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Account Used for Running Setup

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, System Center 2012 - Service Manager

This topic describes the permissions that you need when you are installing a Service Manager management server and Service Manager console databases and when you are registering the Service Manager management group with the data warehouse management group in System Center 2012 – Service Manager.

Note


The account that you use to run Setup is automatically made an administrator in Service Manager.

Service Manager Management Server

You need the following permissions when you are installing a Service Manager management server:

  • Local administrator on the computer that you run Setup on

  • Local administrator on the computer that will host the Service Manager database if it is on a remote computer

  • Logged-on user must be a domain account

  • The Sysadmin SQL Server role on the SQL Server instance where the Service Manager database is being created

Service Manager Console

You need the following permissions when you are installing the Service Manager console:

  • Local administrator on the computer that you run Setup on

Data Warehouse Management Server

You need the following permissions when you are installing the data warehouse management server:

  • Local administrator on the computer that you run Setup on

  • Local administrator on the computer that will host the data warehouse database if it is on a remote computer

  • Logged-in user must be a domain account

  • The Content Manager role in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) at the site level (root)

  • The Sysadmin SQL Server role on the SQL Server instance where the data warehouse database is being created

SQL Server Reporting Services

You need the following permissions when you are installing SSRS:

  • Permissions to place a binary file into the \Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\<Instance Name>\Reporting Services\ReportServer\Bin folder on the computer hosting the data warehouse management server

Registering Service Manager with the Data Warehouse

You need the following permissions when you are registering Service Manager with the data warehouse:

  • The Sysadmin or security admin SQL Server role on the instance that is hosting the Service Manager database

  • The Sysadmin or security admin SQL Server role on the instance that is hosting the data warehouse database

  • Membership in the Service Manager Administrators user role on the Service Manager management server

  • Membership in the Service Manager Administrators user role on the data warehouse management server