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Opsmgr2007: Answering some common deployment questions (Part 1)
Satya Vel answers some questions about deploying System Center Operations Manager 2007.What level of privileges are required to install the product?
Someone recently asked a question regarding what level of privileges are required to install the product and later they asked me why the accounts had to be what they were. I thought I would take some time to write this blogs and explain these accounts in a simple way.
The account doing the install on the server where the SQL server and Root Management Server are going to be installed needs to have local administrator privileges. To run MSI packages users must at a minimum have local admin privileges. In addition to this account would also require system administrator privileges on the instance of SQL where the Operations manager Database is going to be hosted. This would be required so that the setup can configure the necessary privileges for the SDK and Config service account and assign them the proper roles and rights on the Operations Manager Database as the SDK and the Config services read and write to the database Operations manager DB. The reason why we require the user installing to be an admin is because setup creates services, file/folders. It also creates SQL DB, SQL logins/roles so it needs to have necessary permission in order to do this.(continue at source)