Error Creating Sharepoint Site for a Project

[Jeanine Earley]

I receive the following error when trying to create a Sharepoint site
for one of our projects. Note: I can successfully create a site for
50 other projects we have published, but for some reason, this one
provides an error.

Error occured when creating this site. Site does not seem to exist.

I have been reading through the other postings regarding this error
and have tried the suggestions with no success. The KB article from MS
- adding the email address in the SITE PROVISIONING page did not work.

Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance.

Jeanine Earley
CheckFree Corporation

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Jeanine:

It may be corruption in the particular project. If every other plan extends
a site and ONLY this one doesn't, I'd say that's a fairly strong indication.
You might try to save the project as an mpp file, delete the one on the
server and import the file again using Import Project to Enterprise and
republish the plan.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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[Jeanine Earley]

I'm going to give it whirl! Thanks for the information...I've never
used the Import Project feature before, so we'll see how it goes.
I'll let you know.

Thanks again for your quick response.

Jeanine

 

[Jeanine Earley]

It didn't work. I saved the file to my local computer and renamed it.
I then reopened Project Pro and used the Import Project to
Enterprise. The import worked successfully and I compared the two
projects - both look exactly the same (actuals) and both open via the
enterprise with no problem. But when I try to create a Sharepoint
site off the new project, I received the same error. I'm not sure if
there are any other potential options.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

The only follow-up suggestion is to save it in XML format rather than as an
mpp when trying the same exercise again. Otherwise I'm uncertain whether to
advise you to recreate the project plan or create the site manually and move
forward from there.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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[Jeanine Earley]

Well, it turns out that a project title cannot contain an ampersand if
you want to have a Sharepoint site linked to it. I saved the project
locally and imported it back, but changed the name by removing the
ampersand & symbol and a site successfully created.

FYI to anyone interested.

Jeanine