How do I – Delete my SharePoint Shared Service Provider (SSP) when it fails to delete with STSADM

When you enter

STSADM -o deletessp

from your SharePoint web server command line, you should get this:

If you then proceed to try and delete your SSP with a command such as

STSADM -o deletessp –title SharedServices1

but it still fails to delete, then you could use the undocumented -force flag thus:

STSADM -o deletessp –title SharedServices1 -force

Which should yield this:

Gotta love those little –force flags.

Cheers
C