Establish a Service Account for the Application

We recommend establishing a service account (e.g., “SVC_XFRACAS”) that the XFRACAS website will run as on the web server (for IIS, accessing files on the server, the DIU service, etc.).

If the ReliaSoft database is on SQL Server, this account will also be used to connect to the database and must meet the following requirements:

• It must be an Active Directory account (if the application is running on a different machine from SQL Server).
• Ideally, it should have a password that does not expire (recommended).
• If the database is on SQL Server, a user should be assigned to a public server role, with at least the XFRACASService (starting in Version 2024), db_datareader and db_datawriter roles for the ReliaSoft database. (If the database does not yet exist, you will need to add the roles via SQL Server after you create it. See Create the ReliaSoft Database.)