Installation guide

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4. Select the components and specify the component features that you want to install.
5. If prompted, specify one or more of the following parameters depending on your component
selection:
o Credentials for the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 component services. By default, the setup
program will create a dedicated user account for each service. See "Specifying credentials for
Acronis services (p. 11)".
o The names of Microsoft SQL servers to be used by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Management Server. See "Specifying Microsoft SQL servers (p. 12)".
o Whether to register Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows and/or Acronis Backup
& Recovery 10 Storage Node on the management server. See "Registering components on
the management server (p. 12)".
o The names of users who will be allowed to connect to the machine remotely. See "Specifying
users allowed to connect remotely (p. 13)".
The summary window displays the list of components that will be installed on the machine.
Note: In Windows, when canceling the installation process, only the last package is removed. Other
components, if any, remain installed.
1.5.3. Specifying credentials for Acronis services
The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management
Server, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node components run as services. When installing
any of these components, you need to specify the account under which the component's service will
run.
For each service, you can either create a dedicated user account (recommended in most cases) or
specify an existing account of a local or domain user—for example: .\LocalUser or
DomainName\DomainUser.
If you choose to create dedicated user accounts for the services, the setup program will create the
following user accounts:
• For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows service, Acronis Agent User
• For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server service, AMS User
• For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node service, ASN User
For security purposes, each of the newly created accounts will be assigned only the user rights that
are necessary to run the corresponding service:
• All three accounts are assigned the Log on as a service user right.
• The Acronis Agent User account is additionally assigned the Log on locally, Back up files and
directories, Restore files and directories, and Shut down the system user rights.
If you choose to specify an existing user account for the agent service, make sure that the account
has the user rights listed above.
The agent service additionally uses an auxiliary user account—by default, the newly created Acronis
Service User account (called "__acro_subst_user__" in the registry and in the list of users); you can
specify an existing user account instead. This auxiliary account is assigned the Log on as a service user
right and need not have any other user rights. In an Active Directory domain, we recommend using an
existing domain user account instead of the default account.