Monday, March 26, 2012

Rights needed for Surface Area Configuration tool?

Greetings.

Can a non-local admin run the Surface Area Configuration tool? Our dba wants to be able to use the tool, but is not a local admin on the SQL Server. Would we be able to assign a minimal set of rights to him without giving him full local admin?

Thanks.


Dale.

The SAC tool pretty much assumes that a local admin is setting up the configuration of the system. It uses WMI to access the services and it some cases needs to create a connection to the server within the contenct of the SQL Admin. If there is a standard setup you need for your SQL instances, you might consider having an administrator setup a configuration file and run it across your servers using the SAC command line utility.

Thank you,

Bill Ramos, Lead PM, SQL Manageability

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