• Assigning a default schema to a group is not possible in SQL Server until 2012. All previous versions (including 2008 R2) do not allow this.

    Granting permissions is a whole different story and it can be done.

    See here for details:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ikovalenko/archive/2007/01/27/workaround-for-unable-to-set-default-schema-for-a-group.aspx

    -- Gianluca Sartori