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Charles_C
Level 4
13 years ago

What dose Enterprise Vault Data Access account use for?

Hi expert,

 

saw there are two things needed to be configure in the directory of the ev server,

one is the service account, another one is data access account.

i know that service account is the account which runs all the ev processes and services.

however, i am just wondering what is the purpose of enterprise vault data access acount.

In the manual of domino archiving, it just asks me to create this windows account.

but i am wondering what permissions i should grant or what is the best practice?

I know it is something related to web and iis, can i use put anoymous account inside?

Thanks

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  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    13 years ago

    From the help file

     

    Directory Properties: Data Access Account

    The Data Access account is an account that Enterprise Vault uses to request items on behalf of a user.

    This account is used by the following:

    • The Domino Mailbox Archiving web application

    • The Enterprise Vault OWA extensions

    Note:

    If you use OWA, this account must be the same account as you use for OWA. If you change the account on this tab you must also use the OWA script to configure the same account for OWA.

    Log on as

    • Account. The name of the Data Access account.

      If you want to select a different account click Browse to pick from the list of accounts. Enter the account's password and confirm it. The account you pick should be a basic domain account specifically created for the purpose; you cannot use a local machine account.

    • Password. The password for the Data Access account.

    • Confirm password. The password for the Data Access account.

  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    13 years ago
    Just hit the help button and it will tell you very thing you need to know about the account and what it's used for etc
  • BigPhil's avatar
    BigPhil
    Level 5
    13 years ago

    Just took a look at the article you linked to and it appears that the "Data Access Account" is really only used for Domino Mailbox Archiving web and not necessary for Exchange Server OWA configuration (uses the owauser.wsf file). If all you use is Exchange/OWA then there is no need to configure this setting and only need to use the script and exchangeservers.txt file.

  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    From the help file

     

    Directory Properties: Data Access Account

    The Data Access account is an account that Enterprise Vault uses to request items on behalf of a user.

    This account is used by the following:

    • The Domino Mailbox Archiving web application

    • The Enterprise Vault OWA extensions

    Note:

    If you use OWA, this account must be the same account as you use for OWA. If you change the account on this tab you must also use the OWA script to configure the same account for OWA.

    Log on as

    • Account. The name of the Data Access account.

      If you want to select a different account click Browse to pick from the list of accounts. Enter the account's password and confirm it. The account you pick should be a basic domain account specifically created for the purpose; you cannot use a local machine account.

    • Password. The password for the Data Access account.

    • Confirm password. The password for the Data Access account.

  • BigPhil's avatar
    BigPhil
    Level 5
    13 years ago

    Yes, but my point is that the documenation is a bit missleading. It is not necessary to configure the Data Access Account via that tab if you only use Microsoft Exchange. Simply running the owauser.wsf script is all you need to do for anonymous access to OWA.