Staging project status in Commerce Server is always shown as "Sent" and cannot start new replication


Description

In Commerce Server 10.0, the staging project status is always shown as "Sent" and the error message "Failed to start project Your_Staging_Project_Name. It is already running." appears when trying to start a new Replication.

Cause

The staging service in Commerce Server 10.0 still tries to access a registry sub-key under a Microsoft key.

Solution

The problem has been fixed in Commerce Server 10.1. 

As a workaround for Commerce Server 10.0, users can manually create the following registry keys and values allowing staging projects to be executed successfully:

On a 64-bit OS:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CSS\ProjectDeploymentLog]
"PollingInterval"=dword:00001388
"ShutDownTimeOut"=dword:000007d0
"ThreadPriority"="Normal"

On a 32-bit OS:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CSS\ProjectDeploymentLog]
"PollingInterval"=dword:00001388
"ShutDownTimeOut"=dword:000007d0
"ThreadPriority"="Normal"