Limiting users to user sql server

Hello there
When i started using sql server i choose Windows authentication.
Now i need to move to sql server authentication so that not anyone can have
full access to Enterprice manager or the query anlyser
In fact i don't want that the administrator on the Windows 2000 server would
be the administrator on the sql server
What i need to do for this?
any help would be usefulYou can remove the administrators group from being able to log into SQL
Server. There is no changing to SQL authentication, you would change to
mixed mode which allows SQL and Windows authentication. But it sounds like
you are just wanting to restrict people in the admin group from accessing
and that is done by removing the admin groups from SQL.
HTH
Ray Higdon MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA
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> Hello there
> When i started using sql server i choose Windows authentication.
> Now i need to move to sql server authentication so that not anyone can

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> full access to Enterprice manager or the query anlyser
> In fact i don't want that the administrator on the Windows 2000 server

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> be the administrator on the sql server
> What i need to do for this?
> any help would be useful
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|||Just remove the BUILTIN\Administrators login from SQL Server. But before
you do this make sure you know the sa password or have another NT account
that has sysadmin priviledge.
Rand
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