From: Russ SBITS.Biz [SBS-MVP] on
What Brian is saying is
Login as Domain Administrator on the SBS2008 Server
Start the SQL tool by doing a "RUN AS Administrator"
Then you will have the permissions and can change things
Russ

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"Brian Cryer" <not.here(a)localhost> wrote in message
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> "Marc" <marcharms(a)invalid.com> wrote in message
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>> Could you describe how? I enabled the administrator in Acive dir users
>> and computers, but i get the same error.
>
> Have you logged in using the administrator account and then tried?
> This isn't the same as running-as-administrator.
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From: Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP] on
Can anyone explain how the Marc could have logged on to the server as anything
*other* than an administrator, given that there is no indication that he
created users that could have logged on the the server that are not administrators?

Marc: The account we used to know and love, the built in Administrator account
is inactive in Server 2008, and therefore SBS 2008. The account you created
when you installed your SBS assumes that role. True, other accounts given
Admin rights *may* not have all the authority of the account created on install,
but we have yet to see that issue in SBS 2008.

Therefore, unless you did something really out of bounds, the account you
created when you installed SBS is "the administrator" The built in account
is not needed. While logged on at the console as that id, right click and
"run as administrator", and if that does not work, let us know.


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From: Brian Cryer on

"Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP]" <lstruckmeyer(a)mis-wizards.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone explain how the Marc could have logged on to the server as
> anything *other* than an administrator, given that there is no indication
> that he created users that could have logged on the the server that are
> not administrators?

The key thing here is not as "an administrator" but as "the administrator"
.... but having looked into it (see below), I agree with you.

> Marc: The account we used to know and love, the built in Administrator
> account is inactive in Server 2008, and therefore SBS 2008. The account
> you created when you installed your SBS assumes that role. True, other
> accounts given Admin rights *may* not have all the authority of the
> account created on install, but we have yet to see that issue in SBS 2008.
> Therefore, unless you did something really out of bounds, the account you
> created when you installed SBS is "the administrator" The built in
> account is not needed. While logged on at the console as that id, right
> click and "run as administrator", and if that does not work, let us know.


The SBS server I'm using is 2008 but it was an upgrade from 2003, so I may
have some old hang-overs. That said, on my system I can connect using
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express to SBSMONITORING or
\\.\pipe\mssql$microsoft##ssee\sql\query. Looking at the set-up, for
SBSMONITORING it looks like anyone who is a member of the Builtin/USERS
group can connect. For \\.\pipe\mssql$microsoft##ssee\sql\query (which is
what I think the OP is interested in), its BUILTIN\Administrators which
includes domain admins and the good old Administrator account (I knew I got
it from somewhere). On a clean build (not upgrade) that might be the account
you initially set up - don't know. So yes, on the face of it anyone who is a
member of domain admins should be able to connect - but if the OP still
can't then I'd try reenabling the administator account and using that.

> -Please post the resolution to your issue so others may benefit.
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