Project 2010 Group Policy
By blurg64
Since the release of Project 2010, a few people have been asking in the forums on how to restrict or configure functionality of Project administratively. The Office 2010 Group Policy Administrative templates outline the various settings of Office that can be configured via Group Policy so organisations can centrally ‘configure’ aspects of Office 2010 for their users.
Given some of the new features in Project 2010 such as manually scheduled and inactive tasks could be quite confusing until a user has had a chance to undergo training, this is a valuable tool in ensuring some of those new features can be turned off until the user has been trained to use them.
Most of the group policy settings have remained the same between Project 2007 and 2010, but with a few notable additions, which are outlined below:
| Policy setting name |
| Set default start date for new tasks |
| Set new tasks to be automatically scheduled |
| Update manually scheduled tasks when editing links |
| Tasks can be made inactive |
| Keep tasks on nearest working day |
| Show tasks schedule warnings |
| Show tasks schedule suggestions |
| Automatically add new items to the global project |
You can grab a spreadsheet giving an overview of the Group Policy changes between Office 2007 and 2010 from here, or the Administrative Templates used to configure group policy from here (2007) or here (2010).