Walkthrough on Configuring SSP in MOSS 2007

Objective:

This article will give walkthrough step by step to how to configure SSP in MOSS 2007.

Step 1:

On the SharePoint administration home page, click the Application Management tab. 



Step 2:

Now from Office SharePoint Server Shared Services click on Create or configure this farm's shared services.



Step 3:

From Managed this Farm Shared Service selects or click  New SSP



Step 4:

On New Shared service provider page click on Create New Web Application.



Step 5: 

1. Provide the port number. I am creating on port 10000
2. Provide the user name for the web application. Make administrator as user for this web application.
3. Leave other settings as default. Do not modify anything else.

Click OK to create a new Web Application.



Step 6: SSP name section

Now choose from dropdown the Web Application, you just created. Don't modify any other default value here in this section. 



Step 7: My Site Location section

Choose the same web application you created for the My Site



Step 8: SSP Service Credential

Provide username and password for the account under which you want to run the SSP. Please make sure user is a domain user. User is not member of any security group. 



Step 9: SSP Database

For this section leave the default settings. 



Step 10: SSP Search Database

For this section leave the default settings. 



Step 11: Index Server

Select the Index server over here. 



Step 12: SSL for web services

Select No here.



Step 13

Click OK on any warning message.

 

Step 14

You will be getting a Success message. 



Conclusion:

I have shown in this article, how to configure a SSP for MOSS 2007.

Thanks for reading.

Happy Coding!