What accounts do I need?

To deploy Winshuttle CENTRAL on a SharePoint site, you must provide credentials for two different accounts and an email address.

The following table describes the accounts that are used to install and configure Winshuttle CENTRAL.

Account

Purpose

Requirements

Setup user account

The Setup user account is used to run the CENTRAL installer

This will deploy the CENTRAL .wsp

Local administrator on each server on which CENTRAL will be installed

SharePoint Farm Administrator

SQL Server service account

The SQL Server service account is used to install the CENTRAL database

dbcreator fixed server role on SQL server instance

Email address

The Email address will be used as the "From" address for task notifications for TRANSACTION or QUERY script approvals

An outbound SMTP server