PWA: EPM/Project Server site give administrator access to user or group for project web app

To give administrator access to user/group for project web app we need to run following powershell command

Grant-SPProjectAdministratorAccess -Url http://contoso-AppSrv/pwa -UserAccount contoso\john.woods

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SharePoint 2013/2016: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered

While trying to give administrator access to user for an instance of PWA I tried to run following command in sharepoint powershell:

Grant-SPProjectAdministratorAccess -url XXXX user domain\XXXX

I came across following issues:

SharePoint 2013/2016: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered

Solution:
This happened b/c I tried to launch sharepoint powershell with user part of farm admin group, however I need to work with account similar access to sharepoint central admin app pool as that account requires right on server & databases to run configuration through powershell commands.
so I need to run following command throught account which I used to install my sharepoint farm:
Add-SPShellAdmin -UserName Domain\User

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Sitecore: How to setup a visual studio solution

To setup sitecore visual studio solution we need following steps accordingly:

1. Create a new MVC solution in Visual Studio
2. Replace or copy web.config & global.asax files from inetpub->wwwroot->"Sitecore application" folder and paste it to new MVC application created in step 1.
3. Similarly replace web.config files from View folder same as step 2 into new MVC application created in Step 1
4. Add reference to following dlls (I mostly create a new folder in MVC solution/application created in step 1 called library and copy paste following files):
1. Sitecore.Kernel.dll
2. Sitecore.MVC.dll
3. Sitecore.MVC.Analytics.dll
5. Add new view to verify above configuration by using Sitecore intellisense for:
1. @using Sitecore.MVC
2. @Html.Sitecore().CurrentItem.Name

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Add new Publishing target in SiteCore 9

Previously in Sitecore 8 we used to add publishing target by following these three steps:

1. Add new item under Sitecore->System->Publishing Targets

1. Update Sitecore.config field to add database configuration section under <databases section for new Publishing Target i.e. WebUAE

1. Add new connection string setting under ConnectionStrings.config for new web database

However while doing so we received following error:
Could not find configuration node: PropertyStoreProvider/store[@name='WebUAE']
solution:
For sitecore 9 we need to add missing nodes as indicated by error under section PropertyStoreProvider:
<store name="WebUSA" prefix="WebUSA" getValueWithoutPrefix="true" singleInstance="true" type="Sitecore.Data.Properties.$(database)PropertyStore, Sitecore.Kernel">      <param ref="dataApis/dataApi[@name='$(database)']" param1="$(name)" />
      <param resolve="true" type="Sitecore.Abstractions.BaseEventManager, Sitecore.Kernel" />
      <param resolve="true" type="Sitecore.Abstractions.BaseCacheManager, Sitecore.Kernel" />
    </store>
But wait, it pops up another error...hmmm Could not find configuration node: eventing/eventQueueProvider/eventQueue[@name='WebUAE']
solution:
Add following node under <eventQueueProvider
<eventQueue name="WebUSA" type="Sitecore.Data.Eventing.$(database)EventQueue, Sitecore.Kernel">
        <param ref="dataApis/dataApi[@name='$(database)']" param1="$(name)" />
        <param ref="PropertyStoreProvider/store[@name='$(name)']" />
      </eventQueue>
This will fix adding new publishing target for sitecore 9.
Happy development
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