Sharepoint services templates

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UAN

How do I change and manage templates sites for WSS on Project Server 2003?

Thanks,

UAN
 
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Erica

My dropdown box is empty. I believe this is causing me a lot of problems (I
can't create sites for my projects manually or automatically). Aside from
that, I can't connect to SharePoint through https.. but my biggest concern
right now is the fact that I don't see any templates. I can create WSS sites
on the SharePoint server (it's on a separate server) fine using the Project
Template because I ran the WSS wiz and got the template that way.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Erica
 
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Aaron Tamblyn

Hi Erica,

I have encountered this problem before when developing custom templates
where there is a problem with the template. Can you please provide some
feedback to these questions.

- Have you created a custom template or are you only using the default
template?

- Do you have a two server setup or are there more servers such as Front End
servers in the DMZ used for Extranet access(I note the reference to SSL)?

- Is this a new problem or has it been behaving this way since the install?

- What service packs are running on WSS and Project Server?
 
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Erica

Aaron,

Thanks for the reply.

Well, last week when we were testing under http everything worked fine as
far as I know. I never took a look at the Site Provisioning Settings page,
but I am going to assume that a Project Template existed in the drop down box
because we were able to create sites per project manually and they were
Project WSS sites. Now when I try to create a site under the "Manage
SharePoint Sites" page, I get the error "Cannot create site. Site does not
seem to exist." So I go to the Site Provisioning Settings page, and
absolutely no template exists in the drop down box for template. No default
one, no custom one. I read on a newsgroup about creating a custom one and
importing one, so I did that based on the Project template and even that
didn't show up. I have saved the settings of the two owners and two valid
emails (and we are both domain admins).

We have 2 servers: 1 hosts Project Server which is running SSL, and we have
another server which has WSS and currently running SSL. I work in a
government environment, and SSL is a requirement for all of our servers that
will be accessed from outside of our network.

It seems to be a new problem only when we turned on SSL on the SharePoint
server. I have read a lot of stuff on the newsgroups regarding this problem,
but none of them have fixed my error and only a few have mentioned the
problem with the templates, which I think is related. Whenever I try to
connect to SharePoint, I get the dreaded cannot connect error. It all worked
fine under http.

I am running Project Server SP2a and WSS SP2.

Thanks again,
Erica
 
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Greg G

Any solutions to this problem yet? We are having the same issue when trying
to access our SP Portal server through Project Server. Our dropdown box is
empty as well.

Thanks,
Greg
 
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Erica

Greg,

I don't know if you are able to connect to SharePoint or not, but we have
narrowed it down to the fact that not being able to connect to SharePoint is
causing problems with the templates. We went into the source code and saw
that the variable is based upon the connection-- and the connection right now
is saved as http because that was the last "working" connection. However,
since we have SSL required in IIS and Project can't seem to recognize it, it
won't connect and the link is broken to SharePoint. Therefore it is trying to
find templates under some listing as "http" even though it can't. The setting
needs to be changed to our new "https" setting but it just won't connect for
some reason... we saw in the code that we can change the variable's value,
but that really isn't a good idea and we would rather contact Microsoft.

Hope that makes some sense. Basically our templates aren't showing up
because it's not connecting to SharePoint, and the templates are supposed to
come through SharePoint. At least that's how we are interpreting it at this
point. I have done extensive research through newsgroups and KB articles, and
none of the solutions have worked at this point. I don't know if you have
tried running the proycfg setting or changed the registry setting for
extranet (which doesn't help me, anyways, because it is a requirement for me
to have SSL turned on through IIS rather than "faking" it through registry
settings in Project), but you could search for those solutions/workarounds
and see if they help you regarding connection issues if in fact that is part
of your problem.


Erica
 
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Erica

In my post, I meant "proxycfg" not "proycfg." Sorry. Also, I meant changing
registry settings on the server hosting Project Server.

Erica
 
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Greg G

We are in the same boat as you. We also are govt and have to have the ssl
enabled. I am going to open a ticket with MS Premier support and see if we
can get a resolution. I'll let you know if I find out anything.

Thanks,
Greg
 
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Erica

Thanks, Greg. I appreciate any help you might be able to give. I am going to
talk to my sponsors tomorrow and see about support... I'm not sure what type
of agreement we have with MS, if at all.

Erica
 
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Aaron Tamblyn

Do you require SSL for all access to the server or just external access? I
understand that if you have the Project Server in a DMZ you would want SSL.
If you locate it in your internal network do you still have the SSL
requirement. The MS Project Server Configuration Planning guide suggests
setting up Project Server with a Front End Server in the Internal Zone on
http and a Front end server in the DMZ on SSL. In this case the WSS
connection works.

I have been through your problem with a customer before and resolved it on a
single server by creating an additional IIS site (http) and pointing it to
the same location as the WSS content site. I then used this site for the WSS
connection in PWA Admin. It also required setting up the Extranet
configuration as detailed in the installation guide.
 
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limniatis

I am having the same problem. I can create project workspace sites. My client
had installed sharepoint about a year ago and I tried to instal project
server a few manths back.

The existing sharepoint site continues to work and Projectserver including
PWA works.

The only problem I have is I cannot create automatically or manually project
workspace for any projects I publish
 
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