Re: What are the necessary rights to install SQL Server?

From: Geoff N. Hiten (SQLCraftsman_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:22:11 -0500

The statement means membership in the local administrators group, either
directly or through group inheritance (I.E. Domain Admins). 

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"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> BOL has the following statement in the section Preparing to Install SQL
> Server 2000:
>
> Log on to the operating system under a user account that has local
> administrative permissions, or assign the appropriate permissions to the
> domain user account.
>
> What are the local administrative permissions needed or it simply means
that
> the user must be a member of local Administrators group?
>
> Thanks.

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