Deploy Project Server 2007 to an existing deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2008-03-12

This article describes how to deploy Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 to an existing deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

This is one of three deployment scenario in deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Office Project Server 2007. The other two scenarios are:

• Deploy Project Server 2007 to an existing deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007

• Deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office Project Server 2007 to a new environment

For additional information about deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Office Project Server 2007, see Deploy Office Project Server 2007 with Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Important

Before installing Office Project Server 2007 or Office SharePoint Server 2007, it is very important to thoroughly plan for the deployment. For information on planning for Office Project Server 2007, see Planning and architecture for Office Project Server 2007. For information on planning for Office SharePoint Server 2007, see Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Deployment overview

This scenario is typically used in an environment in which an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm is deployed, its services are in use, and your organization wants to integrate Office Project Server 2007 functionality. For more information about features and functionality available through Office Project Server 2007 and the Project 2007 family of products, see What's new in Office Project 2007.

When deploying Office Project Server 2007 to an existing Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm, you must do the following general steps:

1. Install Office Project Server 2007 to all front-end Web and application servers in the farm.

2. Enable the Project Application service on any application servers on which you intend to run Office Project Server 2007.

3. Provision the Office Project Server 2007 site on the farm.

Quiescing the farm

Prior to deploying Office Project Server 2007 with Office SharePoint Server 2007, it is important to plan when to quiesce the farm (gradually take the farm offline). The farm needs to be offline when installing binary files to a server on the farm so that it receives no incoming requests. This enables the farm to be in a consistent state after the binary files are installed to servers in the farm and the farm is brought back online.

The process of quiescing the farm can be performed through the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.

Note

You can run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on each server after resetting the farm.

Install Project Server 2007 on all Office SharePoint Server 2007 front-end Web and application servers

On all of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 front-end Web and application servers, you need to install the Office Project Server 2007 binary files required for Office Project Server 2007 and then run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

Note

For detailed information about installing Office Project Server 2007, see Deploy Project Server 2007 to a server farm environment.

Install the Office Project Server 2007 binary files

Important

Installing the Office Project Server 2007 binary files and running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration wizard are required steps required on all servers in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm. Afterwards you can turn on the services you want to run on each server through Central Administration.

When you are installing the Office Project Server 2007 binary files to a server in an existing Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm, the installation will automatically detect the Office SharePoint Server 2007 server type installed to the computer and will then install the appropriate Office Project Server 2007 server type. For example, if a server is installed as an Office SharePoint Server 2007 application server, the Office Project Server 2007 installation will detect the server type and install the Office Project Server 2007 application server binary files. This feature makes the process of installing the Office Project Server 2007 binary files identical on different server types.

Important

Installing Office Project Server 2007 binary files to an Office SharePoint Server 2007 application server does not make the server a Project Server application server. The Project Application service needs to be started on any application servers that you want to serve as Project Server application servers.

To install Office Project Server 2007 to a server in an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm, do the following:

Install Project Server 2007 binary files to a server in an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm

1. Navigate to the installation location for Office Project Server 2007, and then double-click the Setup.exe file to begin the setup process.

2. On the Enter Product Key page, type the 25-character product key, and then click Continue.

3. On the End User License Agreement page, view the terms of the agreement. Select I accept the terms of the agreement, and then click Continue.

4. When installation of the binary files is completed, the Setup Complete page is displayed and prompts you to complete the configuration of your server. Verify that Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard now is selected, and then click Close.

   Note

   If you choose to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard at a later time, click to clear the check box, and then click Close. To start the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard later, click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Office Server, and then click SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard

After installing the Project Server binary files on a server in the farm, you need to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

The optimal time to run the wizard is right after installing the binary files to the server. This needs to occur on each server in the farm. It is also important not to concurrently run operations on a server in the farm while running the wizard on another server in the farm.

To run the wizard, perform the following steps on the server after installing the binary files:

Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard

1. After you start the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page appears, stating that the wizard will upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies. Click Next.

2. Click Yes to the message alerting you that specified services might need to be restarted or reset during the installation. These services will include:

   • Internet Information Services

   • Windows SharePoint Services Administration Service

   • Windows SharePoint Services Timer Service

3. In the Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard page, the configuration will point to the existing configuration settings for the Office Project Server 2007 farm. Click Next to start the configuration process.

4. When configuration is finished, the Configuration Successful page displays the configuration settings. Click Finish. This automatically opens Central Administration.

Configure the farm services for Project Server application servers

On each application server on which you want the Project Server application server to run, you must enable the Project Application service by using Central Administration.

As noted previously, the Office Project Server 2007 binary files need to be installed on all front-end Web and application servers in the farm. However, the Project Application service only needs to be started on servers that you want to be Project Server application servers.

Start the Project Application service

1. From the top navigation on the Central Administration Web site, click Operations.

2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, select Servers in farm.

3. On the Servers in Farm page, in the Server list, click the server on which you want to start the Project Application service.

4. On the Services on Server page for this computer, in the Service list, find Project Application Service. In the same row under the Action column, click Start.

   Note

   To see a complete list of all the services on the computer, in the Select server role to display services you will need to start in the table below section, select Custom.

5. In the Service list, find Project Application Service. In the same row under the Action column, click Start.

   To see whether the status has changed, you might need to refresh the page.

6. The status for the Project Application service will appear as Started.

Provision the Project Server 2007 site on the farm

This final procedure allows you to create the Office Project Server 2007 instance on the farm, which is done through Central Administration. During this process, you specify the Project Server administrator account, point to the database server that will host the Office Project Server 2007 databases, and name the Office Project Server 2007 databases.

Provision the Project Server 2007 site on the farm

1. From the top navigation on Central Administration, click Application Management.

2. On the Application Management page, in the Office SharePoint Server Shared Services section, select Create or configure this farm's shared services.

3. On the Manage this Farm's Shared Services page, in the SSP Name list, select the Shared Services Provider in which you would like to provision Project Web Access.

4. On the home page for this core service, in the Project Server section, click Project Web Access Sites.

5. On the Manage Project Web Access page, click Create Project Web Access Site.

6. On the Create a New Project Web Access page, do the following:

   1. In the Project Web Access Site Location section, from the SharePoint Web Application to host Project Web Access list, select the name of the extended Web site you created to host the SharePoint site.

   2. In the Project Web Access path box, type the name you will use to specify the URL to the Project Web Access home page. (For example, if you type PWA, the URL to the home page would be http://servername/PWA.)

   3. In the Administrator Account section, type the Windows user account that will be given administrative credentials to the Project Server instance.

   4. In the Primary Database section, type the name of the computer running SQL Server on which the Published, Draft, and Archive databases will be located. In the three Database Name fields, type unique names for each of the three Office Project Server 2007 databases.

      Note

      You can use the default database names. However, make sure that they do not already exist on the computer running SQL Server.

   5. In the Reporting Database section, select Use the primary database server if you want the reporting database to be created on the Primary database server that you specified in the previous section. If you want the Reporting database to be created on another computer hosting SQL Server, clear this option and type the name of the SQL Server on which you want it to be created. In the Reporting database name field, type a unique name that you want to use for the Reporting database.

      Note

      You can use the default database name. However, make sure that it does not already exist on the computer running SQL Server.

7. Click OK. The provisioning process starts.

8. You will be returned to the Manage Project Web Access page. Click the Refresh Status button to update the status of the provisioning process. When provisioning is finished, Provisioned will appear as an entry in the Status column. When provisioning has been completed, you can click the URL to go to the Project Web Access site.

   Note

   Provisioning is an asynchronous process, so it might take a few minutes before the job is complete.

Using proposals in Project Server 2007

In order to enable the automated proposals feature Office Project Server 2007, no additional configuration is required. If Office Project Server 2007 is installed on an existing farm deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007, workflow is automatically configured for the automated proposal feature.

Uninstalling from an Office SharePoint Server/Project Server 2007 deployment

Removing either Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Office Project Server 2007 from a joint installation is not supported. Installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Office Project Server 2007 extends the farm schema, and it cannot be undone by uninstalling one of the applications.

See Also

Concepts

Deploy Office Project Server 2007 with Office SharePoint Server 2007
Deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 to an existing deployment of Project Server 2007
Deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office Project Server 2007 to a new environment
Planning and architecture for Office Project Server 2007
Deploy Project Server 2007 to a server farm environment

Other Resources

Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a server farm environment