Another option is to use the deploy-all target when you build Portal. Starting with 2.6, deploy only deploys the minimum that is required to run. If you just want to add the admin portlets, you can do: cd build;./build.sh deploy;cd ../core-admin;./build.sh deploy Note that this is all documented in section 2.3.5 of the reference guide: http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.6.2/referenceGuide/html/installation.ht... See also http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=PortalModules. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4093848#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...