currently it is on "System account" (which is ... and infact I will be keeping SQL server and IIS behind the firewall and only using them to test on my local browser.

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL ... to a local system account, hopefully, that will do the job for you. Follow the steps mentioned below. Finally, check if the server starts.

Here's how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server. If you have several SQL Agent jobs on your system ... permissions necessary to execute local jobs that they do not own.