Microsoft Project Web Access for Linux Users   

Hi, I searched all over the internet trying to find a way to have linux
users to access the PWA through IE, as firstly IE is not a linux thingy
(oh really?), and secondly because using a wine/IE implementation just
didn't work.

the tip to get it running is to install the latest version of MDAC. we
installed:
- wine from deb packages (ubuntu)
- cabextract from deb packages
- ie4linux from <http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html>
- MDAC 2.8 from <http://tinyurl.com/6xa89>

it took us some time to figure out the MDAC thing, but other than that,
everything went incredibly smooth.

the only thing we could not get running was the 'Assign myself to an
existing task' thing. We are about to switch everyone over to project
server, and the issue we had was to get everyone to enter their
timesheets on the browser (linux users). all the administrative tasks,
like daily timesheets have to be assigned on a windows machine.

Decided to post this here to help others.

cheers,
Fernando

date: 6 Jun 2006 18:39:19 -0700   author:   unknown

Re: Microsoft Project Web Access for Linux Users   

Hi,

Project Web Access requires ActiveX Controls which won't run on a platform 
other then Windows. You may consider Allocatus (http://www.allocatus.com) 
which integrates Project Server with Exchange Server, so that Team members 
can use Outlook Web Access which works with Linux Clients.

Hope this helps.

Renke

Project - Das Profibuch
http://www.holert.com/project/profibuch

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> Hi, I searched all over the internet trying to find a way to have linux
> users to access the PWA through IE, as firstly IE is not a linux thingy
> (oh really?), and secondly because using a wine/IE implementation just
> didn't work.
>
> the tip to get it running is to install the latest version of MDAC. we
> installed:
> - wine from deb packages (ubuntu)
> - cabextract from deb packages
> - ie4linux from <http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html>
> - MDAC 2.8 from <http://tinyurl.com/6xa89>
>
> it took us some time to figure out the MDAC thing, but other than that,
> everything went incredibly smooth.
>
> the only thing we could not get running was the 'Assign myself to an
> existing task' thing. We are about to switch everyone over to project
> server, and the issue we had was to get everyone to enter their
> timesheets on the browser (linux users). all the administrative tasks,
> like daily timesheets have to be assigned on a windows machine.
>
> Decided to post this here to help others.
>
> cheers,
> Fernando
>

date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:26:22 +0200   author:   Renke Holert [MVP]