Tom works as a Project Manager for company.com Inc. The company uses Microsoft Project to schedule a project. Tom has created a resource in his contract-based project. You are also a project manager at the same company as Tom. You will also be using the same contract-based employee for assignments in your project. When you go to assign tasks to the contractor, however, you cannot find the account among the enterprise resources. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the problem?

A.
The contract-based employee must be defined in your project before you can use it in the enterprise.

B.
The contract-based employee was defined in Tom’s project team and is not an enterprise resource.

C.
The project is offline.

D.
The contract-based employee was defined in Tom’s version of Microsoft Project and not in the enterprise.

Explanation:
The most likely cause of the problem is that the contract-based employee was defined locally in Tom’s Microsoft Project and not in the enterprise. When this happens, no one else can access the account because it is local to Tom’s Microsoft Project and not a shared resource in the resource pool. Local individual resources are resources that represent individuals in your organization and that are defined and created in a single Microsoft Project schedule only. Local resources are available for task assignments in the project schedule in which they are defined and saved, but cannot be used for other projects.
Answer option B is incorrect. The contract was created in Microsoft Project, not in a project team. Answer option A is incorrect. You do not need to define the contractor in your Microsoft Project to use it in the enterprise. It is actually the opposite; define the resource in the enterprise to use it in your project.
Answer option C is incorrect. This is not the likely cause of the problem, as the question states you cannot find it among the enterprise resources. You would receive other errors if your project was offline.
What is a non-enterprise resource?
A non-enterprise resource is a resource that is not a part of the list of resources for the whole organization. It is also known as a local resource. A local resource cannot use any of the functionality of Project Web Access. No other project managers can use a nonenterprise resource, defined by another project manager, in their projects. A non-enterprise resource represents an individual in an organization. It is defined and created in a single Microsoft Project schedule only. It is available for task assignments in the project schedule in which it is defined and saved, but cannot be used for other projects.