How to create a Shared Services Provider (SSP)

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 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:


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