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scottpt
Posting Yak Master

186 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-18 : 08:57:16
What are these users? Can they be deleted?

{severname}\SQLServer2005MSSQLUser${severname}$MSSQLSERVER
{severname}\SQLServer2005SQLAgentUser${severname}$MSSQLSERVER
{severname}\SQLServer2005MSFTEUser${severname}$MSSQLSERVER

mr_mist
Grunnio

1870 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-19 : 05:15:58
They are groups not users no?

They are used by SQL Server to ensure that the relevant service accounts have suitable permissions. I guess you could remove them, but you'd need to manually make sure that the service accounts have suitable permissions.

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scottpt
Posting Yak Master

186 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-22 : 09:16:01
Just checking before I did that. Deleted those users and everything works fine.
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