Thursday, July 30, 2009

SSP in MOSS

SSP

In MOSS 2007 there is this new concept of Shared Services Providers(SSP). The idea being that there are certain services that really make sense to centrally manage and share. A good example being profiles. With a SSP we can import all of the profile information from AD once and then our various web applications can consume the data. So maybe we have http://marketing and http://accounting it doesn't make sense for each one to maintain identical profile information, they should share.

The major services that are handled by the SSP are:

  • Profiles and Audiences
  • My Sites
  • Search
  • All of Excel Services
  • All of the BDC (Business Data Catalog)

Below is an example screen shot from MOSS 2007 Enterprise:

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