Microsoft KB Archive/199234

= SMS: Systems Management Server 2.0 System Accounts =

Article ID: 199234

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q199234



SUMMARY
The purpose of this article is to help administrators understand the number of accounts that may be created as sites are added to the Systems Management Server hierarchy. Systems Management Server 2.0 creates and uses more domain accounts than are used in Systems Management Server 1.2. A typical Systems Management Server 2.0 installation will create the accounts listed in the MORE INFORMATION section of this article on the site server if it is the only computer with Systems Management Server 2.0 installed.



MORE INFORMATION
The accounts are as follows:


 * SMS Client Network Connection Account

This domain account is created by Setup. Only one per site is created; however, the administrator can create as many accounts as are required to address specific security issues.
 * SMS Server Network Connection Account

Setup creates one of these accounts per site.
 * SMS Remote Service Account

You may have more than two of these accounts, depending on the number of remote client access points (CAPs) that have been installed.
 * SMSCliToknAcct& Account

This is an internal Systems Management Server account. Only one of these accounts is created per domain, regardless of the number of sites installed within that domain.
 * SMS&_ Account

One of these accounts is created for each domain controller in the enumerated domain, regardless of the number of sites within that domain.

To calculate the number of accounts that Systems Management Server will generate upon installation of the hierarchy, use the following guidelines:

SMS Client Network Connection account:  1 x SMS Server Network Connection account:   1 x SMS Remote Service account:              2 x  (default is 1 CAP per site) SMSCliToknAcct& account:                1 x SMS&_ account:                  1 x SMS Client Network Connection account:  1 x 10 =  10   1 site per domain SMS Server Network Connection account:  1 x 10 =  10 SMS Remote Service account:             2 x 10 =  20 SMSCliToknAcct& account:                1 x 10 =  10 SMS&_ account:                 1 x 10 =  10 Total : 60 accounts

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