Friday, August 15, 2008

Unable to delete Shared Services

DESCRIPTION: Unable to Delete Shared Services when it's database is deleted from SQL server.

SYMPTOMS: Unable to delete Shared Services. There are still some objects which are dependent on configuration database and on project serve, due to which users are unable to delete SSP. Manually deleting of SSP using stsadm -o deletessp -title "ssp_name" command also shows same error.

ERROR MESSAGE: “An object in the SharePoint administrative framework, "SharedResourceProvider Name=SSP Parent=SPFarm Name=MOSS", could not be deleted because other objects depend on it. Update all of these dependants to point to null or different objects and retry this operation. The dependant objects are as follows: ProjectPSISharedApplicationTimerJob Name=Project Server Synchronizing Job for 'SSP' Parent=ProjectApplicationService Name=ProjectApplicationService”

RESOLUTION: ° Identify the GUID for the problem SSP. ° Use STSADM -o deleteconfigurationobject -id "id retrieved from object table" to remove these items from the configuration database.

Use the following procedure to identify the Shared Services GUID:

Login to SQL server. ° Open SQL Management Studio and expend Databases. ° Expand Configuration Database & Tables. ° Opened table for dbo.object. ° Executed following query in query analyzer: SELECT * FROM [MOSS_CFG_CA_01].[dbo].[Objects]where name like 'Name of the Shared Services'. ° Copy the ID of object referenced in objects table of configuration database. ° Open command prompt and changed directory to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN> and executed following command to delete the Shared Services using the ID which was copied: Stsadm -o deleteconfigurationobject -id "id retrieved from object table"


Shared Services should be deleted from the Cenral Administration.

2 comments:

Brent V said...

Your tip worked great for me. The only thing was I thought it would make it so the deletessp command would work, but instead it just delete the configuration data reference to the object and made the deletessp not work anymore since the configuration database no longer knows about the Shared Services Provider. After that, it seems that I had to clean out the web site, database, app pool, etc from the configuration database in the same manner.

The deleteconfigurationobject is a VERY powerful command. I recommend using it with caution.

Kailash Dhondiyal said...

http://dhondiyals.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/resolved-an-object-in-the-sharepoint-administrative-framework-could-not-be-deleted-because-other-objects-depend-on-it/

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