Bulk create Project Site using template

Question

Hi,
We have around 1000 projects in our PS2013 environment, and project site is not associated any of them. We have created a new template for project site.
To now create and associate this template with each project (without having to manually publish), we have to use option of managing connected site, but here we can create only one site at a time.
Is there a way for bulk create for multiple projects in one shot? 
Thanks in advance
Atul Sharma

Answer 1

Hi Atul
It might be a little late for this answer but given that template names are fixed most of the time and don't change often, i use powershell to obtain the template ID and simply pass it on in the code to be used at the time of creation
//////// Powershell to get Template Name/////
$url = “https://servername/pwa”
$site= new-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url )
$loc= [System.Int32]::Parse(1033)
$templates= $site.GetWebTemplates($loc)
foreach ($child in $templates){ write-host $child.Name “ ” $child.Title}
ID should look something like this -- {7E3D804F-0EB0-46E1-8D12-1FC4C441DF99}#Custom Project Site Template V15
Once i get the desired ID's i use them in code to create the site
SvcWssInterop.WssInteropClient WsClient = SetWSSInteropClientEndPoints();
SvcWssInterop.ProjectWSSInfoDataSet WssProjInfoDS = new SvcWssInterop.ProjectWSSInfoDataSet(); WssProjInfoDS = WsClient.ReadWssData(PrjUID);
SvcWssInterop.WssSettingsDataSet WssSettingDS = new SvcWssInterop.WssSettingsDataSet(); WssSettingDS = WsClient.ReadWssSettings();
SvcWssInterop.WssSettingsDataSet.WssAdminRow adminRow = WssSettingDS.WssAdmin[0];
string siteCollection = adminRow.WADMIN_DEFAULT_SITE_COLLECTION;
string templateName = "{7E3D804F-0EB0-46E1-8D12-1FC4C441DF99}#Custom Project Site Template V15";//adminRow.WADMIN_STS_TEMPLATE_ID;
Guid wssWebAppUid = adminRow.WADMIN_CURRENT_STS_SERVER_UID;
int templateLCID = adminRow.WADMIN_STS_TEMPLATE_LCID;
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
WsClient.CreateWssSite(PrjUID, adminRow.WADMIN_CURRENT_STS_SERVER_UID, string.Empty, adminRow.WADMIN_STS_TEMPLATE_LCID, templateName);
PrjClient.QueuePublish(Guid.NewGuid(), PrjUID, true, "");
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