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.
- 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
- 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
- Meridian PowerWeb application pool as described in PowerWeb Server Privileges
- Accruent web services application pool when used with AutoVue Client/Server as described in Install Autovue
- 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
- User group synchronization with Active Directory as described in Synchronize User Groups With Active Directory
- Shared workspace synchronization as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide
- Access to other Active Directory domains as described in Grant Membership Query Access
- 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 the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Meridian Explorer repository creation as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Account used to send publishing job notification messages as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Account used by Meridian to register rendition publishing tasks as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Publishing job metadata storage as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Scheduling Publisher jobs as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Account used by Publisher to publish documents to or from Meridian Project Portal as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Account used by Publisher to publish documents to or from SharePoint as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Account used to run the Accruent File Publishing Service as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Account used to run the Meridian Project Portal Publishing Service as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide
- Scheduling email import by the Accruent Meridian Email Manager module as described in the Accruent Meridian Email Manager Configuration Guide
- Creating Meridian Global Collaboration Framework shares and scheduling the export and import processors as described in the Accruent Meridian Global Collaboration Framework Administrator's Guide
