Integrate Project Server with MOSS and SSP

If you are going to integrate Project Server 2007 with MOSS, you may want to use a seperated Shared Services Provider to host it.

During our pre-migration testing, we setup an integrated Project Server 2007 and move databases from the pilot environment. Couple days later the entire project server crashed and we had no clue why it happened.

After we discussed the whole situation with Microsoft, we were told die to the nature of Project Server, we should use a separated SSP to host.

Since we already created a SSP for the entire MOSS farm, the process included:

• Create two new SSPs.
• Move portal, mysite, search and indexing to one of the new SSPs.
• Create PWA under the 2nd new SSPs.
• Other than hosting PWA, do not use the 2nd SSP to do profile importing, content crawling or any other services if it's not required.

We implemented suggested settings to our server farm and so far so good. If you plan to do so, I will recommend to find a development/staging environment and document all the steps to create these two SSPs for your MOSS environment.

Happy Holiday

Still hard to believe it's the end of 2008. I feel that I just mailed our 2007 X'mas card yesterday.

This is a pretty busy year to me. I moved to a new job and do not have to face some unpleasant situation. I had my first SharePoint speech at the conference earlier this year. I also had chance to meet several SharePoint experts face to face.

Wish everyone a happy holiday and new year.