Managing Hosts and Service Accounts

Before you create a host and host instances you must:

• Create the Windows group for the host.
• Create service accounts for each host instance.
• Add the service accounts to the host Windows group.

Required user rights for managing hosts and service accounts

You must be a Windows administrator to perform the following tasks:

• Create a host Windows group
• Create service accounts for each host instance
• Add the service accounts to the host Windows group
• Update the host Windows group credentials

Creating a host Windows group

In local group environment, the group name that you specify for the Host should not include the computer name. However, if you specify <computer name>\ as the prefix, it will only work if the <computer name> is the name of the SQL Server computer. Do not specify <computer name>\ as the prefix in local group environment setup.

To setup host to use local group in multi boxes environment:

1. Create local groups and users on both Runtime and MgmtDb SQL computers.
2. Ensure that the local user is a member of the local group on both the Runtime and MgmtDb SQL computers.
3. When you create a host, do not specify <computer name>\ as the prefix for the group name.
4. Do not specify <computer name>\ as prefix for the host instance name.

Note  If you are using a Domain group, you must specify <Domain Name>\ as the prefix for the host Windows Group name.

See Also

Managing BizTalk Server Security

Managing the BizTalk Administrators Group

Managing Signing Certificates

Best Practices for Security, Accounts, and Certificates