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Recommended Configuration: Running As a Service Under a Specific Windows Administrator

If you are running MOVEit Central as a service, and you want to access remote (or mapped) Windows file systems, you must run that service as a specific Windows administrator, not as LocalSystem. New installations of MOVEit Central are configured this way.

Note: Early installations of MOVEit Central set up the MOVEit Central service to run as LocalSystem. For instructions on how to convert from LocalSystem to a specific account, see Converting From MOVEit Central as a LocalSystem Service.

Authenticating to a Windows domain or Active Directory

If you want to authenticate MOVEit Central Admin (and MOVEit Central API) users to a Windows domain (or Active Directory), you might need to run MOVEit Central under a domain user account that is also an administrator on the local MOVEit Central machine. If you do not, you might see "RPC Server is unavailable" errors when your domain users attempt to authenticate to MOVEit Central.

Preferred: Run MOVEit Central as a domain user with local administrative permissions.

Not recommended: Run MOVEit Central as a full domain administrator.