Goal: Help protect project information - Project

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Goal: Help protect project information

Applies to
Microsoft Office Project 2003 Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 Microsoft Project 2000 and 2002

Project and Project Server offer basic security features that help protect your project information from unauthorized access.

Tip This article is part of a series of articles that describe a broad set of project management activities. We call these activities "goals" because they are organized around the project management life cycle: Build a plan, track and manage a project, and close a project. The project life cycle is outlined in The Project Map, where you can find a link to an article about each project management goal. Most of the articles include links to supporting information or procedures that you perform in Project or Project Server. These "goal" articles were designed to help you not only use Project but also better understand project management.

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number 1 Enter collaboration information for resources If you are using Project Server, you can choose between two types of authentication (authentication: The process of identifying a specific user and confirming that the user has permission to access Project Server.) methods for team members. The authentication method determines how users are identified and validated when they try to access Project Server.

Enter collaboration information for resources

Number 2 Read about Project Server security settings A number of factors affect the security of information in Project Server. Some are controlled by you and others are controlled by the Project Server administrator (administrator: Sets up and manages user accounts, assigns permissions, and helps users with network or server access issues. This person can also manage and customize various elements in Project Professional and in Project Server.). You may need to coordinate with the administrator to set the appropriate options for your project.

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Helping protect your project from unauthorized access gives you an overview of the security features in Project.
The Project Server 2003 Administrator's Guide is a downloadable file that gives the administrator (administrator: Sets up and manages user accounts, assigns permissions, and helps users with network or server access issues. This person can also manage and customize various elements in Project Professional and in Project Server.) more advanced information about specifying who has access to project information, views, and templates.
Create your own digital certificate shows you how to help protect your projects by using a self-signed electronic certificate.

Number 3 Change the security level for macro virus protection If you use macros (macro: An action or a set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.) in your project file, you need to specify the security level.

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Macro security levels explains the different levels of security you can apply to a macro and how macro virus protection works under each setting.
Help protect a project file with a password shows how to restrict access to a project.

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