Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server :: Need some help with Sharpoint portal server 2003


	Need some help with Sharpoint portal server 2003 I am very new to Sharepoint portal server. We are trying to install the portal server with SQL Server 2005 which resides on a seperate server. During the SPS2003 installation the setup wizard asks for a "Valid Microsoft Windows Account" Which state that it will be the configuration database admin account. We had specified SQL authentication in the services 2.0 install but I believe this is asking for a windows authentication account. Does SPS2003 require windows authentication to the SQL Server DB? Any help is greatly appreciated Hi, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is supported only on servers that are members of a domain. Installing and operating SharePoint Portal Server 2003 in a workgroup environment is not supported. You must be local admin on SPS 2003 server to install. To install with SQL the DB admin account must be member of local admin or power user, be assigned dbcreator and security admin role and be a domain account if there is more than one server in the farm.. I can recommend you to use a dedicated windows service account for SQL! Hope this helps you! /Daniel Bugday "Batch" <B@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:50DEAD3F-51A1-4683-8EDA-3B617B026567@microsoft.com... - Hide quoted text - >I am very new to Sharepoint portal server. We are trying to install the > portal server with SQL Server 2005 which resides on a seperate server. > During the SPS2003 installation the setup wizard asks for a "Valid > Microsoft > Windows Account" Which state that it will be the configuration database > admin account. > We had specified SQL authentication in the services 2.0 install but I > believe this is asking for a windows authentication account. > Does SPS2003 require windows authentication to the SQL Server DB? > Any help is greatly appreciated