Is there any harm if i use the sharepoint farm account (managed account) to create site collections,lists, columns

Question

we have configured a new sharepoint 2013 on-premise farm.and i used the sharepoint farm account as the service account inside the configuration wizards.

Now i want to start creating site collections, lists, site columns, etc. so is there any harm if i use the sharepoint farm account (which is a managed account) to create site collections, lists, site columns, etc?

Thanks

Answer 1

When you create the site collection, you have two options either create via powershell or Central admin.

• for that you need a account which is part of farm admin group on the central admin, use that account login to the central admin and create a site collection(s)
• Now when you create a site collection during that process it will ask you the Primary and Secondary Site collection admin. You can give any user account.
• Once site collection created successfully, you login on that site with the account you mentioned during its creation. Now you can create lists and libraries under that site collection.

So this is the process, Now the question is, can i use farm admin as Site collection admin. Short Answer Yes. You can use any domain account for this.

But as a Best Practice, it is highly recommended dont use that account as it is running SharePoint critical process i.e Central admin, SharePoint timer service etc. if for some reason use lock the account, SharePoint will be go down.