April 16, 2008 at 11:41 am
Okay, I have been able to confirm that the domain\server$ accounts are related to Reporting Services and application pools. the is a good write up at sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/stevechowles/archive/2007/07/02/reporting-services-2005-for-the-dba-changing-application-pool-identity.aspx that describes what I was looking for.
Thanks,
Mark
Mark Johnson
MCP, MCTS Sql Server 2005,MCTS Sql Server 2008, OCP
April 16, 2008 at 11:46 am
Thanks for the update and reference. That's great information to have.
April 16, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Side note - typically, domain\servername$ accounts are used by the Network Service builtin account. So if any service is configured to use Network Service as its account and it requires access to an SQL Server, it will use the machine credentials (i.e. domain\servername$).
Be warned - ANY service that uses Network Service as its account will have access to any server/database that the machine account is granted access to, whether it needs it or not. Strengthening the position of 'use dedicated service accounts'.
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