You must create three domain user accounts for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and processes in your environment.

The three user accounts needed are as follows:

A unique domain user account that is used to crawl content on your sites and create indexes. This user account will be added to the Web application Full Read policy for your farm.

Tasks

  1. Create Service Accounts for Windows SharePoint Services

Create Service Accounts for Windows SharePoint Services

In this procedure, you will create the SharePoint_AppID, SharePointSrchSvc, and SharePointSrchCrl service accounts. You will also add the SharePoint_AppID account to the Windows-based Hosting Service Accounts group.

Procedure W08-DWSH.1: To create service accounts for Windows SharePoint Services

  1. On AD01, open Active Directory Users and Computers and expand your domain (fabrikam.com).

  2. Create three new user accounts SharePoint_AppID, SharePointSrchSvc, and SharePointSrchCrl. Set their passwords to never expire.

    Note:
    The account cannot have a blank password or a password that will expire.
  3. Add the SharePoint_AppID account as a member of the Windows-based Hosting Service Accounts group.