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Copper Contributor

Aug 09, 2021

Hi everyone, when i create a new pwa site in project online. I am getting error?

No Project Web App instances found. Create at least one PWA instance before accessing this page. I am a sharepoint admin . what are the reasons for getting this error?

Matthew Carter
Jul 05, 2022
I got off the phone with Microsoft

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project/project-online-error-when-accessing-a-newly-created-pwa-instance/m-p/3565995/highlight/true#M4145

I just got off the phone with Microsoft support.
Seemed that the GUI for setting this up didn't work and after running a few PowerShell commands it showed that PWA was disabled - PWAEnabled : Disabled
We ran these in PowerShell (we changed the name here to YOUR tenant name, and YOUR site):
Connect-SPOService -url https://M365TenantNameHere-admin.sharepoint.com
Get-SPOSite -Identity https://M365TenantNameHere.sharepoint.com/sites/PWASiteNameHere |fl
#PWAEnabled : Disabled
Set-SPOSite -Enable $true -identity https://M365TenantNameHere.sharepoint.com/sites/PWASiteNameHere

Cathylou_Barbado

Copper Contributor

aAnil_kumar_Anakala

I am also having the same issue with one of our clients. This is the first time.

We created a POL site in the O365 Admin Portal. The site was okay and can be accessed. But after less than 10mins we got the "No PWA instance was found" error. I am one of the site collection Admin.

Anil_kumar_Anakala

Copper Contributor

Oct 20, 2021

Hi Cathylou_Barbado

I had tried this, It worked for me.
Download and open the SharePoint online management shell
paste the code in shell

In strike off place type your tenant URL. In circle place type your account name. In underline place type your PWA site name.

After completion of cmds refresh the browser.

Test it in internet explorer, edge.

Cathylou_Barbado
Copper Contributor
Oct 20, 2021
Hi Anil, thank you very much for this. Will try this one out. But may I know what causes this setting to be off? Based on what we experienced with other clients, the POL sites created remains accessible after creation. I'm thinking whether there are any configurations in the O365 Admin Portal that causes this setting to change automatically.
- Anil_kumar_Anakala
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 20, 2021
  As you said the site is still visible in site collection. Actually I am also faced the same issue earlier. In SharePoint admin center, After creation of PWA site, I changed the primary admin and site owner. After 10 mins , then I faced this error.
  - Cathylou_Barbado
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 20, 2021
    I see. I will try to reproduce the issue in our Environment and let you know of the result.
    
    For our other clients with POL site working properly after creation, the site remains to be accessible.
    
    But for this particular client, after few minutes of creating the POL site, the supposed POL site would throw an error. The URL still remains the same but this time no traces of the POL site (Server Settings and the PWA web pages).