How to find out what service account is assigned to sharepoint services?

Question

In Sharepoint 2007, I would like to find out a particular service account whether it is used or not in any of the sharepoint services. I went through stsadm operations command but not unable find one - the only command is to list sharepoint services but
the list does not include service account. Any help?

Answer 1

There isn't specifically a single place to determine whether a service account is used. You can check the following places:
1. Services console (services.msc) on the server. Sort by Log On As and check if the account is used by any services.
2. In IIS Manager (inetmgr) expand the server, expand Application Pools. For each application pool right click and select properties. On the Identity tab note the service account.
3. In Central Administration go to Operations -> Service Accounts. One at a time, go through the Windows service (these should map to the same account you saw in the services console) and Web application pool (these should map to what you saw in IIS Manager)
4. For search service accounts, in Central Administration go to Operations -> Services on Server. On each server running the search service click on the Office SharePoint Server Search link (MOSS only) to show the Office search service account, and Windows
SharePoint Services Search (WSS and MOSS) link to show the WSS search service account and default content access account (crawl account). You can also view these accounts using stsadm -o osearch -action list and stsadm -o spsearch -action list
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