Project Professional 2002 - and SSL with Client Certs

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From: Jason Trust (noreply_jtrust_at_ctpartners.com)
Date: 01/25/05


Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:50:03 -0500

All,

The situation I am running into involves a Project Professional 2002 project
which is stored in a database and published to ProjectServer 2002. The
ProjectServer 2002 site has recently been upgraded to use SSL and "Require
Client Certificates". Users can get into ProjectServer 2002 just fine by
providing their valid certificates and then they login as normal.

However, Project Professional 2002 seems to have issues with this during the
Update Project Progress for projects. It brings up the login page without
any images or graphics and then throws up a generic "could not connect
message" with 3 or 4 different possible reasons. The odd thing is that when
I first startup Project Professional it will ask to select a Microsoft
Project Server Account, and I select one that uses https and click Connect.
It brings up a login screen and I type in a user id and password and it
works. But when I try any publish or Update Project Progress to the plan it
fails with the generic failure message. Also, when I click on the "Test
Connection" under the Collaboration Options or Account Properties for the
project server account, I get that same generic failure message.

Has anyone else been able to get 2002 Pro and ProjectServer 2002 to work
using SSL and "Require Client Certificates"? I am stuck between a rock and
hard place, our client requires client certificates to access this site.

Thoughts?

Jason



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