Service Account Usage

There are many locations where a dedicated service account can be used in Meridian Enterprise and its related Accruent products. We recommend that you specify the same account for all of the following that apply in your environment. The account can be set for many of these services by entering the account name when prompted during installation as described in Install the Server Components.

• Managing services, such as:

  • AutoManager EDM Server service in the Services control panel

  • AutoManager Task Server in the Services control panel

  • Accruent Meridian Services in the Services control panel

  • Accruent License Server in the Services control panel

• Dedicated Meridian user account to grant access to vault documents to Meridian PowerWeb and other systems

• Service Principal Name (SPN) described in Enable DCOM, if necessary

• Account used by Meridian for vaults hosted in Microsoft SQL Server as described in Configure the Windows Account Used By Meridian

• For activities related to Network Administration, such as:

  • Rescue account as described in Create a Rescue Account For Security Administration

  • Identity of the Accruent Meridian Services DCOM service as described in Configure the DCOM Identity Of Remote Services

  • Integration with an SMTP mail server as described in Specify a Mail Server - Administrator

  • Meridian PowerWeb application pool as described in PowerWeb Server Privileges

  • Shared workspace synchronization as described in Configure Shared Workspaces

  • User group synchronization with Active Directory as described in Synchronize User Groups With Active Directory

  • Access to other Active Directory domains as described in Grant Membership Query Access

• For activities related to setting up vaults, such as:

  • Subscriptions and audit trail viewer application pool as described in Install the Subscriptions Viewer

  • Notifications table connection string as described in View and Edit Vault Properties

  • Audit table connection string as described in View and Edit Vault Properties

  • Scheduling vault backup and recovery tasks as described in Backups And Recovery

  • Scheduling vault archiving as described in Run the Vault Archive Wizard

  • Scheduling full-text content indexing as described in Configure Content Indexing

• Configuring data encryption as described in Software Data Encryption

• Vault data storage on SAN or NAS devices as described in Disk Subsystems

• Meridian Enterprise Server application pool as described in Configure the Application Pool Account

• Meridian Explorer repository creation as described in Create a Meridian Explorer Repository

• For activities related to managing Publisher and publishing jobs, such as:

  • Account used to send publishing job notification messages as described in Specify a Mail Server - Enterprise Server

  • Account used by Meridian to register rendition publishing tasks as described in Register Documents For Publication

  • Publishing job metadata storage as described in Configure a Publishing Job

  • Scheduling Publisher jobs as described in Schedule Publishing Jobs

  • Account used by Publisher to publish documents to or from Meridian Project Portal as described in Accruent Project Portal System Link

  • Account used by Publisher to publish documents to or from SharePoint as described in SharePoint System Link

  • Account used to run the Accruent File Publishing Service as described in Configure the Accruent File Publishing Service

  • Account used to run the Meridian Project Portal Publishing Service as described in Configure the Accruent Project Portal Publishing Service