I would like to ask for support regarding this problem: SSP provisioning will be retried periodically. If you correct the error that caused this failure, provisioning will subsequently succeed. To stop provisioning from being retired, delete the SSP. I'm creating a New SSP & everytime I create, I received that message. I tried to reset the IIS already, restart the machine, but still I received that error after I create a new SSP. Wait for soonest advise!

Here's an answered post with the same error: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/e6047805-7c47-4c84-9309-1a11880c0472 Cheers,Daniel Bugday Web: SharePoint Forum Blog: SharePoint By Bugday

So if you find this as a persisting problem. i would always try to find te root cause. I would check the eventviewer, SharePoint Logs. Also turn off the custom errors and find the actual error message comming when trying to access the SSP site. Navigate to the site directory. Backup web.config. Open web.config. Switch Custom Errors off. Search for “customErrors” and set the value to “Off” instead of “On”. You can also set the value to “RemoteOnly” to troubleshoot a production issue. Enable CallStack. Search for “CallStack” and set the value to “true” instead of “false”. Save web.config. HTH~ Jeethu Joseph | Consultant ~ SharePoint |MCP,MCAD.Net,MCSD.Net,MCTS,A+| http://sharepointlogics.com/