Enable Self-Serve Site Creation via STSADM
June 22nd, 2007
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If you forgot to enable this upon creation of the SSP, a really easy way to do it is with the stsadm utility… This is not near as hard as it will look or sound.
1. First off you have to open a command prompt, then go to %root%\program files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN (if you are using x64 system go “\program files (x86)\…”)
2. Then you type: stsadm -o enablessc -url http://yoursite
Some other options are: stsadm -o enablessc -url http://yoursite:port (example: stsadm -o enablessc -url http://demosite:7015)
stsadm -o enablessc -url http://yoursite -requiresecondarycontact (examples: stsadm -o enablessc -url http://demosite -requiresecondarycontact) or (stsadm -o enablessc -url http://demosite:7015 -requiresecondarycontact)
Require Secondary Contact: This will FORCE all top level site to have TWO contacts. This is a good best practice to follow if you plan to enable auto cleanup of sites later on… It will then ask all owners before deletion.
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