A month or so back, a need arose to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services on our Team Foundation Server box to v3 from v2. I do not recall the exact circumstances, but I remember the error in TFS made absolutely no sense and I guessed the upgrade would fix it. I was right… until the other day when someone tried to create a new Team Project.

Error
The Project Creation Wizard encountered an error while uploading documents to the Windows SharePoint Services server on teamserver.

Explanation
The Project Creation Wizard encountered a problem while uploading documents to the Windows SharePoint Services server on teamserver. The reason for the failure cannot be determined at this time. Because the operation failed, the wizard was not able to finish creating the Windows SharePoint Services site.

User Action
Contact the administrator for the Windows SharePoint Services server on teamserver to confirm that the server is running and you have sufficient privileges to create a project. Also, you might find additional helpful information in the project creation log. The log shows each action taken by the wizard at the time of the failure and may include additional details about the error.

Here’s the event description distilled from the log file mentioned in the error.

Event Description: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed
Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException
Exception Message: The Project Creation Wizard encountered an error while uploading documents to the Windows SharePoint Services server on teamserver.
Exception Details: The Project Creation Wizard encountered a problem while uploading
documents to the Windows SharePoint Services server on teamserver.
The reason for the failure cannot be determined at this time.
Because the operation failed, the wizard was not able to finish
creating the Windows SharePoint Services site.

This error seems to come every now and then when people are doing updates. The reason for this is that the templates no longer match. You will need to install the wss v3 templates. The utility I will be mentioning, stsadm, can be found in %programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN\.

• Click Site Settings on an upgraded site.
• Click Save site as template.
• Name the file and template the exact, case-sensitive name stored in your Process Template. You can run stsadm -o enumtemplates, and use the first item on each line (e.g. VSTS_MSFAgile).
• Download the file from the site template gallery to a location of your choosing. For these instructions, we will use c:\.
• Delete all of the WSS v2 templates. Using the list from the enumtemplates step, run stsadm –o deletetemplate –title [title]
• Add the WSS v3 templates to the site. Run stsadm -o addtemplate -filename C:\[title].stp -title [title]
• Run iisreset

You should now be good to go!