Thursday 2 August 2012

How To Add Back The BUILTIN Administrators Group In SQL Server


While disabling if you had dropped the Built-in Administrator account from the SQL server. Please follow the steps to add back The [BUILTIN\Administrators] group back.

First try in Test box, before doing any changes in Production box. 
USE Master
Go
EXEC SP_Grantlogin 'BUILTIN\Administrators'
GO
EXEC SP_Defaultdb 'BUILTIN\Administrators', 'master'
GO
EXEC SP_Defaultlanguage 'BUILTIN\Administrators', 'us_english'
GO
EXEC SP_Addsrvrolemember 'BUILTIN\Administrators', 'sysadmin'
GO 

The other way as well you can add like below. 
USE Master
GO
CREATE LOGIN [BUILTIN\Administrators] 
FROM WINDOWS
WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master],
DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=[us_english]
GO

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