Jul 31, 2006 · Review some of your key SQL Servers to determine if the BUILTIN\Administrators Group has the default System Administrator rights in SQL Server. Talk with your team members about this security change and others to ensure these types of changes make sense in …

Mar 28, 2005 · register your server in Enterprise Manager using any login that has sysadmin privileges, like SA or the one that you created.

Feb 11, 2012 · If your processes or code depend on Windows BUILTIN\Administrator local group access, you must explicitly grant permission to log on to SQL Server. Accounts are no longer automatically granted access to SQL Server because of their membership in the Windows Administrator group.

Nov 18, 2013 · Find the account that is running SQL Agent (Right click SQL Server agent in enterprise manager and select properties). Then add this account as a SQL Server login using windows authentication and add it to the sysadmin fixed server role.

Mar 27, 2012 · If you are a local administrator on your machine, this blog post can help you use SQLCMD to get your account into the SQL Server sysadmin group without having to reinstall. It's a bit of a security hole in SQL Server, if you ask me, but it'll help you out in this case.

Nov 1, 2022 · The BUILTIN\Administrators group hasn’t been defined with sysadmin privileges for a very long time in SQL Server so either you’re working with an old version or someone has gone out of their way to add it as a login and added the server level permissions.

Mar 1, 2015 · Use ALTER SERVER ROLE sysadmin ADD MEMBER [BUILTIN\Administrators]; instead of sp_addsrvrolemember in SQL Server 2012 and later versions. The sp_addsrvrolemember proc was deprecated in in SQL Server 2012 in favor of DCL syntax.

May 1, 2020 · Working with a new SQL Server 2016 Express installation. I loaded SSMS and have Administrator access to the instance. The vendor supplied a database for a new app that has only a couple internal accounts for their app defined in the database's Security.

Dec 5, 2015 · In SQL Management Studio, create a new login and add it to the sysadmin server role. In SQL Management Studio, create a login connected to the Windows account or a group that it's a member of. You might well find BUILTIN\Administrators is already there.

Feb 3, 2010 · the builtin\administrators group is not required as a login in SQL server. If you want a specific login to have certain access within SQL server you must manually add that login and grant...