How many service accounts do you use for SharePoint 2010?

Question

Hi there, we're deploying SharePoint 2010 the first time for production and are not sure how many accounts we need. Currently we plan to use the following accounts:

Admin-Account - For use of administration tasks and installation

WebApplication-Account - Will be used by web applications

ServiceApplication-Account - Will be used by service application pool

Search-Service-Account - Will be used by search services

Search-Crawl-Account - Will be used by search crawler to access external content

What accounts do you use?

Regards, Alex

Answer 1

Technet - Account permissions and security settings (SharePoint Server 2010)

This article describes Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 administrative and services account permissions. It covers the following areas: Microsoft SQL Server, the file system, file shares, and registry entries.