i installed sharepoint advanced mode with standalone server configuration and iam using domain\username for evrything like for creating SSPs and web applications and sitecollection administrator iam just using only one account is it fine or will it create any problem in future Thanks in advance...... -Lahari

Microsoft recommend a long list of accounts (see the MS documentation). Using the server administrator isn't so bad (say for a test machine) but using domain\username for a SP system is very dangerous. What happens if your password expires; what happens if you leave the company; what happens when you are on holiday etc.FAQ sites: (SP 2010) http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com; (v3) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com and (WSS 2.0) http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com Complete Book Lists (incl. foreign language) on each site.

Functionally it will be fine, but there are some security concerns when using just one account. If you are not concerned with security for whatever reason (dev environment maybe?) then the only thing you may see are some extra search results, but those will even be security trimmed when you see the results assuming you use this as your crawl account as well. Here are some service account resources. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445.aspx http://www.shareesblog.com/?p=247

thanks for info actually it is a test-machine and we are trying sharepoint in one sysytem if it works well we are going to shift .so it is fine to use one account right? -lahari

Hi, As Mike and Chris said, Functionally it will work well. Hope this helps Thanks! Stanfford

thank youlahari