Hello Everyone,
My Organization has three small Sharepoint 2010 Farms (DEV, QA & PROD) with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition(WFE) and SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise server(DB Server). However, we have only one Active Directory(AD) in our domain.
Also, we have a single server Sharepoint deployment as a POC environment. This POC environment is built up using a single service account that is my domain account and there are no managed accounts in it. User Profile Service Application uses the above AD for all user profiles including mysites.
Other three farms are built with least privilege service accounts: Setup(Admin), Farm and Sqladmin. All these farms have three service accounts in the AD such as Admin-D, Admin-Q & Admin and so on for all the service accounts except sqladmin. We also have dedicated managed account for each service application with three each.
Total goes to 12-15 service accounts for a single farm which takes to 35-45 for three farms on a single AD.
1) Can anyone please let me know one AD is fine for all these farms.
2) My main question is related to all these service accounts as our Security Administrator is not allowing so many accounts. So is there a way that we could minimize these accounts or can use one account for one set of service applications and another account
for another set of service applications.
Thank You,
Nilesh