Installation accounts

Shopping Central installation account

The user installing Shopping Central requires the following:

Must be a domain user.
Must be a member of the Shopping Administrators (ADMINACCOUNT) group.
Must have local admin rights on the server on which Shopping Central will be installed. If the Shopping Central Service and Web components are to be installed on separate servers, the user installing them must have local admin rights on each server.
Must have local admin rights on the Configuration Manager site server.
Must be a member of the Full Administrator role in Configuration Manager as the installer adds ConfigMgr Security rights for the Shopping Central Service Account.
Requires one of the following sets of rights on the SQL instance hosting the Shopping database:
- Sysadmin (can be temporary for the duration of installation).
- ALTER ANY LOGIN (on the SQL Server instance) and dbcreator (on the instance) if the installation will create the database.
- ALTER ANY LOGIN (on the SQL Server instance) and db_owner (on the database) if the Shopping database already exists.
Requires one of the following sets of rights on the SQL Server instance hosting Configuration Manager database:
- Sysadmin (can be temporary for the duration of installation).
- ALTER ANY LOGIN and db_owner.
If you want to enable the 1E Platform integration during Shopping Central installation, the installation account must have privileges to create 1E objects. See 1E Platform integration for details.

The user installing the Shopping Receiver requires the following:

Must be a domain account.
Must have sysadmin rights on each SQL instance hosting the Configuration Manager database.
Must be a member of the Full Administrator role in Configuration Manager.
It is useful to be a Shopping Administrator with access to the Setting up Configuration Manager sites in order to select the Primary Site, otherwise another Administrator can complete that step after installation.