Managing Project Professional’s Active Cache Size and Location

Two parameters help you manage the size and location of Project Professional 2007’s Active Cache (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\MS Project\Settings):

1.    CacheLocation

2.    CacheSizePerProfile

These two parameters are also accessible via Project Pro’s menu: Tools -> Local Project Cache -> Cache Settings

It is thus recommended to control via a Group Policy Object (GPO) these two parameters specially when Proj Pro. is deployed in a Terminal Server/Citrix environment.

For more information on how to use GPO with Office 2007 please refer to the following documents:

¾  Enforce settings by using Group Policy in the 2007 Office system

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9df1c7d2-30a9-47bb-a3b2-5166b394fbf51033.mspx?mfr=true

¾  2007 Office System Administrative Templates (ADM)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92d8519a-e143-4aee-8f7a-e4bbaeba13e7&displaylang=en

Please note 200MB is the minimum recommendation for the Cache Size Limit.