Wednesday, April 1, 2009

MOSS Service Accounts

These are the various service accounts used when setting up a new two server MOSS installation
  1. spSql
    1. This account is used by MOSS to access the databases. Additionally, it is used as the identity for the Central Administration application pool & the WSS Timer service.
  2. spSearch
    1. This account is utilized by all of the Shared Service Provider to crawl local & remote content.
  3. spAppPool
    1. Use this for all Application Pool accounts
  4. spSsp
    1. This account is used for the SSP web services & the SSP timer jobs.
  5. spContentAccess
    1. The default account for crawling content
Thanks to Chris Regan and his blog posting on MOSS Setup / Service Accounts for helping me understand how things work a little better.

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