A Possible Bug in MS Project Prof. Regarding Inactive Tasks

One of the projects in our EPM portfolio has encountered a problem with “Inactive Tasks”. I did an experiment with a sandbox project, and here is what I find:
If you “Inactivate” a task, or group of tasks, and then do “Update Project/Update Project through <date>” operation on the entire project, the inactive tasks are ALSO
updated. Trying to subsequently reactivate one or more tasks results in an error message about “Tasks with existing actuals cannot be inactivated”. Thus the inactive tasks are now useless!
I have searched the MS KB the best I know and find no reference to this problem. Our MS Project Pro clients are at Service Pack 2, no subsequent CUs or hotfixes.
JAckson T. Cole, PMP, MCITP

JacksonCole --
I did a quick experiment and can confirm your findings. What we are seeing is a design inconsistency with how Inactive tasks work with the Update Project functionality. The workaround is to use the Update Project functionality on selected
tasks versus the entire project. But given the behavior you see, I would not recommend using the Update Project functionality with the entire project, as it leads to the undesirable results you have already seen. Hope this helps.
Dale A. Howard [MVP]

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