Windows Sharepoint services Project Server problems

[Simon Dullingham]

Guys,

I'm posting a solution here to some problems that I recently had:

Problem: The Windows Sharepoint services integration with Project Server fails with a message to contact your administrator. This is seen on the home pages as well as when trying to access risks and issues. Sharepoint itself works fine. All the standard things (check user accounts, port number, authorization, PScomplus, etc. do not resolve the problem.

Solution: This is a problem with Windows Update services for Windows Server 2003. I had a problem running windows update on my server. After getting paid support from Microsoft, I was told to run "procycfg -d" then stop and start the windows update service. Sure enough, windows update starts to work. However, Sharepoint integration is now broken!! Does this mean I get my $99 back?

To fix this, you must re-run proxycfg as follows:

proxycfg -d -p "ProxyServer" "local;servername;ipaddress; FQDN"
iisreset

If you do this, windows sharepoint now starts working. But guess what - Windows Update now fails. To fix that, run proxycfg -d - but don't expect Sharepoint integration with Project Server to be working!

Obviously, someone at MSFT needs to start working on this and address this problem as it has taken me ages to finally narrow down what is going on.

If anyone has had similar problems as per my previous emails on this (search the forum for my posts), then this will fix it.

Simon

 

[Manfred]

Project Server is at

microsoft.public.project.server

Manfred

Guys,

I'm posting a solution here to some problems that I recently had:

Problem: The Windows Sharepoint services integration with Project Server
fails with a message to contact your administrator. This is seen on the home
pages as well as when trying to access risks and issues. Sharepoint itself
works fine. All the standard things (check user accounts, port number,
authorization, PScomplus, etc. do not resolve the problem.

Solution: This is a problem with Windows Update services for Windows Server
2003. I had a problem running windows update on my server. After getting
paid support from Microsoft, I was told to run "procycfg -d" then stop and
start the windows update service. Sure enough, windows update starts to
work. However, Sharepoint integration is now broken!! Does this mean I get
my $99 back?

To fix this, you must re-run proxycfg as follows:

proxycfg -d -p "ProxyServer" "local;servername;ipaddress; FQDN"
iisreset

If you do this, windows sharepoint now starts working. But guess what -
Windows Update now fails. To fix that, run proxycfg -d - but don't expect
Sharepoint integration with Project Server to be working!

Obviously, someone at MSFT needs to start working on this and address this
problem as it has taken me ages to finally narrow down what is going on.

If anyone has had similar problems as per my previous emails on this (search
the forum for my posts), then this will fix it.

Simon

 

[Manfred]

Sorry about the idiotic earlier posting.

I thought I was still in the sharepoint.portalserver newsgroup (which is
listed next in my list)

Manfred

Guys,

I'm posting a solution here to some problems that I recently had:

Problem: The Windows Sharepoint services integration with Project Server
fails with a message to contact your administrator. This is seen on the home
pages as well as when trying to access risks and issues. Sharepoint itself
works fine. All the standard things (check user accounts, port number,
authorization, PScomplus, etc. do not resolve the problem.

Solution: This is a problem with Windows Update services for Windows Server
2003. I had a problem running windows update on my server. After getting
paid support from Microsoft, I was told to run "procycfg -d" then stop and
start the windows update service. Sure enough, windows update starts to
work. However, Sharepoint integration is now broken!! Does this mean I get
my $99 back?

To fix this, you must re-run proxycfg as follows:

proxycfg -d -p "ProxyServer" "local;servername;ipaddress; FQDN"
iisreset

If you do this, windows sharepoint now starts working. But guess what -
Windows Update now fails. To fix that, run proxycfg -d - but don't expect
Sharepoint integration with Project Server to be working!

Obviously, someone at MSFT needs to start working on this and address this
problem as it has taken me ages to finally narrow down what is going on.

If anyone has had similar problems as per my previous emails on this (search
the forum for my posts), then this will fix it.

Simon