Configuring SSP – Select appropriate accounts to use for each of the services listed

A.
Foundation Search Service: Can not be a built-in account such as a Local Service or Network
Service. Sharepoint Search content Access: Used to Crawl Help Content. Do not use an administrator
account or an account that can modify content. Search Service: Use a Windows Service Account.
Application Pool: Use an additional application pool identity account, Plan one application pool
account for each application pool you plan to implement.

B.
Foundation Search Service: Can be a built-in account such as a Local Service or Network Service.
Sharepoint Search content Access: Used to Crawl Help Content. use an administrator account or an
account that can modify content. Search Service: Do not use a Windows Service Account. Application
Pool: Use the same account for all application pools

C.
Foundation Search Service: Use built-in account Network Service only. Sharepoint Search content
Access: use an administrator account. Search Service: Do not ue a Windows Service Account.
Application Pool: Do not use an additional application pool identity account for each application pool
you plan to implement.

D.
Foundation Search Service: Network Service. Sharepoint Search content Access: administrator
account. Search Service: Windows Service Account. Application Pool: application pool identity
account.

Explanation:

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 search service accounts
The following table describes the accounts that are used for the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Search
Service account.SharePoint Server 2010 uses these accounts only for searching Help content in
response to user search queries. There is only one instance of the SharePoint Foundation 2010
Search Service in a farm.

Search Service
This is the Windows Service account for the SharePoint Server Search Service. This setting affects all
Search service applications in the farm. Must be a domain user account.
Additional application pool identity accounts
If you create additional application pools to host sites, plan for additional application pool identity
accounts. The following table describes the application pool identity account. Plan one application
pool account for each application pool you plan to implement.
Account Purpose – Application pool identity
The user account that the worker processes that service the application pool use as their process
identity. This account is used to access content databases associated with the Web applications that
reside in the application pool Resources: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445.aspx