Using Group Policies to manage the ProjectWise BRG Registry Keys (updated 9-25-13 v0.3).
Since some old ProjectWise BRG settings are now stored in the Windows Registry it makes them available to be managed by Windows Group Policies. This allows you to administratively set things such as the Document Creation Wizard defaults across all your users. The link to download the ADMX templates can be found at the end of this…
Ever wish you could be notified when a fetchfiles or robocopy job was done? Well here are two PowerShell scripts that can send you an e-mail when the job is done and attach the log to the e-mail. If you run in to any issues drop me an e-mail but note these are not Bentley supported scripts.
These scripts aren’t signed so you will ether need to sign them or adjust your script execution policy, not sure what I’m talking about…
The many ways of configuring the ProjectWise Network Control Panel (how to deal with roaming users)
In a perfect world, users would stay in one place so we could set down one configuration and never worry about it. In the real World users move from office to office, hotel to Client, home to Starbucks, and expect ProjectWise to figure out how to connect. While we could try to explain to the user how to change their network…
When users move from site to site to home it can be hard to make sure they are pointed at the right gateway server. The PW Network Autoconfig script is designed to help with that by trying to auto-configure ProjectWise network control panel based on where it thinks the client is on (or off) your network.Note – this is only one of many ways to setup projectwise network control panel for your users. While this has fit the…
Using Group Policies to manage the ProjectWise Network Control Panel.
Configuring the ProjectWise Network Control Panel in an environment with a large number of systems, especially when they are spread out over a number of sites with roaming users can be very problematic. To make things easier these settings have been placed in to Group Policy template files allowing you to centrally manage the settings. The link to…
Microsoft provides password expiration and password change options though IIS which can be used with ProjectWise Web Parts ASPX and ProjectWise Web Parts SharePoint sites. It should be noted that this solution is based completely on a Microsoft components that Bentley has no control over. This procedure should also work for web parts however…