fhanlon (10/9/2007)
I have removed the builtin account on my clusters and it works. The cluster account must be made sysadmin as is the account the runs SQL and SQL Agent
The Microsoft guidance on this has changed. The cluster account must be able to login but it doesn't need to be a member of the sysadmin fixed server role:
How to impede Windows NT administrators from administering a clustered instance of SQL Server (SQL Server 7.0 and 2000)[/url]
Before Installing Failover Clustering (SQL Server 2005) - See section Configure Microsoft Cluster Service.
K. Brian Kelley
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