MS SQLSever service accounts should not be members of the local
Administrator or Domain Admins groups. Is this also troug for SQL
Server Cluster?

Many Thanks

See the SQL 2000 section of:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;239885

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering

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Thats true. SQL Server and SQL Server Agent service accounts do not need to be a local administrator or domain administrator for Failover Clustering on Windows 2000
or 2003 server clusters.

Note: If the service account for SQL Server is not an administrator in a cluster, the administrative shares cannot be deleted on any nodes of the cluster. The administrative
shares must be available in a cluster for SQL Server to function.

Best Regards,

Uttam Parui
Microsoft Corporation

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