Re: setting default global.mpt location without Policy

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Pat Dotbat wrote:
I really hope someone can help - this has got me stumped.

I'm trying to apply a setting to a large number of machines to dictate the global.mpt that each uses.
The file is bing copied to the path specified in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\MS Project\GlobalSearch]
"RootKey"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office11\\1033"
yet the success of applying this registry setting is barely 50% of machines - it seems that security on that key is such that a non-admin user cannot change it.
I've search the proj11.adm and can't locate any reference to that location, either.
My questions are:
1. is there some other 'overriding' setting which dictates where any machine will look for global.mpt?
2. how is the 'Policies' key set, if not via GPO, and if I (for example) modify the hku\.default value, how can I force this to apply to any logged on user.

I'm curious the reason why you want a standard and single global.mpt location for everyone? I don't think that a good idea unless absolutely everyone needs to use one shared global.mpt. If everyone useing same (and if that works) I can imaging chaos with everyone wanting their own stuff in the "global" global.mpt and of courase no everyone will want that.

Project has rules for how it looks for global.mpt. I, or example, work with a special global.mpt with each project I'm working on. Each project has it's own. To use a specific global.mpt, it's only necessary to start Project with the "startup folder" to be where that specific global.mpt to be and used.

If someone *told" me as a Project Manager which global.mpt I *had* to use, I would not be a happy camper! :-)

So, before we explore this further, why do you want this?
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