Active Directory® service plays many roles, from being the backbone of distributed security to being the central repository for information for your entire infrastructure. It vastly simplifies user and computer management and provides superior access to networked resources.
When used with Project Server 2003, Active Directory provides a central service for administrators to organize enterprise resources and Project Server users. Organizations in a position to take advantage of Active Directory can greatly simplify the security and resource management aspects of Project Server.
The Active Directory connector in Project Server facilitates synchronization of users and groups from Active Directory to Project Server. A new feature of Project Server is the ability to synchronize security groups, distribution groups, and organization units in Active Directory with security groups in Project Server. In addition, the enterprise resource pool in Project Server can be populated based on the users who belong to a mapped group in Active Directory.
The result is that you save administrative and hardware costs.
Advantages of using Active Directory
Managing user accounts is a great burden because all of the requisite information is rarely in one place, at the right time. Active Directory solves this so you can realize some time-saving benefits:
• When a new person is hired by an organization, he or she will be added automatically to the enterprise resource pool instead of having to be added manually. This alone can save you many hours of managing new users and searching for new people to add to projects.
• When a person leaves the organization, he or she is deactivated automatically within Project Server.
Deactivating a user does not delete the user from the Project Server database. A record of that user’s work on project tasks, including any actual work hours, is retained after deactivation.
If a person’s name changes or any other key attributes about the person change, this change will automatically occur within Project Server and will appear in any other projects to which the person is assigned.
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When used with Project Server 2003, Active Directory provides a central service for administrators to organize enterprise resources and Project Server users. Organizations in a position to take advantage of Active Directory can greatly simplify the security and resource management aspects of Project Server.
The Active Directory connector in Project Server facilitates synchronization of users and groups from Active Directory to Project Server. A new feature of Project Server is the ability to synchronize security groups, distribution groups, and organization units in Active Directory with security groups in Project Server. In addition, the enterprise resource pool in Project Server can be populated based on the users who belong to a mapped group in Active Directory.
The result is that you save administrative and hardware costs.
Advantages of using Active Directory
Managing user accounts is a great burden because all of the requisite information is rarely in one place, at the right time. Active Directory solves this so you can realize some time-saving benefits:
• When a new person is hired by an organization, he or she will be added automatically to the enterprise resource pool instead of having to be added manually. This alone can save you many hours of managing new users and searching for new people to add to projects.
• When a person leaves the organization, he or she is deactivated automatically within Project Server.
Deactivating a user does not delete the user from the Project Server database. A record of that user’s work on project tasks, including any actual work hours, is retained after deactivation.
If a person’s name changes or any other key attributes about the person change, this change will automatically occur within Project Server and will appear in any other projects to which the person is assigned.
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