SCCM Service Account need Schema Admins
Hopefully an easy question. Does the SCCM service account need to be a member of Schema Admins after installation? Thanks
October 31st, 2008 2:52am

Hi, No it does not require schema admin rights.
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October 31st, 2008 11:10am

Hello,I think you are confusing a number of terminologies and issues here.SCCM does not require a service account, it uses a local system account to manage its resources through what was known as Advanced Security in SMS 2003.The issue of schema in relation to SCCM only arises when the AD schema is extended - you need Schema admins to extend the schema.Then, after extending the schema, you need to create the System Management container under System and give the SCCM site server machine accounts full control of the folder and all its child objects.See this basic write-up on these matters. http://www.scyj.be/2008/09/sccm-2007-ad-schema-extensions-with-extadschexe/Regards,Akin
November 2nd, 2008 6:08pm

Simple answer is no. Configuration Manager does not use an explicit service account. Its services run as local system and all default communication use local system locally or the computer account of the system for network communication. Schema Admin rights are only required to extend the AD schema once in a forest as the schema extension is forest wide.Zulqarnain Ali | MCTS, MCSA | Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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July 25th, 2011 1:47pm

Hopefully an easy question. Does the SCCM service account need to be a member of Schema Admins after installation? Thanks Did you mean does it need permissions to write to the System Management container in Active Directory or are you talking about the one time Active Directory extension to support the product? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633169.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633121.aspx
July 25th, 2011 2:36pm

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