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Brandon: Hmm - nothing springs to mind, except for possibly checking the Services registry keys.. Sorry

GS: If you want, send me your scripts and I'll try and help you investigate (andyn at installaware dot com).

Andy,

No worries. At this point I'm really questioning the wisdom of creating the database in a non-standard folder, especially considering the security restrictions around the NetworkService account. Such is the reality of a post-SP2 world.

Thanks again for your help!

I know what you mean

To be honest, SP2, Vista and all the other stuff MS have pushed out recently are really making security a major headache for a lot of applications.
However, it can only really be a good thing; up until now there has been far too many security loopholes caused by sloppy code and permissions

Now a days, it's usually better to let the app in question deal with placement - any Admin who requires the files to be elsewhere will have changed the configuration to cater for it.

For posterity... this post documents a SQLACCOUNT command line argument that can be used to specify during install of SQL Server 2005 which account it will run under.

This won't help determine or change the account for an existing SQL Server, but you can specify the account for a new instance installed with IA using Install SQL Express.

Hi Brandon,

Thanks for that bit of info; I'll see if we can update our plugin to expose this option.