I have a really interesting situation. All of my company's SharePoint servers are hosted by a third party, and one of the techs there decided to unintall IIS from the server that we have designated as the SharePoint Application server. (We have two web servers and a database server in addition). I reinstalled IIS and was able to get the Central Administration page to work again and am able to access the Operations and Application Management sections. The issue that I'm having is that the Shared Serives Administration is still not working. Specifically, when I attempt to go to the SSP, I am getting a "The page cannot be displayed" message. The URL that I'm being directed to is http://myservername:26263/ssp/admin and I'm not seeing that directory structure in wss directory. The impact to my organization is that crawler is not running so search results are stale. I cannot manually kick off a crawl using stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart because I get the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." What do I need to do in order to get the SSP functioning again? Please help!

Hi, 1. Please check the web application hosting the SSP to make sure it is working fine. 2. Please go to your event reviewer to check if there are some relevant errors to narrow down the issue scope. Hope it is helpful!Seven

you can try re - running the setup wizard, or failing that, reinstall moss (join the existing farm) another approach is remove server from farm first, then reinstall. Save the web.config files if you have customized them.

Thanks for the responses. Unfortunately my event log doesn't provide any more details and the web app is working. I had run the setup wizard again to reconfigure the central administration page. Unfortunately it did not fix the SSP. I will probably try to remove the server from the farm and then reinstall. Thanks for the help.