Provision Project Web App Within SharePoint 2016

Now we are all set to start off by creating a new Project Web App instance. But if we go inside the Service Application we won’t see any options to create one. Neither it is available anywhere within the Central Admin.

The work around is to create a Team Site and convert it into a Project Web App. Let’s see how to do it.

• Create a New Site Collection. It can be any template. Let’s take a Team site.
  
  
  
  Upon successful creation of the Site collection we have a fully functional team site.
  
  
  
  
• Once the Site Collection is created, Navigate to Site Settings –> Site Collection Features.
  
  Here we can see a couple of Project Server features that were installed as a part of the Service Application creation
  
  
  
  
• Enable “Project Web App Settings” feature and you have the site converted to a Project Web Instance. But it gave me an unexpected error as below:
  
  
  This is something Microsoft will have to look into in the final release as this comes up intermittently. Let’s power up PowerShell and try to activate the feature from there .
  
  
  
  Thus we have successfully turned the Project web app feature from PowerShell.
  
  
  
  Finally we have converted the Team site into a Project Web App. If we go back to Central Admin and navigate to the Project Server Service application, we can see our recently transformed site under it.
  
  

So we have seen how to create a Project Server service application and convert a Team site into Project Web App from the UI. SharePoint Preview does not give us any other option to create the Web App directly from the UI. However we have an option to use PowerShell and create it directly which we will see in my upcoming article.