
> Project”)
> with only one global deny permission on 'New Projects'. All project
> managers
> (that should not be able to create new Gantts) will also be members of
> this
> new group.
>
> The problem is that it causes failure in the 'Change Gantt
> Ownership'
> procedure. When an administrator is using the 'Edit Project
> Properties' web
> page to change the Gantt ownership, the system outputs an error message:
> The project could not be saved due to the following reason(s):
> • An unknown error has occured.
> There is nothing in the event viewer logs.
>
> Is this a bug in the system or is it by design? If it is a bug, is there
> a
> fix for it? Is there a bypass to transfer the Gantt ownership to a user
> that
> has deny on 'New Project'?
>
> Thanks.
> Eitan
>