Recreating Team Project SharePoint portal for existing Team Project

Question

Here's the problem:  We erroneously installed SharePoint Services with the MSDE database in Beta3 Refresh and have recently upgraded to RTM.  Our old Team Project moved over fine but now that we have SharePoint Services installed correctly (i.e. no MSDE database with the SharePoint databases stored in Yukon) our Team Project portal now doesn't exist.  Is there any way we can re-create the SharePoint portal for an existing Team Project?  We don't care about any of the old portal information...Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Michael,

First download the template that the project was created with MsAgile or CMMI.  You will need the documents to upload if you want them.

You can create a portal from the Sharepoint Admin website.  Start->Administrative Tools->Sharepoint Administration

Select Create a Top-Level Website

Select Default Website

Select Web Site Address and name it the same name as your project.  The Url should be under sites like this:

http://<Sharepoint_Server>/sites/<Project name>

Navigate to the newly created site and select the template that you created the original project with (VSTS_MSAgile or VSTS_MSF_CMMI)

Connect with the Team Explorer.  You can upload documents to the appropriate folders from the template that you downloaded.  Let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks,

Brad

 

Answer 2

That did the trick -- thanks!

Answer 3

You can also use this to create the team portal before creating the team project. I explain how to do it in my blog.