Setting up domain accounts for SQL Server services.

• Duran

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  January 7, 2008 at 4:00 am

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  Hello, I am a bit mystified when it comes to setting up Domain accounts to run SQL Server 2005 on.

  I willl be installing SQL at work soon, but I was installing it at home and during install I selected the local system account thinking I can change the account it runs on afterwards.

  So after installation, patching etc I created an account and added it to the users group created by SQL during install, but the service would not restart. A quick search on google didnt yeild anything useful, so I was hoping somebody could point out what it is I must be missing.

  I thought that having been placed in the correct group the account would inherit everything it needed to run SQL server.

  Regards,

  D.

• Johan Bijnens

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  January 7, 2008 at 5:03 am

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  If you alter the service account using "SQL Server Configuration Manager" it sets the needed rights for you.

  Check "Service Account" in books online.

  ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/instsql9/html/7f123fdd-95a6-4455-97a9-74d15f08144c.htm

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