Zippy
Fri May 09 10:43:59 CDT 2008
A minor correction - that should have read 'peer-to-peer network withOUT
domains or AD'.
"Zippy" <a@b.com> wrote in message
news:udzGyoesIHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for your reponses, folks. I actually spent several hours on the
> phone with SharePoint support yesterday. The ProjectServer angle didn't
> really come into play at all.
>
> We were able to make the following obeservations.
>
> There are 3 desktop machines tied to a single server box. The server is
> running Win2K3 Standard and SQL 2005. The desktop (some of which are
> multi-boot dev boxes) are a mix of Win2KPro, XP Pro and Vista Ultimate.
> The single Win2K Pro partition is running Office 2K3 Pro and IE6; all the
> others are running Office 2007 Ultimate and IE7. Everything is totally up
> to date - XP SP3, etc.
>
> There are 3 common user accounts: the main Administrator account and two
> others. ALL have administrator privileges on ALL machines; it's a
> peer-to-peer network with domains or AD. All accounts are Home Owners in
> SharePoint. There are no specially tweaked permissions or anything like
> that - very straight-forward, clean installs.
>
> And here's where it gets strange.
>
> The Administrator account works correctly in every partition on every
> machine, with every permutation of Office/OS/IE. When you first browse to
> the home page of 'My Site', the dialog pops up asking if you want it to be
> your default home site, and when confirmed, it does it's thing, creating
> the appropriate registry entries and the 'Make this my default site' link
> disappears from the 'My Site' home page.
>
> The single Win2K/Office2K3/IE6 partition functions correctly with every
> user account.
>
> In every other partition, though, the accounts other than the
> Administrator account do not work correctly. The dialog box does not pop
> up when you first browse to 'My Site'; the 'set this as my default site'
> link does not function. We (support and I) tweaked the registry keys for
> the user accounts and did manage to connect the Office installations to
> the server accounts manually, but even then the link still appears and is
> still non-functional.
>
> Any thoughts, anyone?
>
>
>
> "Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u69l$qdsIHA.5096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> There seem to be plenty of messages to the SP newsgroups and forums from
>> people who say they *have* installed Project Server 2007 and MOSS 2007 on
>> the same server. So that seems to "solve" that art of your question. I
>> always suggest they ask their Project Server / PWA questions at the
>> project server newsgroup microsoft.public.project.server btw.
>>
>> Mind you what this has to do with the subject of this thread
>> (SPS07/Office07 integration) I don't know - well OK, SPS07 obviously is a
>> "misprint" for MOSS 2007 but Office07 ?
>>
>> Mike Walsh
>> WSS FAQ
http://www.wssfaq.com /
http://wss.collutions.com
>> no questions by e-mail please
>>
>>
>>
>> Seanzies wrote:
>>> I recently attended the 5061A Implementing Microsoft Office Sharepoint
>>> Server 2007 class and a comment was made about project server and
>>> MOSS.
>>>
>>> The comment was the they can not run on the same box (MOSS and Project
>>> Server). But if you want to access project server you can use the BDC
>>> (business data catalog) to get to it.
>>>
>>> I am not sure the exact reason why but it may have to be that project
>>> server also has it own sharepoint built within it and there may be
>>> conflicts that occur because they are running on the same box. one of
>>> those conflicts could be the whole MySite issue your referring to.
>>> Because, in a sense, you could have a MySite in both MOSS and project
>>> server so it may be getting confused.
>
>