We have a server shared by two project teams. To tight the security, I want to remove BUILTINAdministrators off the public and sysadmin server roles. My question: any thing I should pay special attention ? I use LocalSystem to start all SQL Service. I know this is not a very good pratice yet I have no choice as our company network is a mixed of windows and novell, we do not have AD.
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After I removed the BuiltinAdministrators Group and changed the SQL Service Account from LocalSystem to my Window account this Openrowset query fail.
select a.*
from openrowset('MSOLAP',
'DATASOURCE=HODB02;Initial Catalog=POS_DM;', 'SELECT {[Measures].[SALE PRICE]} ON COLUMNS,
{[Item_Type].[Description].MEMBERS }ON ROWS
FROM [ONLINE SALES ANALYSIS]' ) as a
OLE DB provider "MSOLAP" for linked server "(null)" returned message "The following system error occurred: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. .".
Is that relate the teh Security Account Delegation?
Does anyone know who the builtinadministrators are by default in SQL Server 7 as part of the
system administrators.
Hi,
Are there any implications for removing this group from SQL Server logins?
We are trying to tighten up security and this is one area we want to focus on?
thanks
As default, the BUILTINAdministrators account is
created during the installation of SQL Server 7.0.
The default access is to have the account in
the System Administrators server role which gives
them dbo access to each database.
Since I don't want my network administrators to
have sa privleges within SQL but still want them
to be able to access the databases, I've removed
them from the System Administrators server role.
The SQL Server Login Properties window still shows
the account having access into each of the databases
as dbo, however they are unable to view or access
any objects within the databases.
Shouldn't the account still have permissions, just not
as sa? Can someone please explain this to me? I've checked
BOL and several of the reference books I have, but don't
find any detailed information on this account.
Thank you
Toni
Hi all,
I am using SQL 2k SP2 on Win 2K Advance server Cluster. My problem is how to remove builtinAdministrators login. Earlier when I tried it was doing failovers from one node to another and not stopping. I was not able to do anything. Any help is appriciated
thanks,
Minesh.
This message is in reference to a previously posted SLQ Server 7 question and answer regarding the BUILTINAdministrators account (dated 11/19/2001)
Original Question: I'm using Mix-Mode Authentication. Can I remove the Builtin/Administrator loggin ID
without cause any harm to my current Login ID user(Windows NT user)? Are will
removing Builtin/Administrator what harm will this cause to my server?
Answer to above: The first thing I do after installing SQL is remove the Builtin/Administrators account for
the SQL Server. Depending on how you set SQL up, this should not affect any NT
users, unless you granted them access to the server through the local Administrators
group. This is not the prefered way of granting access, however. This will give any
administrator on the machine access to all of the data, which you may not want,
depending on the confidentiality of the data.
Situation: (SQL Server using Mixed Mode Authentication).
If the Builtin/Administrators is disabled or deleted, and the server rebooted, SQL Server will be initiated but, the SQL Server Agent won't be.
Signing onto SQL Server as SA will not be able to restart SQL Agent nor will an NT user with administrator capability have any better luck
Question: What specifically in NT and SQL Server does one need to change to get around this situation.
The SQL Server documentation is not very helpful regarding the use of this login.
While attending a SQL 2000 Administrator course, two of my colleagues were told to always delete this account but were not given any reason or explained the consequence of this action.
We need to remove the BUILTINAdministrators from reporting services. I.T. personnel do not want to be able to see restricted reports. We have two department users that have been added as Content Managers and we are running reporting services under a created domain user account that we created and not a system service. I have removed BUILTINAdministrators from the Home folder and when I check, it comes right back. Do I need to deny access to BUILTINAdministrator on SQL Server 2005 itself? I would apprecate any suggestions.
be not carefully, i deleted the BUILTINAdministrators group, and the 'sa' acount is disabled.
now i can login in use the other acount, but can't assign the roles and alter the login 'sa' to enable, beacause i do not have the premission.
how do i do, pls help me.
Hello all,
does someone know where to find information regarding what is accesible to a BUILTINAdministrator which is not accesible to a System Administrator?
Somewhere I have read that a System Administrator can not see the "All users' folders (i.e. the collection of "My folder"s for all users of the Report Server) but I have also experienced a behaviour which has surprised me: as a System Administrator with all permissions I cann't even see folders that a BUILTINAdministrator can.
Does it mean that a System Administrator can not really manage all the resources of a Report Server?
Any ideas will be welcomed. Many thanks.
Hello all,
We recently moved our Team Foundation Server from one server to another, of course the reporting services was also included in that move.
On the new server, we are not able to change Reporting Services security parameters anymore, we get this error :
User or group « BUILTINAdministrators » not recognized. (rsUnknownUserName)
The old server was an english windows 2003, the new one a french version, i guess the problem is related. The BUILTINAdministrators group name on the new server is "BUILTINAdministrateurs".
Is there a way to change security params without getting this error ? How can we remove from Reporting Services this reference to BUILDTINAdministrators ? I've tried to modify the table Users directly in ReportServer DB without any success..
Please help !
Alexandre
SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003:
On our production db, the SA acct has been locked. I realize that I could enable mixed mode and then connect via an administrator -- but we are already running in mixed mode, and our BUILTINAdministrators account has sysadmin permissions turned off.
As it stands, the only user I can connect as does not have permission to modify any of the login info.
What recourse do I have at this point? Can I disable mixed-mode and re-enable it (via registry)? If so, will it reset the SA account or rebuild the BUILTINAdministrators login for me?
Or do I need to contact Microsoft, and if so is there anything they can do?
My os:
Window2000 + SQL Server 2000 Enterprise
User BUILTINAdministrators was delete. I can't use SQL Enterprise Manager.
Thank you.
I need to remove full admin privs from the builtinadministrator's group in report manager.
I tried removing the builtinadmin role from report manager and SQL Server, I removed it from the Site Settings area and from each individual folder's permissions.
Yet all the members of that group still have full run of the report server...
I even made a new folder that ONLY I am listed as having permissions to, yet they can see that as well...???
Suggestions?
Hi,
Can any 1 guide me how to completely remove SQL 2005 ?
Currrently i have a problem to install SQL 2005 where before this i already install SQL 2005 and uninstall it and delete some of the file inside the SQL folder, after that i reinstall the SQL 2005 and it get many error while installing.
Can some 1 guide me how to unintall it completely?
PS: im using Vista
I have SQL 2005 June CTP installed and running. I previously had VS 2005 CTP installed as well. I removed VS with the beta removal tool and installed the release version. I am now trying to remove SQL and cannot do it.
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I have a big problem with Reporting Services 2005 working on Windows 2003 Server.
RS work as Network service, on subdomain reporting.mydomain with SSL wildcard certificate *.mydomain,
Anonymous access: disabled and basic authentication: enabled
ReportManager and reportServer has defualt virtual folders (/reporting, /reportserver)
My problem is:
1) I can't manage security roles and site settings with report maanger. when I try assign roles to new user or group I get followng error:
"The user or group name 'BUILTINAdministrators' is not recognized. (rsUnknownUserName) Get Online Help"
when i try to execute reports in report manager, parameters controls are not displayed correctly (very simple text boxes) and I can see:
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other functionality are working fine i.e upload new files, creatign folders....
2) Also my reportserver virtual folder does not work correctly.
When I navigate to mydomain/reportserver I can see content of this virtual folder, than when I navigate to ReportService.soap i can see normal ReportServer view
reporting.mydomain - /Reportserver/
[To Parent Directory]
Montag, 10. April 2006 16:31 <dir> bin
Dienstag, 6. September 2005 01:12 488278 Catalog.sql
Dienstag, 6. September 2005 01:12 14738 CatalogTempDB.sql
Freitag, 21. April 2006 19:45 10555 Copy of rsreportserver.config
Freitag, 14. April 2006 17:29 76 global.asax
Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 01:12 26582 ModelGenerationRules.smgl
Montag, 10. April 2006 16:31 <dir> Pages
Montag, 10. April 2006 16:31 <dir> ReportBuilder
Montag, 13. Juni 2005 14:07 143 ReportExecution2005.asmx
Montag, 13. Juni 2005 14:06 196337 ReportingServices.wsdl
Montag, 13. Juni 2005 14:07 131 ReportService.asmx
Montag, 13. Juni 2005 14:07 131 ReportService.soap
Montag, 13. Juni 2005 14:07 139 ReportService2005.asmx
Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 20:01 10580 rsreportserver.config
Montag, 13. Juni 2005 14:07 11845 rssrvpolicy.config
Montag, 10. April 2006 16:31 <dir> Styles
Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 01:09 2673 web.config
but me reports are not displayed correctly, I can run reports but top bar with parameters, export and print function are not displayed in correct format.
(simple textboxes, and icons)
reporting.mydomain/ReportServer - /
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Version 9.00.1399.00
I think it is security issue. What schould i do to solve this problems?
Wojtek
I need help for completely removing sql server 2005 from my computer.
I have tried unintalling it through Add/Remove programs,but when i try to reinstall it this message appears :
"Some components of this edition of SQL Server are not supported on this operating system. For details, see 'Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005' in Microsoft SQL Server Books Online."
I think that there is something that is not completely removed from the first installation.
I NEED HELP! Does anyone know how to remove a database schema from SQL Server 2005 using C#? I have a web application that deletes users. In SQL2k, I am able to simply delete the users. In SQL2005, I must delete or alter the schema BEFORE I can delete the users. Of course, the query below works, but how can I get this to work in code for a web application?
USE EAST_USERS
DROP SCHEMA "plijsmith"
Thanks
I have 2008 installed and have 'smoke tested' it (tried it on the several projects and don't appear to have any show stopper type issues). Anyways, I'd really like to remove VS 2005 if at all possible. My concern is what effect removing that is going to have one the following other installs:
SQL Server 2005 Express
SQL Management Studio (Enterprise NOT Express)
.NET Framework v2.0
If anyone can weight in on the effect uninstalling 2005 is going to have, or ways to 'safely' uninstall it without affecting any of the other installs, please let me know...
Thanks,
I am trying to configure a maintenance plan in SQL 2005 to do a full backup every day and to do log file backups every hour.
What I want to do is to keep 3 days worth of full backups and 24 hours of log backups and remove all the backups older that this from the server so that I do not use all of my disk space. I will then backup these files to tape so that I have a good backup history.
In SQL 2000 there was a simple option to remove backup files older than a given time frame. Is there an option to do this in 2005? If not can you suggest a way that I can do this.
I have some problem locating the program to remove/add cals in SQL 2005
standard, previously for SQL 2000 there is a program in the
controlpanel to do that. But for SQL 2005, I can't find any, can anyone
advice?
Hi all,
I tried to remove AdventureWorksDB in the "Add or Remove Programs" of Contol Panel and I got the following errors: (1) AdventureWorksDB Error 1326: Error getting file security: CProgram FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL1MSSQLGetLastError: 5. |OK| and (2) Add or Remove Programs Fatal Error during installation (after I clicked the |OK| button). Please help and tell me how I can solve this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Chang
I have uninstalled the CTP version of the SQL Server express so that I can install the released version but CTP version is still listed in the add/remove program list but without the change/remove button. I have been to different sites to find information on cleaning this up and I have ran all the uninstall tool I can find but the problem still prevails. I cannot install the released version without completely getting rid of the CTP version. Please help anyone.
Thanks
deebeez1
it's been a while since i installed sql2005, but doesn't visual studio get installed at the same time? all the servers that i installed sql2005 on have visual studio on them too. the sysadmins think having VS on the servers is a security risk and want to remove it. if we remove VS from the servers, will that impact SQL Server 2005?
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Is
"Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile [ENU] Developer Tools"
equal to
"Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition"?
If not, what is it?
I have Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit installed but there is something from with the installation since every time that I try and create a Report Server Project It gives me error
Could not load file or assembly "Microsoft.ReportingServices.Designer, Version 9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannopt find the file spesified.
How can I reinstall it or repair the installation so it will work. I have uninstalled every SQL2000 component in Add Remove Programs and reinstalled them. The problem is however that I cannot see an entry for "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit" in the Add Remove programs in Windows XP Profesional.
Can someone please help me. Maybe tell me where the uninstall file is located on disk??
Any help will be great
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In one of the column which i import , all records have the
This means the enter button on that line... how to replace or remove
Eg ::
Month @ 7:30 p.m. Location: ass nue Westmont