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Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine) · 1 year ago

Great article Neil. Good to see excellent content coming out of South Africa !!! Loved your use of screenshots. thanks :)

Neil · 1 year ago

Thanks Arno.
I think I will be writing and article on Hyper V and the MOSS deployment environments next.

Eric Safin · 1 year ago

Neil, thanks for a very comprehensive guide. It was very helpful. I have a question about more detailed integration of the TFS and Project Server 2007.

My company is in the midst of planning of integrating TFS 2008 and Project Server 2007. Currently, TFS contains all production service requests in Work Items folder in the TFS. This is how the requests for application maintenance are entered by the tier support personnel. Work items are broken down by a specific maintenance project (App Maintenance, Imagewrite Maintenance etc.)

Project Server contains related project plans and all resource allocation information (through Project Central and Resource Central of the Project Server). The project plans published for the maintenance projects contain all tasks associated with the maintenance cycle (single request or potential application release). This helps us to allocate time per resource dedicated only to the maintenance project.

Is there a way of mapping Work items in the TFS (as they being submitted to the TFS on weekly basis) to project plans published in Project Server? Can you point me to a source of information on this issue?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Eric Safin

Valerio · 1 year ago

Hi Eric,
I think this is what are you searching for.

http://www.codeplex.com/pstfsconnector

Bye
Valerio

neilvw · 1 year ago

Hi Eric

I have not encountered anyone or even anything on the Internet relating to what you are trying to do. It does make sense to me why you would do this.
I will attempt to find a solution for you and let you know.

Regards
Neil van Wyngaard

Megan · 1 year ago

Thanks for the article. I am an EPM Specialist for our organization here in Durban and am currently investigating the installation of the VSTF connector for one of our departments, so nice to see the WSS integration too in case we go down this route.

Half Abude · 1 year ago

Very good Neil!
In my opinion, VSTS is more complicated than it should be. I found Project Server 2007 much more easy to set up, diagnose and control. As you, I'm also from a partner that uses A LOT all Microsoft Technologies, and I'm in charge of our EPM environment. I've noticed that your "Reports" folder is marked with a red cross, do you know why? The same happens in my env!

Wes MacDonald · 12 months ago

The red "X" is present because permissions must be set at each tier, you must grant the user access to SSRS and WSS sites independently.

Harpreet · 11 months ago

What should I do if Project Server 2007 and TeamFoundation Server 2008 WSS is on different servers ?

Harpreet

rsmyers2 · 10 months ago

Thank You very Much Neil.. my issue is a bit more basic.

I can't get SharePoint 2007, Project Server 2007, and TFS 2008 to install.
I get SharePoint and Project together kay.. but no success at all with TFS 2008.
Every attempt brings a new error from missing templates.. extensions.. userid issues..

Is there a documented procedure out there that for installaing these 3 applications on the same server ?

Grammy Leung · 10 months ago

Cool! Really Cool!! Damn Cool!!! i will follow this and try to make it be done! thx alot!

Grammy Leung · 10 months ago

Hi, i have a question to neil, in the m$ official webbroadcast, an idea introduced that to use a connector to make it synchronized between tfs-ps. do u think it workable? thx.

nirav · 10 months ago

Hi Neil,
I am working in similar environment where we integrate TFS and MOSS2007. There is no PS in picture.
As you said that for each project a separate site collection is getting created in MOSS. I have tried to see the Project collection in MOSS from administrative site, but I could not find any such site collection. For example...
My project site is http://projectMoss/sites/MyProject

As MyProject is a site collection created on MOSS I sould be able to see its entry in list of existing site collection on MOSS.
But I could not found such site collection there.
I want to access top level site of this collection in one of my webpart on the home page of my intranet site which is MOSS2007

niravpatel · 10 months ago

hello Neil,
A very good article and very useful one for me.
I have a query, I will be thankful if you will be able to solve it.

In our company intranet we have integrated TFS and MOSS2007. As I read in this article is that each project site is created as a new site collection in MOSS, I did not find a single site collection for the projects in the compan. I have tried to find out the entry of SiteCollection for a particular project in MOSS from Administrative site, but I could not find such sitecollection. Eventhough I can access the projectsite collection through url in my browser.

Actually I want to access top level site's data of this project sitecollection into a custom webpart. But I could not being able to see the site collection in the list of site collection in MOSS.

Richard Medina · 10 months ago

Neal, this is a great comment. I will take the opportunity to read it over in detail and implement in my current environment, very similar to yours except for the fact that I run WSS 3.0 in both instances instead of MOSS. Any special 'tips' toward this fact, will be pretty much appreciated.

tony cosentino · 8 months ago

Great article! Do you know if you can use TeamPlain Web Access with project server? It seems after integrating project server with TFS, you get the standard SharePoint interface. I want to use the TeamPlain Web Access interface with TFS and project server.

Romel · 7 months ago

New to this whole sharepoint world... have project server 2007 and TFS 2008 on seperate servers. When I go to the site features of the TFS to enable the "Features" project server requires they are not listed; all I have is "Team Collaboration Lists" listed so I am unable to activate those feautures. Is there a way to get those Project Server specific site features over onto my TFS sharepoint site?

Paulo Santos · 4 months ago

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John1974 · 3 months ago

Hello there!

I am unable to get this working as I am unable to accomplish the step where you have to assign a Project WorkSpace!

When I go to Server Settings -> Operational Policies -> Project Workspaces and Edit Site Address:

I do not get an option to change the SharePoint Site URL to TFS sharepoint URL. The "Web Application" drop down only lists the Project Server.

Thanks in advance

Cheers!
John

viniciusmoura · 3 months ago

Neil,
This guide is very funny. I connect perfectly VSTS and Project Server. On my case, I have two servers, VSTS Server and Project Server.
But I have only one doubt. On last step, "Edit WorkSpace Address", What do I put? The URL of VSTS Server or URL of Project Server? On Publish Project, I already created the WorkSpace. Is It correct?

Best Regards.

hakankk · 2 months ago

Hi,
I have a problem. I could not find an answer however make a big search in the web. And I decided to ask this problem to the experts of this issue..
I installed teamserver to my windows server2003(updated)(With the guide of installation-step by step-) And it has succeeded..
Then I Wanted to install project server 2007 too. But I could not.
When Installing ProjectServer 2007, Installation is OK. When it has finished a screen which has "configuring sharepoint" checkbox" AndI checked it, OK. And I encountered this error here (In the error log file) :

"
An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown. Additional exception information: Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException: Exception of type \'Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException\' was thrown.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()"

I have tried this(all installation steps -beginning from sqlserver to the teamserver and project server-) 3 times..

So Could't I install "team foundationserver 2008" AND "project server 2007" to the same server (single server: application and data tier is in this) ?
Or what can I do for it?

I think the problem is: as you know team server configures the sharepoint and project server also wants to do that.. And they are in war : )


Please help me..!

oscarzoso · 1 month ago

Hello Neil.

now, I Angelis on a migrating a TFS server, which had not originally installed Project Server, but now in the new server is integrated with Project Server, but I had some problems in the process, my question is: You can restore an old server and likewise integrated on Project Server?

Greetings and thanks

(Excuse my bad English)