Issues with Sharepoint Site Creation??

D

D Web

Starting roughly 3 days ago, Sharepoint sites are no longer getting created
when Projects are published to out Project Server. Up until today, I could
manualy create the sites that didn't get created by using the administrative
functions but when I tried that process this morning, I receive a VB Script
error - "Error occurred when creating site. Site does not seem to exist."

We installed SP1 several months ago. After receiving the error message this
morning, I ran the wsswiz.exe utility to reinitialize the sharepoint settings
and I ran iisreset to restart the web server but neither seemed to help.

Does anyone else have any other suggestions? I would really like to know
why the sites aren't getting created automatically but at this point I would
settle for just being able to create them through the administrative
functions again. (that was working yesterday)
 
K

KnightFall1

I have seen this exact error when there was a problem with the template you
are using in Project Web Access to create Project Server-based Sharepoint
sites.

You can see which template Project Web Access is using by click Admin ->
Manage Windows Sharepoint Services -> Site Provisioning Settings -> Site
Template field.

Project Server 2003 has a default template called "Project WorkSpace" it
creates but you can also add new ones using the STSADM command. See if there
is another template available in the Site Template dropdown field you can try
and then attempt to recreate another Sharepoint site. Hope that helps.
 
C

Cory K. Walker

This sometimes can also happen when you don't have an email address right
below the site collection owner's name.

Check the KB article on it. Just type in the error message and you'll find
it.
 
D

D Web

Thanks for your input Knightfall and Cory.

Turns out the problem was a full transaction log on the sharepoint database.
That log was only being backed up weekly but it's now set to be backed up
nightly.

The errors I was getting back were definitely not pointing to the
transaction logs so that may be something for everyone to take note of and
remember in the future.
 
N

Novica B

I had the same problem and found the error occured when there were symbols in
the Project name. If you have a @#$%^&* in there, it plays games with the WSS
template and doesn't allow for creation.
 
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