Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Error configuring SSO in MOSS 2007

Configuring SSO service on Moss 007 should be a smiple operation…well sometimes. Some times when you want to create the SSO database and configure single sign-on on MOSS 2007 you get an error:

You do not have the rights to perform this operation

Well, this is a user rights issue. I am not stating the obvious and that anyone can figure that we can guess that from the error message. You check the account that you used to log into the MOSS Central admin page and you are sure that you used the MOSS central admin account. This is why this error is confusing. If you use the MOSS Central admin account why would you get that error and how can you resolve the issue? The solution is to use the same service account of SSO service as the SSO Administrator Account at the "Manage Server Settings" page and you have to log in to the Central Administration site with the SSO service account to configure SSO.

I hope that will help someone out there.