Need solution to make changes in existing project sites in Project Server 2010 environment

Question

Dear Folks,
Hope you all are doing good and ready to give a way for this requirement. :)
In project server 2010 environment, I am using InfoPath documents library, Issues, Risks etc in each and every project sites.
Say, after creation of 100 projects/project sites, I have got a requirement to make some changes in the InfoPath document library and in Issues, Risks list, so I have decided to use the following solution which is actually weird:
Make the changes in InfoPath document library, Issues/Risks list for 1 of the project site and save that site as template and associate it with running EPT.
Then, delete the existing project sites (after taking backup) and start recreating it from PWA/Server Settings/ Operational Policies/ Project Sites, so that it will take the latest template. But, seems like it is time taking and handy and actually it's not
working for some of the projects.
Request all of you to provide some solution for this.
Ask more, if my explanation is not clear.
Regards,
Shravan

Answer 1

Hello,
Regarding mass deleting and recreating Project Sites via the PSI, firstly delete the project sites then run the following PowerShell script to bulk create project sites:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Bulk-create-Server-Sites-784f7b29
I have got a script that bulk deletes projects but this is not published as this could be a dangerous script to run if you did know what to update etc. To give you an idea of how to delete project sites via the PSI see a code snippet below:
$EPMTYGUID = [system.guid]::empty
$projectOwnerID = 'd6a0a720-12ac-e211-93f9-00155d153dd4'
$ProjectList = $svcPSProxy.ReadProjectStatus("$EPMTYGUID","PublishedStore","", "0").Project | format-table proj_uid -hidetableheaders | out-string -stream
foreach ($projectUid in $projectList)
if ($projectUid -ne "")
$projectsforDeletions = $svcPSProxy.ReadProject($projectUid, "PublishedStore").Project | where {$_.projectOwnerID -eq $projectOwnerID} | format-table proj_uid -hidetableheaders | out-string -stream
foreach ($projUid in $projectsforDeletions)
if ($projUid -ne "")
$svcWSSProxy.DeleteWSSSite($projUid)
Write-host 'Project UID for deleted site' $projUID
That particular example deletes the project sites for a particular project owner, you could easily modify that to remove the project owner filter if needed.
Regarding your query about having to delete the project sites to get the changes to take affect, there is no easy option to get the issues and risks list changes to filter though, this would either be manual on each existing site or using code to iterate
through each existing site and apply the changes programmatically. Depending on if you used site collection content types to set up the Issues and Risks lists, it might be simple to add a new column etc. as you could do this centrally and it will cascade
down. If you didn't use content types and or its view changes etc. this is a per site change that can be manual or programmatically done. The same applies to the document library, if this was set up using a site collection content type, the changes can
be modified on the content type and cascaded down. If the library was set up with just a library that used local columns / templates then it will be a per site change - the same as the issues and risks.
The company I work for (CPS) does have a site sync tool that will programmatically update existing sites based on a specified site so I know it is all possible to do in code!
Paul
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