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I have managed to install SharePoint 3.0 on my dev Team server box in side by side mode by using  Brian Keller's blog on "Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0".

I have not yet updated Team Server, but I got as far as having a working version of SharePoint 3.0 running side by side with 2.0. This has worked grate for me as I have had time to evaluate SharePoint as an Intranet for my department. What I would like to achieve is to have and intranet site on http://department.internal.company.com with a sub site called "projects". I would then like Team Server to create all of its sites under this Projects site so as to provide a mini portal for my projects with links to documentation, best practices and tools on the parent http://department.internal.company.com/Projects site along with a reporting services dashboard, with customer reports that cover all of the projects, like RAG reports among other things.

Does anyone know if this is achievable?

My idea is that in the documentation I replace:

<RegistrationEntries>
<RegistrationEntry>
        <Type>Wss</Type>
        <ChangeType>Change</ChangeType>
        <ServiceInterfaces>
        <ServiceInterface>
                <Name>WssAdminService</Name>
                <Url>[protocol]://[WSS Server 3.0]:[WSS 3.0 admin port]/_vti_adm/admin.asmx</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        <ServiceInterface>
                <Name>BaseServerUrl</Name>
                <Url>[protocol]://[ WSS Server 3.0]:[port]</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        <ServiceInterface>
                <Name>BaseSiteUrl</Name>
                <Url>[protocol]://[ WSS Server 3.0]:[port]/sites</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        <ServiceInterface>
                <Name>BaseSiteUnc</Name>
                <Url>\\[ WSS Server 3.0]\sites</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        </ServiceInterfaces>
</RegistrationEntry>
</RegistrationEntries>

With the information for the sub site:

<RegistrationEntries>
<RegistrationEntry>
        <Type>Wss</Type>
        <ChangeType>Change</ChangeType>
        <ServiceInterfaces>
        <ServiceInterface>
                <Name>WssAdminService</Name>
                <Url>[protocol]://[WSS Server 3.0]:[WSS 3.0 admin port]/_vti_adm/admin.asmx</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        <ServiceInterface>
                <Name>BaseServerUrl</Name>
                <Url>[protocol]://[ WSS Server 3.0]:[port]</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        <ServiceInterface>
                <Name>BaseSiteUrl</Name>
                <Url>[protocol]://[ WSS Server 3.0]:[port]/Projects/sites</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        <ServiceInterface>
                <Name>BaseSiteUnc</Name>
                <Url>\\[ WSS Server 3.0]\Projects\sites</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        </ServiceInterfaces>
</RegistrationEntry>
</RegistrationEntries>

Anyone else have a better idea of what to try?

Any reason what this should not work?


posted @ Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:09 PM | Filed Under [ Visual Studio Team System Sharepoint ]

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Gravatar # re: Team Foundation Server & SharePoint 3.0
Posted by gbelzile on 5/21/2008 4:44 PM
Hi, I'm trying to achieve the same thing here. Did you manage to make it work?
Gravatar # re: Team Foundation Server & SharePoint 3.0
Posted by Martin Hinshelwood on 5/22/2008 7:21 AM
Not out of the box... To make it work you will need three things...
First Create a web service for Sharepoint 2007 that uses the Sharepoint API to create the sub sites of your desired site.
Second you need to create a custom TFS Project Creation Wizard that uses that web service.
Third swap the standard wizard in the TFS Process Template to use your new wizard.

If you were realy clever you could add options to the GUI of the VS wizard that lets the user choose wither to create sub sites or the default...

Easy.... :)

Its not realy that bad once you get into the bits and bobs..
Gravatar # re: Team Foundation Server & SharePoint 3.0
Posted by jp woodey on 7/18/2008 6:29 AM
Martin, i love that you suggest what to do but give no direction on how to achieve what you suggest. Keep up the great posts
Gravatar # re: Team Foundation Server & SharePoint 3.0
Posted by Martin Hinshelwood on 7/18/2008 7:07 AM
If you dill direct you attention to more recent posts, you will achieve the enlightenment you desire....
Gravatar # re: Team Foundation Server & SharePoint 3.0
Posted by Martin Hinshelwood on 7/18/2008 7:11 AM
In fact:
http://hinshelwood.com/archive/2007/06/20/Solution-to-sub-sites-in-Sharepoint-3.0-with-Team-Foundation.aspx
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