When installing PPM on Windows Server 2008 R2, if PPM is setup to use Windows NT Authentication as the provider, the users may get the following error when trying to login : You must be logged into your Windows domain before logging in to the product.
Verify that the user is assigned to a group with a role that is given the correct permissions to create templates. Now login to Mariner as peadmin or another user with the administrator role. Right click on an existing investment and in the menu choose the "Manage Templates" option.
This is by design that the peadmin account can edit the archived items in UI. If you try to update an investment in the Archived Items folder via a web service using the peadmin account you won't be able to. In this case you will get a message that archived items can't be edited.
The Mariner Administrator tool gives the following error "Cannot validate server certificate" on SSL enabled servers. Fatal WebException occurred with status: ConnectionFailure.; Unable to connect to the remote server; No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it <Server Name> You may be able to login but the investment tree won't load and you may get a javascript error that says "Object doesn't support this property or method"
In order to troubleshoot the second scenario further open the Activity Monitor or Activity Log in SQL Enterprise Manager on the sql server you're attempting to connect to. If it's a failed login it should show in that log with the corresponding error. Usually the user doesn't exist in the database or the password is wrong etc.
