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I did what you suggested and gave the appropriate permissions on the ms sql installation directory and also to the related registry keys. I used procmon when trying to bring the services up under the new service account and it never reported any type of errors or &quot;access denied&quot;. It just times out, windows reports that the a response was not received with the expected amount of time. 
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I did what you suggested and gave the appropriate permissions on the ms sql installation directory and also to the related registry keys. I used procmon when trying to bring the services up under the new service account and it never reported any type of errors or "access denied". It just times out, windows reports that the a response was not received with the expected amount of time.

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The only thing that worked after making the changes you and other articles I've found suggested was to make the service account a local administrator account. 
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The only thing that worked after making the changes you and other articles I've found suggested was to make the service account a local administrator account.

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OS is Win2k3.<br />
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I added the user to the list in the &quot;Allowed to logon as service&quot; Policy on the server in question but when I changed the credentials and restarted the services it threw me an error saying access denied. 
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OS is Win2k3.

I added the user to the list in the "Allowed to logon as service" Policy on the server in question but when I changed the credentials and restarted the services it threw me an error saying access denied. 

Need to change MSSQL service accounts to run as a different user

Microsoft SQL Server is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.SQL Server is available in multiple versions, typically identified by release year, and versions are subdivided into editions to distinguish between product functionality. Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning.

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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).