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Is there a 'best practice' on how many domain service accounts to create for the MOSS installation I have been using one account for MOSS install, farm servers, app pool, etc. Is it better to use multiple accounts What are the benefits

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Re: Accounts

Ben Stegink


From everything I've seen and read, and what I do when I install MOSS is create 4 accounts.

1. SharePoint Administrator - the SharePoint admin, log in as this user when installing SharePoint as well as the Administrator user you need to enter when running the configuration wizard. This user needs local admin rights to install SharePoint as well as rights on the DB server to created DB's and assign permissions to those DBs

2. SharePoint Web Application - This user is used for the app pool identity on all the web applications as well as the Shared Services credentials. This user only needs domain user rights

3. SharePoint Search - This user is used when starting the search service. They need local admin access on the search server

4. SharePoint Crawl - This is the content crawler for SharePoint, use this user when setting up indexing and crawling inside of Shared Services. This user only needs domain user rights.

That is how I set up my SharePoint installations based on various documents I've read about SharePoint and creating different accounts and how to set them all up.

I hope that helps,
Ben


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Re: Accounts

SQLChamp

Hello,

I am wondering if any of you know how to add another user to the Sharepoint Admin, so this user can manage Sharepoint Admin site, and perform various Sharepoint tasks.

Thanks,

-Lawrence



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Re: Accounts

Curtis Ruppe

You can go to the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration site, click on Operations, and finally click on "Update farm administrator's group".


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Re: Accounts

Patrik Luca

Hi,

I have been adding a new user to the farm administrator's group, but this user doesn't get automatically full control permissions on previously created sites. How can this be achieved





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