Appendix I: Service account usage

There are many locations where a dedicated service account can be used in Meridian Enterprise and its related BlueCielo products. We recommend that you specify the same account for all of the following that apply in your environment:

• AutoManager EDM Server service in the Services control panel as described in the preceding task
• AutoManager Task Server in the Services control panel
• BlueCielo Meridian Services in the Services control panel
• BlueCielo License Server in the Services control panel
• BlueCielo File System (AMFS) service in the Services control panel
• Windows account associated with a dedicated Meridian user account to grant access to vault documents to Meridian Web Access and other systems
• Service Principal Name (SPN) described in Enabling DCOM, if necessary
• Account used by Meridian for vaults hosted in Microsoft SQL Server as described in Configuring the Windows account used by Meridian
• Rescue account as described in Creating a rescue account for security administration
• Identity of the BlueCielo Meridian Services DCOM service as described in Configuring the DCOM identity of remote services
• Integration with an SMTP mail server as described in Specifying a mail server
• Meridian Web Access application pool as described in Understanding the Web Access server privileges
• BlueCielo web services application pool when used with AutoVue Client/Server as described in Installing AutoVue Client/Server
• Subscriptions and audit trail viewer application pool as described in Installing the subscriptions viewer
• Notifications table connection string as described in Viewing and editing vault properties
• Audit table connection string as described in Viewing and editing vault properties
• Scheduling vault backup and recovery tasks as described in About backups and recovery
• Scheduling vault archiving as described in Running the Vault Archive Wizard
• Scheduling full-text content indexing as described in Configuring content indexing
• User group synchronization with Active Directory as described in Synchronizing user groups with Active Directory
• Shared workspace synchronization as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Configuration Guide
• Access to other Active Directory domains as described in Granting membership query access
• Configuring data encryption as described in Understanding the effects of software data encryption
• Vault data storage on SAN or NAS devices as described in Understanding the effects of disk subsystems
• Meridian Enterprise Server application pool as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Meridian Explorer repository creation as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Account used to send publishing job notification messages as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Account used by Meridian to register rendition publishing tasks as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Publishing job metadata storage as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Scheduling Publisher jobs as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Account used by Publisher to publish documents to or from Meridian Project Portal as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Account used by Publisher to publish documents to or from SharePoint as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Account used to run the BlueCielo File Publishing Service as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Account used to run the Meridian Project Portal Publishing Service as described in the BlueCieloMeridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
• Scheduling email import by the BlueCielo Meridian Email Manager module as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Email Manager Configuration Guide
• Creating Meridian Global Collaboration Framework shares and scheduling the export and import processors as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Global Collaboration Framework Administrator's Guide