Yeah, quite funny... Seems to be a wrong forum chosen for this question...

Nevertheless, does anybody can share his or her knowledge and experience on my problem?

Or should I re-post...

You guys are talking about convinience, whereas I'm asking about security. 🙂

As it well known, these two are mutually exclusive. 🙂

I must adhere to the least-privileged-account practice. If it's possible...

Thank you for your replies.

So, the only summary is that use domain account for Agent service just for a case it ever could be usefull, isn't it? Are there any...

R.Hensbergen, thank you for your reply.

First, all the applications will be on the same domain as the system with SQL Server is. So only Windows Authentication will be used.

Second, by...

DNA, thank you for your reply.

SQL Server as an application will be used for the two purposes: 1) to serve management and monitoring systems like HP SIM, Dell OpenManage, MOM...

As far as I know, SQL Browser implements this functionality.

When a client needs a list of available SQL Server instances, it uses SQL Server Resolution Protocol on 1434/UDP to request...

A small addition to the previous post.

Regarding port 1433. Would you please explain what you mean?

I have 2 instances configured on static non-standard ports. These ports are open at the...

Thank you for the prompt reply.

I surely used netstat and TCPview as well as firewall log to determine the process. All that I could find was that 1) this process...

I have similar situation.

The problem is that the host with SQL Server has Windows Firewall configured. Ports 1434/UDP and the static ports associated with instances are opened in the firewall;...