Welcome to part 12 in a series of posts which describe how to create a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Virtual PC image for demos and development work. Last time, we looked at how to start a few of the important services required by MOSS 2007. This time, we’ll look at how to create a Shared Services Provider (SSP).
Part 12: Creating a Shared Services Provider
If the SharePoint Central Administration website isn’t already open, select Start > Administrative Tools > SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, click the Application Management tab:
On the Application Management page, click the Create or configure this farm’s shared services link, located under the Office SharePoint Server Shared Services heading:
On the Manage this Farm’s Shared Services page, click the New SSP toolbar button:
On the New Shared Services Provider page, in the SSP Name section, click the Create a new Web application link:
On the Create New Web Application page, enter the following information, then click the OK button:
IIS Website:
Port: 1111
Security Configuration:
Authentication provider: NTLM
Allow Anonymous: No
Use SSL: No
Load Balanced URL: http://SERVERNAME:1111 (http://vpc02:1111, in this case)
Application Pool:
Create a new application pool
Application pool name: SharePoint – 1111
Select a security account for this application pool: Configurable
User name: SERVERNAME\Administrator (VPC02\Administrator, in this case)
Password: enter the administrator password
Reset Internet Information Services: Restart IIS Manually
Database Name and Authentication:
Database server: SERVERNAME (VPC02, in this case)
Database name: WSS_Content
Database authentication: Windows authentication
After the Shared Services web application has been created, the New Shared Services Provider page should be displayed:
Go down to the My Site Location section, then click the Create a new Web application link:
On the Create New Web Application page, enter the following information, then click the OK button:
IIS Website:
Port: 2222
Security Configuration:
Authentication provider: NTLM
Allow Anonymous: No
Use SSL: No
Load Balanced URL: http://SERVERNAME:2222 (http://vpc02:2222, in this case)
Application Pool:
Create a new application pool
Application pool name: SharePoint – 2222
Select a security account for this application pool: Configurable
User name: SERVERNAME\Administrator (VPC02\Administrator, in this case)
Password: enter the administrator password
Reset Internet Information Services: Restart IIS Manually
Database Name and Authentication:
Database server: SERVERNAME (VPC02, in this case)
Database name: automatically generated (WSS_Content_75bf75064cd5456e94f41cd8737a8573, in this case)
Database authentication: Windows authentication
After the My Sites web application has been created, the New Shared Services Provider page should be displayed:
Enter the following information on the remainder of the New Shared Services Provider page, then click the OK button:
My Site Location
Relative URL: /
SSP Service Credentials
Username: SERVERNAME\Administrator (VPC02\Administrator, in this case)
Password: enter the administrator password
SSP Database
Database server: SERVERNAME (VPC02, in this case)
Database name: SharedServices1_DB
Database authentication: Windows authentication
Search Database
Database server: SERVERNAME (VPC02, in this case)
Database name: SharedServices1_Search_DB
Database authentication: Windows authentication
Use SSL: No
After the SSP is created, the Success page is displayed; click the OK button:
You should now have a fully-functional MOSS 2007 Shared Services Provider (SSP).
In Part 13, we’ll look at how to configure the search settings inside the SSP.