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SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: Service Accounts

SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: Service Accounts

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For a SharePoint installation, this page recommends the following best practices and naming conventions for service accounts:

Service Account Overview

  • SQL_Service, for the SQL Server service.
  • SQL_Admin, for the SQL Server administrator.
  • SP_Admin, for the SharePoint administrator and setup user.
  • SP_Farm, for the SharePoint farm service.
  • SP_WebApps, for the user-facing web application app pool.
  • SP_ServiceApps, for the service application app pool.
  • SP_Crawl, default content access account.
  • SP_UserSync, user profile synchronization account.
  • SP_EnterpriseAdmin, powerful account for handling all kinds of high privilge operations.
  • Farm administrators, normal admin user accounts are used as SharePoint Farm Administrators.


SQL_Service

​​This account should be used for running SQL Server engine and SQL Server Agent. Create inside Service Manage Accounts Container inside AD to keep it controlled. Have the following characteristics:​

  • Belongs to the Users Domain Group.
  • ​​Use only for this two SQL services, if installed more (what you should do) keep the service accounts suggested by the installation program..

SP_EnterpriseAdmin

This account is needed for performing high privilege jobs and (such as installing fixes, upgrades, etc.). It needs to have the following permissions:

  • Either SQL Administrator or db_owner of all SharePoint databases.
  • Local administrator of each SharePoint server.
  • Member of Farm Administrators group.

See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12438.sharepoint-2013-best-practices.aspx for more information.

Please Note This page is a community driven effort and is open for update. Originally, it was based on the work of Dan Holme (http://www.sharepointpromag.com/author/5052626/DanHolme).

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