What this now means is that the easy to use menu driving procedure of creating and managing PWA instances is now history. PowerShell is the way it is done now. I really like PowerShell, but really wish Microsoft would keep some of the menu options. Rumor is that everything is going the way of PowerShell.
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# Author: Michael Wharton
# Date: 08/30/2016
# Description: Project Server 2016 configuration
# Create one or multiple PWA sites
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Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Confirm:$false -Verbose
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Verbose
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# Update the following metadata that is used consistantly thru the script
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<$SqlServerName = “LAB-2016SP.DOMAIN.LOCAL”
$WebAppURL = “
http://LAB-2016SP.DOMAIN.LOCAL”
$SitePwaURL = “
http://LAB-2016SP.DOMAIN.LOCAL/pwa”
$WebHostHeader = “LAB-2016SP.DOMAIN.LOCAL”$WebAppURL = “
http://LAB-2016SP”
$SitePwaURL = “
http://LAB-2016SP/pwa”
$SitePwa2URL = “
http://LAB-2016SP/pwa2/PMO”
$SitePwaOOBURL = “
http://LAB-2016SP/pwaoob”$WebAppName = “Project Server 2016”
$ProjectServiceApp = “Project Service App”
$ProjectServicePool = “Project Service Pool”
$WSS_ContentDB = “LABK_PWA_WSS_Content”
# Create credentials
$ServiceSP = “DOMAIN\ServiceSP”
$ServicePass = “password”
$credServiceSP = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList @($ServiceSP,(ConvertTo-SecureString -String $ServicePass -AsPlainText -Force))
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# create Managed Account
New-SPManagedAccount -Credential $credServiceSP -Verbose
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# Create Project Service Pool
New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name $ProjectServiceApp -Account $ServiceSP -Verbose
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# Create Project Server Service and Enable Project Key
$ProjectServiceID = New-SPProjectServiceApplication -Name $ProjectServiceApp -Proxy -ApplicationPool (Get-SPServiceApplicationPool $ProjectServicePool)
Enable-projectserverlicense -Key “23CB6-N4X8Q-WWD7M-6FHCW-9TPVP”
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# Create Web Application on root that contains project server collection
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$AP = New-SPAuthenticationProvider -Verbose
New-SPWebApplication -Name $WebAppName -port 80 -URL $WebAppURL -DatabaseName $WSS_ContentDB -ApplicationPool $ProjectServicePool -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount $ServiceSP) -AuthenticationProvider $AP -Verbose -Confirm:$false
# Create PWA on Root
New-SPSite -Url $WebAppURL -Template “PWA#0” -Name “Project Web App” -OwnerAlias “DOMAIN\mawharton” -Verbose
Enable-SPFeature PWASITE -Url $WebAppURL -Verbose
Set-SPProjectPermissionMode -Url $WebAppURL -Mode ProjectServer -Verbose
# Add a few resources and make basic configuration updates such as publish sites
Start $WebAppURL
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# Create multiple PWA sites
$SitePwaURL = “
http://LAB-2016SP/pwa”
$SitePwa2URL = “
http://LAB-2016SP/pwa2”
$SitePwaOOBURL = “
http://LAB-2016SP/pwaoob”
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# Create Root
New-SPSite -Url $WebAppURL -Template “STS#0” -Name “Root” -OwnerAlias “DOMAIN\mawharton” -Verbose
# Create PWA Site as managed path
New-SPManagedPath “PWA” -WebApplication $WebAppURL -Explicit
# remove-spmanagedpath “PWA” -WebApplication $WebAppURL
New-SPSite -Url $SitePwaURL -Template “PWA#0” -Name “Project Web App” -OwnerAlias “DOMAIN\mawharton” -Verbose
Enable-SPFeature PWASITE -Url $SitePwaURL -Verbose
Set-SPProjectPermissionMode -Url $SitePwaURL -Mode ProjectServer -Verbose
Start $SitePwaURL
# Create PWA2 as second site
New-SPManagedPath “PWA2” -WebApplication $WebAppURL -Explicit
New-SPSite -Url $SitePWA2URL -Template “PWA#0” -Name “Project Web App2” -OwnerAlias “DOMAIN\mawharton” -Verbose
Enable-SPFeature PWASITE -Url $SitePWA2URL -Verbose
Set-SPProjectPermissionMode -Url $SitePWA2URL -Mode ProjectServer -Verbose
Start $SitePWA2URL
# Create PWAOOB as second site (Out-Of-Box)
New-SPManagedPath “PWAOOB” -WebApplication $WebAppURL -Explicit
New-SPSite -Url $SitePwaOOBURL -Template “PWA#0” -Name “Project Web App OOB” -OwnerAlias “DOMAIN\mawharton” -Verbose
Enable-SPFeature PWASITE -Url $SitePwaOOBURL -Verbose
Set-SPProjectPermissionMode -Url $SitePwaOOBURL -Mode ProjectServer -Verbose
Start $SitePwaOOBURL
# Create PWA2 as second site
New-SPManagedPath “PWA2” -WebApplication $WebAppURL
New-SPSite -Url $SitePWA2URL -Template “PWA#0” -Name “Project Web App2” -OwnerAlias “DOMAIN\mawharton” -Verbose
Enable-SPFeature PWASITE -Url $SitePWA2URL -Verbose
Set-SPProjectPermissionMode -Url $SitePWA2URL -Mode ProjectServer -Verbose
Start $SitePWA2URL
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# List Web Application
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Get-SPProjectWebInstance | Select URL , adminAccount, ProvisioningResult, Online | Sort-Object URL
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# Delete PWA Site
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Remove-SPSite -Identity $SitePwaURL -Confirm:$false -verbose # Removes PWA site
Remove-SPSite -Identity $SitePwa2URL -Confirm:$false -verbose # Removes PWA2 site
Remove-SPSite -Identity $SitePwaOOB -Confirm:$false -verbose # Removes PWAOOB site
