SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

I am a Project Server and SharePoint consultant but my main focus currently is around Project Server. I have been working with Project Server for nearly five years since 2007 for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the UK, I have also been awared with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011. I am also a certified Prince2 Practitioner. This article has been cross posted from pwmather.wordpress.com (original article)

A quick post, if you are finding that all of a sudden your project sites are failing to create with the error below:

CreateWssSiteContent: Creating project site failed! Project Uid= <site details> Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The site template requires that the Feature {e995e28b-9ba8-4668-9933-cf5c146d7a9f} be activated in the site collection. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.ThrowSPExceptionWithTraceTag

Chances are you using a custom site template and this stopped working within the last week or so. The feature ID SharePoint is complaining about is a “MobileExcelWebAccess” feature. This can’t just be enabled.

The fix is straightforward, locate the site which you used to create the site template and save that site as a template again with a different name / version then link this to the Enterprise Project Type/s. Repeat this for all custom site templates.