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Finding out what account was used to setup SharePoint

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• Added by Jeremy Thake, last edited by Jeremy Thake on Jan 18, 2010  (view change)
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Source: Woody Windischman - full explanation of how he got to finding this on post. I opened up a command prompt. Central administration is configured on a random port at setup, so first thing I did was look up the port that was in use with the command: stsadm -o getadminport Once I had that, I used the "enumusers" operation. Since the name of the server with Central Administration on it was "canon", the command (including the port found above) was: stsadm -o enumusers -url http://canon:8585 And there it was - a user explicitly granted permissions. It even had a reasonable id: "SPAdmin". Keep documentation on acccounts used in SharePoint The moral of the story is that you need to keep a log of the accounts you use in your SharePoint configuration. Labels parameters Labels installation installation Delete setup setup Delete security security Delete acccounts acccounts Delete Enter labels to add to this page:   Looking for a label? Just start typing.

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