Add users to PWA site with forms authentication

[Andrei Zakharov]

Hi,

I try to create forms authentication for PWA site. The Web application that
hosts PWA site is under forms authentication by itself and works properly a
long time. Then I installed Project Server 2007 and now try to tune forms
authentication for PWA site as well. The problem is that when I go to PWA,
the PWA recognizes the already existing users in forms authentication DB
(aspnetdb in SQL server), but since they don't belong to any group yet PWA
writes "Access denied", etc.

"stsadm -o projenumusers" outputs only SERVER\Administrator Windows user. I
can't use it to logon into PWA with forms authentication, because it's
Windows account. And "stsadm -o projmodifyuseringroup -groupname
Administrators -username User -addorremove add" respectively outputs
"Command line error: username not found.", though it's in forms
authentication DB, but ProjectServer knows nothing about it yet.

How is it to add users to Project Server 2007 when they already exist in
forms authentication DB? I had read
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Offic...56f7-4399-ad28-15ac35e8723d1033.mspx?mfr=true,
but they're talking about situations when users are whether migrated from
old Project Server or being created from the ground up.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Andrei Zakharov]

Found a workaround. Quite ago I had tuned the hosting Web app so that Office
Search Service will be able to crawl the content of the site with forms
authentication. Detailed explanation of that is here
http://wsssearch.com/formauthentication.html. After that I had two sites
with the same content but different authentication: old one uses forms, the
newly one - NTLM. So, I can logon on to PWA site with both methods and since
SERVER\Administrator already exists in Project Server, I had a chance to
logon with Administrator's Windows account credentials and then through
Project Server Web UI I added forms authenticated users.