PS 2003 Domain Change

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Carolina

Hello,
I look up for some threads related with the information I need but no luck
so far.. Here the situation.

The technology team needs to change the domain, IP and servername for our
Project Server 2003. The database is on the same server (single server
installation)

Is there any document were we can find some instructions?
Have any one performed this activity sucessfully?
Are there any tips or consideration to take into account to perform this
activity?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

Carolina.
 
J

James Fraser

The technology team needs to change the domain, IP and servername for our
Project Server 2003. The database is on the same server (single server
installation)

Is there any document were we can find some instructions?
Have any one performed this activity sucessfully?
Are there any tips or consideration to take into account to perform this
activity?
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We have done this successfully in production at least once, and we do
this regularly for development and testing servers. We do not move the
actual hosting server from one domain to the other, though.

For the production instance, our method was to build a clean Project
Server in the new domain, and then restore the old projectserver
database into the new environment.

Connect to the newly built project server as a projectserver
authenticated user with Admin rights and open all of the resource pool
in Project Professional. Add the Windows Account column to the
resource view, and there you can do an automatic replace of "olddomain
\" with "newdomain\"

For any users that are not in the resource pool, you will need to
manually edit their attributes in PWA to use the new domain user name.

In this case we were not using AD sync. I don't know of any
documentation addressing this subject, but I think it went more
smoothly than expected for us...



Hope that helps...
James Fraser
 
C

Carolina

Thanks for your quick reply.

We tried this approch with our test server some time ago, but we had problem
with the sharepoint server. We lost the site and documents related to the
projects.

Did you have this problem? How you solved? or did we miss some steps?

Thanks in advance.
Carolina V.
 
J

James Fraser

Thanks for your quick reply.

We tried this approch with our test server some time ago, but we had problem
with the sharepoint server. We lost the site and documents related to the
projects.

Did you have this problem? How you solved? or did we miss some steps?
Click to expand...

In the production instance that we switched, we did not copy the
sharepoint sites, but we have done this in test environments. The
SharePoint sites are contained in the WSS_Content database (That's the
default name, yours may be different.) This content database can be
attached to a different SharePoint Server and it will essentially
recreate the sites under the new sharepoint site (http://newsite/sites/
projectserver_100/ for example.)

If the server url has changed, you will need to reenter the new
SharePoint site url for each project in the PWA interface, in addition
to the main WSS settings PWA page. I've tried doing this directly in
the database and it has not gone well.

Another tedious bit will be if the users' domain has changed, as the
sites will still have permissions for the old domain users. I haven't
tested this extensively, but I think that synchronizing the
permissions from Project Server should clean up the permissions.


James Fraser
 
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