Re: SPS2003 on DC

From: Nigel Bridport [MSFT] (nigelbri_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:20:58 +0100

If the account is a member of the Local Administrators group, then you will
not have a problem!

Yes, you can install SPS 2003 on a DC but be aware that you have to install
it with SQL not MSDE.

Nigel 

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"Zoltan Micskei" <micskeiz@freemail.hu> wrote in message
news:10c3d01c415cb$b3052620$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for the reply.
> >Personally, I don't install anything on a DC other thna
> >the OS.
> Unfortunatly I got only one box:(
>
> >Your only option now is to give SP a domain account to
> >use which increases security issues as that account
> >will have domain level permissions.
> I gave him a domain account, which is also member of the
> Server Admistrators domain group, but this was not good
> for him. He explicitly requested, that the user should be
> a member of the Power User, but there is no such group.
>
> Zoli
>

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