Recreate BUILTIN\Administrators - SQL Server 2005

Recreate BUILTIN\Administrators - SQL Server 2005

If you have deleted the BUILTIN\Administrators account you can use the following TSQL to recreate the account again.

n.b. You will need to be a member of sysadmin to grant the permissions.

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

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