http://blogs.technet.com/chris_hernandez/archive/2007/10/03/creating-shared-service-provider-ssp-via-command-line-options.aspxUsing the SharePoint Admin UI there can often be quite a delay to perform administrative actions compared to doing the same actions via the powerful command-line tools. One of the tools that should be very familiar to SharePoint Admins is STSADM.exe.en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/chris_hernandez/archive/2007/10/03/creating-shared-service-provider-ssp-via-command-line-options.aspx#2824420Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:27:39 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2824420michaelve<p>Hello.</p> <p>I was wondering if there is a way to enumerate/edit/create SSP providers on a farm/server programmatically.</p> <p>Thank you.</p> http://blogs.technet.com/chris_hernandez/archive/2007/10/03/creating-shared-service-provider-ssp-via-command-line-options.aspx#2828390Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:44:12 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2828390chrishe<p>Hello michaelve,</p> <p>See the entry for SPWebApplication (<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spwebapplication_members.aspx">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spwebapplication_members.aspx</a>)</p> <p>For enumerating existing SSPs, it will be something along these lines:</p> <p>foreach (SPWebApplication spWebApp in srv.WebApplications)</p> <p>if spWebApp.Properties.ContainsKey(&quot;Microsoft.Office.Server.SharedResourceProvider&quot;)</p> <p>// found the SSP</p>