Help! I followed the following guidelines to create our SharePoint 2013 service accounts:
Account name | Role | Domain rights | Local SharePoint Server rights needed | SQL rights needed |
sp_install | Used to install SharePoint binaries. | Domain User | Local administrator on all SharePoint boxes | dbcreator and securityadmin SQL roles |
sp_farm | Farm account. Used for Windows Timer Service, Central Admin and User Profile service | Domain User | Local Admin during UPS provisioning, log on locally right | None |
sp_webapp | App pool id for content web apps | Domain User | None | None |
sp_serviceapps | Service app pool id | Domain User | None | None, unless using Office Web Apps. Them must give access to content databases manually |
sp_search | Search process id | Domain User | None | None |
sp_content | Account used to crawl content | Domain User | None | None |
sp_userprofile<sup>1</sup> | Account used by the User Profile services to access Active Directory | Must have Replicating Change permissions to AD. Must be given in BOTH ADUC and ADSIEDIT. If domain is Windows 2003 or early, must also be a member of the "Pre-Windows 2000" built-in group. | None | None |
sp_superuser<sup>2</sup> | Cache account | Domain User | Web application Policy Full Control Web application super account setting | None |
sp_superreader<sup>2</sup> | Cache account | Domain User | Web application Policy Full read Web application super reader account setting | None |
And I followed this article as well:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445(v=office.15).aspx
However, none of my service app pools, or web app pools will work under any accountbut the Farm account. If I navigate to Security-->Configure service accounts and select an account other than the Farm account for my service or web app pools, then the server returns a "service is unavailable" error and the the app pool stops in IIS.
I have registered all the accounts, I double -checked the accounts in AD, but nothing works. So currently I have everything running under the Farm account, and of course, the health analyzer is complaining. I have verified everything I know of so far and i'm not sure what the problem is at this point.
Thank you for any suggestion you may have!
A. Fagan