Excellent advice Brian. Particularly liked the point about removing BuiltIn\Administrators - we find that the vast majority of our problems over the last six months have been caused by knowledgeable sysadmins 'playing' around in SQL Server without realising the consequences of their actions. Gives backing to the idea that it's those within that are at least as great a threat as those outside.

Edited by - jonreade on 04/04/2003 03:18:22 AM