Connecting to Windows SharePoint Services - 2003

Use the link to the page of SharePoint Server to specify the information needed to connect the project jogging Sever 2003 to a Web server running Windows SharePoint Services. The root path of a server running Windows SharePoint Services must exist when the team jogging Project Server 2003 connects to the server running Windows SharePoint Services. The URL of the server running Windows SharePoint Services must always focus on a top-level site in the virtual server root. If the top-level site at the root of the server running Windows SharePoint Services does not exist or is a redirect in place, the connection will fail. For example, if the direction of Windows SharePoint Services is http://MyServer:80/projects, the connection will only work if this URL is a higher level and feel



The Connect to SharePoint server page in Project Web Access.

To specify connection information for a server running Windows SharePoint Services

1. In Project Web Access Manager, in the side pane under Actions, click Manage Windows SharePoint Services .

2. In the side pane, under Options, click Connect to SharePoint server.

3. On the Connect to SharePoint server page, under Enter information on the web server running Windows SharePoint Services, in the SharePoint Central Administration URL box, type the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the SharePoint Central Administration page.

4. Create a site at this URL box SharePoint, SharePoint managed type route address of the server running Windows SharePoint Services that will host the site collections for projects. The SharePoint Managed Path is the address of the server running Windows SharePoint Services sites and appended to it. For example, http://serverName:80/sites.

5. Optionally, type the extranet address for the server running Windows SharePoint Services SharePoint Extranet Address box. This URL is a path and Managed SharePoint URL. When you enter the address of the Windows SharePoint Services extranet, you must also ensure that the extranet address is entered in the computer jogging Project Server 2003. You can specify the direction for the team extranet jogging Project Server 2003 in the server configuration section of the Admin page. 6. Perform the following validation steps before saving your changes:


# Verify that the SharePoint Central Administration URL is valid. Click the Test URL hyperlink to the right of the box SharePoint Central Administration URL to go to the page. You should be able to view the content of the page or receive a login. To view the content of the page, the current administrator logon account must have administrative access to the server running Windows SharePoint Services.


# Check that the Windows account (domain \ user) used to create the project for Windows SharePoint Services server administrator COM + application has permissions to the SharePoint Administration account. Log on to the server running Windows SharePoint Services as domain \ username (specified in the local user interface) and go to the SharePoint Central Administration page in the Administrative Tools menu. Note that Project Server 2003 to remotely manage the Web server running Windows SharePoint Services with this domain name. To change this account information, you must rerun the draft COM + server configuration tool (Pscomplus.exe) and then restart the account.


# Check that site documents public is valid. Click on Public Documents Site URL to go to the page. You ought to be able to view the content of the page or receive a login. To view the content of the page, the current administrator logon account must have at least read only access to the site. The documents for the public site is automatically created when you run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard during the installation of Project Server.

7.Click Save Changes.