Configuring Sharepoint service provider is one of the important task when you are setting up a sharepoint server (MOSS 2007). The following steps will help you in creating and configuring SSP. What are the prerequisites for configuration? The important one is the user account . More details use the link- http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f07768d4-ca37-447a-a056-1a67d93ef5401033.mspx?mfr=true Configuring the SSP (Shared Service Provider) 1. Start > Programs > Microsoft Office Server > SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration > menu from the application server. This will open SharePoint central administration site in internet explorer. 2. In SharePoint central administration site click on Shared Service Administration, this will open Share service administration page. 3. Click on New SSP 4. Click on Create a new Web Application 5. Select Create a new IIS web site. 6. Give a Port number other than 80 7. Select NTLM under
Configuring search in sharepoint is easy task , if you know the steps. Sometimes i saw people are struggling to configure search, so i thought of writting one blog about search configuration. prerequisites for configuration. The important one is the user account . SSP application pool security account Security account for the application pool that the SSP resides in. SSP service account Used by the following: •SSP Web services for inter-server communication •SSP Timer service to run timer jobs Office SharePoint Server Search Used as the service account for the Office SharePoint Server Search service. There is only one instance of this service and it is used by all SSPs. Default content access account The default account used within a specific SSP to crawl content. If a specific account is not specified for a content source, the default content access account is used. Content access account A specific account that is configured to access a content source. This account is optional and is