The other day I was assisting a client changing the URL to their SharePoint environment. They are also running PWA under this site. The name change went very smoothly and I thought everything was running great. I had removed the old URL from the AAM and set the old site to redirect in IIS so anyone typing in the old URL would be taken to the new one.
My joy at the success was short lived. Shortly after completing I got an email that user were getting errors when trying to upload files, view/edit file properties, pretty much anything with a file in a document library. They were getting the error "File not Found". I tested it out myself on the root site and it worked fine, I asked for examples and they were only have the problems on the PWA Project Workspaces. I dug into the SharePoint log files and apparently something in PWA was still referencing the old URL. I thought to myself, great, do I need to leave the old site running to? Doing some searching, I found this post that solved the problem.
Apparently PWA puts an absolute URL in the content databases. If this doesn’t exists you get the error. The good news, you don’t need to modify the content database (something you should never do anyways). Even better, the site doesn’t even need to be running, just add the URL back into AAM (even if the site doesn’t exists in IIS..or in my case is redirecting) and everything goes back to working as expected.
Tags: SharePoint, PWA
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Ben Project Server 2007, SharePoint
I had a client ping me yesterday with this problem. I popped open my test environment and it worked fine…so what would cause the Link button to disappear at the top of my Issues and Risk lists in my Project Server 2007 Project Workspace within SharePoint?
I figured it had to be a column since it’s a SharePoint list, and everything is a column. So I opened up my Issues list settings settings in the environment I’m troubleshooting, no column. I looked at my test environment…there is the column. Where did it go? I know the client didn’t just got in and delete on column. Its not in my site columns anywhere, it’s just gone. So, I went to my Project Server resource database…Google. After a short time searching I found this excellent post by Brian Smith. Sure enough, that was the problem, we had installed all 40 of Microsoft Fabulous 40 site templates and our Project Server 2007 project workspace had been overwritten, therefore removing the Links column. We went through the steps document by Brian, and presto! We can now link our Issues and Risk in our Project Workspace to tasks in Project Server 2007.
So, for those of you who have this problem, read Brian’s post on how to fix it. For those of you that are looking to install Project Server 2007 and the Fabulous 40 Templates, don’t install the Project Tracking Workspace solution!
Ben Project Server 2007
I’m back after way to long of not blogging. I have a few posts to catch up on as well. I was taking a little “vacation” a coupe of weeks ago up in Michigan to get my wisdom teeth removed. It wasn’t a whole lot of fun, but I made it safely through and have recovered nicely.
As soon as I got back from vacation I had to travel to Houston, TX for work and spent the week there. Upon returning home from Houston, my week this week was filled up with some Project Server training. With all the SharePoitn work I’ve been doing, I’ve been getting more and more into Project Server 2007 as well and how it fits into SharePoint. This week I finally decided to get some in depth training on it to help make me even a better consultant. As I do more and more with Project Server don’t be surprised to if Project Server blog posts start showing up on here.
So, now that I’m done with all that, I decided I would take some time and update you on what I’ve been doing as well as get caught up on some overdue blog posts.
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