A caching service account is used for the Caching Service Configuration Provider. The caching service account must be a member of Administrators Groups and must have administrative access over caching configuration database. Windows Server AppFabric v1.0 used NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
as a default and did not allow changing this account for Domain environments.
Note
For a Workgroup environment, Windows Server AppFabric v1.0 allowed changing the account as long as the all participating machines in the cluster had the same user/password combination (with administrative privileges) defined.
In Windows Server AppFabric v1.0 we could not change the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
. This led to scenarios where domain level security principles could not be applied, and created security issues for IT Administrators.
The good news is that with AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server, we can now use the Domain accounts to run caching services.
In this recipe, we...