Hey – we’ve all made mistakes. We all know that “oh sh**” moment right after we realize what we’ve done. Often times this occurs right after we click a friendly “Are you sure??” dialog. Of course I’m sure – if I wasn’t sure I wouldn’t have chosen to do it in the first place! Stupid computer.
Anyway, I recently had a situation where someone (honestly, in this case it wasn’t me) accidentally deleted the Site Collection for the SSP admin site (/ssp/admin). Since this was for a SharePoint farm in production I really didn’t want to have to re-create the entire SSP but I couldn’t figure out how to just re-create the site collection itself. I figured there had to be a site template for the site but since it didn’t show up in the Create Site Collection UI I went and looked on disk. Sure enough, a site template exists for the SSP Admin site. It’s called OSRV.
So to create a new SSP admin site, run this command line.
stsadm.exe -o createsite -url http://<server>:<ssp_port>/ssp/admin -owneremail <email address> -ownerlogin <account> -sitetemplate OSRV#0 -title "Shared Services Administration: <your ssp name>"
This might take a little while to complete, but it does eventually finish.
Next you need to edit the SSP to point to the recreated site.
stsadm.exe -o editssp -title "<your ssp name>" -sspadminsite http://<server>:<ssp_port>/ssp/admin
That’s it. You should be back up and running.
Anonymous | 27-Jan-09 at 4:14 pm | Permalink
Thanks a lot! Great Post!
JJ | 27-Apr-09 at 7:40 am | Permalink
I recently created a new site based on the template “OSRV#0″ while trying to move the SSP Admin site from one server to another – it looked like all was well, but I found several broken links in the SSP admin site afterwards:
“Trusted My Site Locations”
“Published links to Office client applications”
“Personalization site links”
Did you have the same issue?
Alxdean | 18-Feb-10 at 2:47 pm | Permalink
just followed these steps as I had a typo in the Web App Name for the ssp site which was driving me insane.
worked like a dream.
This actually means you could host the ssp admin site on the same web app as CA if you wanted to. ouch. scary thought.
alxdean | 18-Feb-10 at 2:55 pm | Permalink
oops. just realised. was looking at wrong ssp.
I have the same issue as JJ. those links are bust