Problem accessing Project Portfolio Server 2007

[Participant]

Hi,

I am facing a problem in accessing the website for Portfolio
http://myserver/PortfolioServer
it displays a login screen and I have tried every credential I have and it
failed and displayed an error stating that the credentials are invalid. I
have even changed the authentication mode in web.config file to Forms mode as
follows:

" <customErrors mode="off"/>
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="appNameAuth" path="/" loginUrl="login.aspx"
protection="All" timeout="30">
<credentials passwordFormat="Clear">
<user name="test" password="test" />


</credentials>
</forms>
</authentication>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>

 

[Paul Conroy]

The account used during the install is the super user account which you use
to create the admin user account.

NT & Application authentication is setup within the app and not the web
config file after you have created your admin account.

Can I suggest you uninstall and start from a clean slate and refrain from
changing the authentication section of the web.config.

 

[Participant]

Thanks Paul but I have also tried to uninstall and install again Portfolio
Server 2007 and still I am not able to access. Could you please tell me
whether do I have do uninstall Microsoft Project Server as well or not?
Moroeover, do you know at which step it asks (or I can change) the super user
password since I only see credentials for the DB in the installation and not
the potfolio?

Regards

 

[Paul Conroy]

Re-installing Project server is unnecessary.

The super user account is the NT user account which was used to install
Portfolio Server. The password is changed in AD Users and Computers (or
local account management).

 

[Participant]

This is really strange since I have done that more than once but still I was
not able to access using my account (My account password is not changed in
AD). I have removed Portfolio Server (using Portfolio CD) and installed the
software again using my account but still I am not able to access. Is there
anything else?

Regards

 

[Hisham]

Hi:

I have into this issue before, I had to reinstall PPS2007 several times, I
got the first login screen which gave me a breath then I stucked with the
username and password ... etc

Have you created an SQL User for your Windows User which is used for the
installtion?

You need to created a user account on SQL Server with the required
credentials as per the PPS deployment guide, this is needed before installing
PPS.

Regards,
Hisham.