I firmly believe one of the reasons MS holds the position they do is due to their control of the Directory, and their integration with it. MS thought so once too, and tried to extend it to the Internet with Passport.
So why oh why then does this MS product NOT support any of the normal UI’s for authentication.
MS Project 2003 Professional connecting to a MS Project Server 2003.
It gives the option of connecting with your domain account, or using a “Project Server Account”. Here comes the crunch. NEITHER of these options works on a PC that is not a domain member. There is no popup UI to ask for a password.
Now, many many projects I know of are managed by external consultants, working for other companies, with laptops managed by IT teams that are DEFINATELY NOT on our domain.
Glad to see the thinking caps went on for this one boys.
