FAQTs - Knowledge Base - View Entry - After installing Biztalk 2004, the Application Event Log says: The master secret has not been backed up. If you lose the master secret all the information stored in the SSO system will be lost permanently and your systems may fail to work correctly. Please use the SSO admin tools to back up your master secret.This causes an message in your ApplicationEventLog every 15 (with a source of ENTSSO) minutes until you do the backup. So how do I backup the "master secret"?

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After installing Biztalk 2004, the Application Event Log says: The master secret has not been backed up. If you lose the master secret all the information stored in the SSO system will be lost permanently and your systems may fail to work correctly. Please use the SSO admin tools to back up your master secret.This causes an message in your ApplicationEventLog every 15 (with a source of ENTSSO) minutes until you do the backup. So how do I backup the "master secret"?

Apr 6th, 2005 22:46
Balaji Ramachandran, http://biztalk-training.com/Default.aspx?tabid=57

From a command prompt (so you can see any feedback or errors) run the 
following command: 
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-
On\SSOConfig.exe" –backupsecret mysecret.bak
(Might have to CD (Change-Directory) to the directory above and then 
just run SSOCONFIG.) 
However so far, every time I have run this utility it acts like I have 
given it a bad argument and spits out the following: 
-setdb : set SQL Server and SSO database names
-showdb : show the SQL Server and SSO database names
-createdb : create SSO database
-generatesecret : generate new SSO master secret
-backupsecret : backup current SSO master secret
-restoresecret : restore SSO master secret
-auditlevel : set SSO server audit level
-setssl : set SSL encryption
Seems like this happens when you try to copy/paste from this web page 
or SDK help into the command prompt window. I suggest just manually 
typing in the above command. 
You will be asked for a password when you backup the master secret. 
Will need this password if you ever attempt a restore. You will be 
prompted for a password (it must be 7 characters or more in length). If 
this is your own computer, and you aren't worried about security, you 
might create a file called "MySecretPassIsABCDEFG.bak" - then you will 
never forget the password! 
Reference: home.comcast.net/~sdwoodgate/BTS04AdminandSecurity.ppt 
Note: The filename is not written to the current directory. A 
successful backup will write a message to your application event log 
similar to this: 
The master secrets were successfully backed up.
File Name: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-
On\mysecret.bak