Strange Behavior in Project Service 2007 - Project Workspace linki

[Sam4m]

don’t know what happened, but out of sudden, the Microsoft Project Server
(2007) was crashed. I recovered the tool (Resources, views, customized
values... etc) and skimmed through it to make sure I didn’t lose anything. It
was ok except for documents and project workspaces:

Project Workspaces links are there, projects schedules are there (in Project
Center, and can be opened in MS Project after connected to Project Server),
tasks are shown in "My Tasks" and we can report timesheets against projects'
tasks.

But, when I click on project workspace link, nothing is shown, link is
broken. When I go to "Project Workspaces" I can find all projects but with no
links provided and I cannot add proper (or orignal) link there. Moreover,
when I go to "Site Settings" and then to "Sites and Workspaces" I don’t find
the Projects Workspaces there.

I open an existing project schedule from the MS Project 2007 (Connected to
Project Server 2007), it saves and publishes well, but I cannot link it to
Project Workspace. Provisioning is not working for existing schedule since it
says project already exists or when I do the provisioning manually with the
same name, it gives me another ProjectUID, and the new workspace shows for
both the original link and the newly created project workspace. (Two
workspaces exist and pointing to the same project)

I can create new schedules and project workspaces in the project server, but
I need to get the exisitng workspaces.

Have I lost the data of the workspaces? can anybody advice?

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Sounds like during the recovery you might've provisioned a new site collection
for PWA with a slightly different URL? That would account for this behavior.

Here's what I'd recommend:

1) Go to the Project Workspaces in Server Settings. Manually attempt to
link an existing project with the existing project workspace URL.
2) If that works, either continue the process manually, or download the MOPS07
Site Relinker tool and it will scan your projects and workspaces to relink
them all.

That being said, you might note that the URLs for PWA and your workspaces
may not match. This may/may not be an issue for you, and you'll need to
check the workspaces carefully to make sure nothing else is broken. If it's
only a couple of workspaces, yoy might be able to live with it.

The general recommendation I would make is to deploy PWA and the workspaces
into separate site collections. It's a bit more work, but easier to wipe
PWA and reprovision it in the future without messing up the workspaces.

-A

 

[Sam4m]

Thank you for the input. I tired it but it did not work.

Moreover, I found a support link in MS site:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963124

My case matches the action of Method 2 there. But it did not work, the
export command did not find workspaces to export. Even the relinker took did
not find any web site to link. I guess workspaces are lost

Sam4m