The server farm account should not be used for other services for User Profile Synchronization Service in SharePoint 2010 Health Analyzer

The User Profile Sync service has to run under the Farm account. But doing this causes a error to appear in the SharePoint 2010 health analyzer.




I use a simple trick to prevent this error from showing in health analyzer without disabling the rule.

Go to Central Administration -> Security -> Configure Service accounts.

Select the User Profile Synchronization Service . You see that it is configured to use the Farm account.



Also the ForeFront Windows Services are running under the Farm account



Select a different managed account. Now click OK.



You will see that one of the ForeFront identity services under your Windows services is now configured to use the chosen account.



Now here is the trick. Go to Central Administration -> System Settings -> Services on server.  Stop the User Profile Sync service if is not stopped. Now start the service again.




As you can see we are now required to use the Farm account. Give the password and click OK. After a while the service will have the state started.
Now go to your Windows Services list. Search for the ForeFront Identity services. As you can see they are configured to use your farm account.



Now go to Central Administration -> Security -> Configure Service accounts. Select the User Profile Synchronization Service . And what do we see? SharePoint hasn’t changed the account
listed here.



Now reanalyze the error in Health Analyzer. The problem is gone.