User Accounts Created by Microsoft Provisioning Framework

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Microsoft Provisioning Framework (MPF) creates two user accounts: the MPF service account (MPFServiceAcct) and the MPF client account (MPFClientAcct). For domain deployments, these accounts are installed in the Active Directory directory service. For local installations, these accounts are installed in the Microsoft Windows operating system as workgroup accounts.

MPFServiceAcct

MPFServiceAcct is the default account for provisioning servers. It has permissions to run provisioning engines, queue managers, and auditing and recovery managers.

Note

When you are setting the password for MPFServiceAcct during setup, the following important conditions apply:

  • If you ever change the password for the MPFServiceAcct, you will also be required to change the password for the provisioning engine COM+ application, Provisioning Queue Manager service, and Provisioning Auditing and Recovery service. If you do not do this, MPF will not function properly. Multiple forests with different provisioning engines should not use the same MPFServiceAcct password. If they do, MPF replicates objects across the forests. This is appropriate only if all domains use the same provisioning engine.

  • MPFServiceAcct is a member of the MPFServiceAccts and MPFTrustedUsers groups.

  • When a request uses basic authentication, Kerberos delegation, or has a procedure with an "execute as" credential, these credentials take precedence over MPFServiceAcct. In MPF deployments that perform security checking outside of MPF, you might find it useful to grant permissions to MPFServiceAcct so it can perform actions on external services.

MPFClientAcct

MPFClientAcct is only used to submit Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) requests to MPF through SOAP Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI). MPFClientAcct is a member of the MPFClientAccts group.

Note

  • When you are setting the password for MPFClientAcct during setup, if you change the password for the MPFClientAcct, you will also be required to change the password for SOAP ISAPI.

  • Accounts are created during MPF setup. If you have a setup failure, you must delete these accounts manually before you attempt setup again.