Configuring Server Farm Account Settings

You can configure the following on the Configure Server Farm Account Settings page:

• Contact e-mail address   Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides an e-mail address to each Web site it crawls when creating an index. If a problem occurs while crawling (for example, the crawler is hitting the site too much), the administrator of the Web site can contact this address. All portals on the server provide this e-mail address when creating an index. For this reason, the e-mail address for the server farm administrator is typically specified.
• Configuration database administration account   The configuration database administration account is the user name and password that SharePoint Portal Server uses when connecting to the configuration database or when propagating full-text indexes from index management servers to search servers. At a minimum, this account must be a member of the Power Users local group on the front-end Web servers, index management servers, and search servers. This account must be a member of the local Administrators group on the document library server. In addition, this account must be a member of the Security Administrators and Database Creators server roles on Microsoft SQL Server.
• Default content access account   The default content access account is the user name and password used when SharePoint Portal Server creates a full-text index of content outside the portal. The account must have Read permissions for the Web sites and servers being crawled.
• Portal site application pool identity   This account is the identity of the application pool used by portal sites. This account must be a member of the local Administrators group on the document library server.
• Proxy server settings   You can configure SharePoint Portal Server to use a proxy server when it creates full-text indexes of external Web sites. Using a proxy server enhances the security of your intranet by helping to prevent unauthorized access by someone on the Internet. A proxy server also enhances performance by caching recently accessed Web pages, which minimizes download time.

For more information about access accounts for search, see About Access Accounts for Search. For more information about configuring proxy server settings, see Specifying Proxy Server Settings.

Configure server farm account settings

1. To get to the Configure Server Farm Account Settings page, do one of the following:
   • On the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration for server_name page, in the Server Configuration section, click Configure server farm account settings.
   • On the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration for server_name page, in the Component Configuration section, click Manage the Search Service. On the Manage Search Settings page, in the Search Service Settings section, click Configure account and proxy settings.
2. On the Configure Server Farm Account Settings page, in the Contact E-mail Address section, in the E-mail address box, type the e-mail address that an external site administrator can contact if problems occur when SharePoint Portal Server crawls the external site.
3. In the Configuration Database Administration Account section, do the following:
   • Select the Specify account check box.
   • In the User name (DOMAIN\user name) box, type the account name in the format DOMAIN\user_name.
   • In the Password box, type the password for the account.
   • In the Confirm Password box, type the password again.
4. In the Default Content Access Account section, do the following:
   • Select the Specify account check box.
   • In the User name (DOMAIN\user name) box, type the account name in the format DOMAIN\user_name.
   • In the Password box, type the password for the account.
   • In the Confirm Password box, type the password again.
5. In the Portal Site Application Pool Identity section, do the following:
   • Select the Change account settings check box.
   • In the User name (DOMAIN\user name) box, type the account name in the format DOMAIN\user_name.
   • In the Password box, type the password for the account.
   • In the Confirm Password box, type the password again.
6. In the Proxy Server Settings section, do one of the following:
   • Click Do not connect by using a proxy server.
   • Click Use the proxy server specified, and then specify the following:
     1. In the Address box, type the address of the proxy server that you want SharePoint Portal Server to use while creating full-text indexes.
     2. In the Port box, type the port number for the proxy server that you want SharePoint Portal Server to use while creating indexes of sites and servers.
     3. If you do not want SharePoint Portal Server to use the proxy server when creating an index of local addresses, select the Bypass proxy server for local (intranet) addresses check box.
     4. If you have specific addresses for which you do not want to use the proxy server, in the Do not use proxy server for addresses beginning with box, type the addresses.
7. Click OK.