Does MTS User have to be a domain account on Tridion 2011 SP1?

Question

The docs recommend the MTS User is a domain account and installing the Content Manager server software on a machine that is in a Windows domain.

In an external hosting situation where I don't have access to the domain controller and I don't want to keep emailing support to create Windows accounts etc, can I just create the MTS User as a local user on the CM server?

Any gotchas?

Answer 1

Yes, you can create the MTSUser account on the local server. No gotchas or any issues. Don't forget to NOT add the user to the CMS or the impersonation users account.

Answer 2

There's no gotchas for a single CM server install, but if you have multiple CM servers connecting to the same DB, each local MTSUser would have to be manually added to the DB with the same settings as the original MTSUser.

For anything beyond a test / dev system, you'd want a domain MTSUser.