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.

Move on to a new position

Since late July I was moved to (long story) an external government contract. I was kind getting the messages and started looking around.

Fortunately, I received a good offer to work on over all MOSS and Project Server architect, deployment and development. So I moved on to the new one starting Thanksgiving week. Pretty exciting and looking forward to learn lots new knowledge.

Happy Thanksgiving.