FW: moss ssp Failed to provision-No running instances of Shared Services Provider provisioni

 

Moss ssp Failed to provision-No running instances of Shared Services Provider provisioning job service are online

We ran into an interesting problem on a client installation. the server was running on a Virtual Server environment, everyone our customer wocould try to provision a Shared Service Provider, the provisioning wowould fail with the following message "No running instances of Shared Services Provider provisioning job service are online ". the ULS trace log and a google search yielded to no hints on a solution.

I remembered a similar issue with Excel service and run the following command

Stsadm.exe-o enumservices

And noticed that the service called was set to "Disabled"

<Service>
<Type> Microsoft. Office. Server. Administration. OfficeServerService, Microsoft. Office. Server, Version = 12.0.0.0, Culture = neutral, PublicKeyToken = 71e9bce111e9429c </Type>
<Name/>
<DisplayName> SSP Job Control Service </DisplayName>
<Status> Disabled </Status>
</Service>

To solve the problem we ran the two following commands:

 

Stsadm.exe-o provisionservice-action stop-servicetype "Microsoft. Office. Server. Administration. OfficeServerService, Microsoft. Office. Server, Version = 12.0.0.0, Culture = neutral, PublicKeyToken = 71e9bce111e9429c"

Stsadm.exe-o provisionservice-action start-servicetype "Microsoft. Office. Server. Administration. OfficeServerService, Microsoft. Office. Server, Version = 12.0.0.0, Culture = neutral, PublicKeyToken = 71e9bce111e9429c"

 

A quick check on the services showed the SSP Job Control Service status to be started

Hope this helps other

 

FW: moss ssp Failed to provision-No running instances of Shared Services Provider provisioning job service are online