Determine the accounts you will need to install and configure MOSS 2007 Enterprise Edition?

Below you will find the list of accounts you will need and a suggested account name followed by a brief explanation of anything special about this account. You will be creating the accounts in AD.
1) Setup Account – SP_Admin – This is the account that you will log into the MOSS server to do the install and when you wish to administer the server. This account will need to be a local administrator on the MOSS server and be given the securityadmin and dbcreator roles from within SQL Server.

2) Farm Account – SP_Farm – This is the account that your farm will connect to the SQL Server as. It should only be a domain user. When you tell MOSS to use this account it will automatically set the account up as a dbcreator, securityadmin, and db_owner for all SharePoint databases.

3) WSS Search Service – SP_WSSSearch – This account is a domain user. SharePoint will automatically assign it read access to the configuration database and the content database for central administration.

4) WSS Search Crawl – SP_WSSCrawl – This account is a domain user. SharePoint will automatically grant this account Full read to the farm.

5) MOSS Search – SP_MossSearch – This account is a domain user. SharePoint will grant access to read the configuration database and read access to all content databases hosted in the farm. This will become you default content access account for crawling.

6) SSP App Pool – SP_SSPAppPool – This account is a domain user. SharePoint automatically gives this account db_owner for the SSP content database, read & write to all content databases associated with its SSP, read access to the configuration database, and read access to the central administration database.

7) SSP Service – SP_SSPService – This account is a domain user. Same permissions as the SSP App Pool

8) MY App Pool – SP_MyAppPool – This account is a domain user. This account will be used as the identity for the My Sites application pool. It will be granted db_owner to that content database, read access to the config and central administration databases, and read access to the associated SSP database.

9) Portal App Pool – SP_PortalAppPool – This account is a domain user. This account will be used as the identity for the portal application pool in the Module 3 lab. It will be granted db_owner to that content database, read access to the config and central administration databases, and read access to the associated SSP database.