There are problem with the core-cms: 1. You *must* deploy the jboss-portal.sar first, and then the portal-cms.sar. If you do not, the cms will not deploy at all, due to some issues with security/identity. 2. If you deploy the portal-cms.sar in a running instance of AS, it will create all the resources. a. File creation is sloooooow. b. Also, when you log in to the cmsAdminPortlet, it doesn't show the root directory so you can't do anything. I wouldn't be surprised if this is also related to identity integration. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4002301#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...