Registry settings for service account permissions

We are trying to configure registry settings to allow sql server service to run on a service account in SQL Server 2005. The registry has changed quite a bit from SQL 2000, and we are missing a setting in the software keys that causes sql server service not to start. If we apply permissions to all of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE, then the service starts, however company security policies do not allow this. Are there any specific keys we should look at, other than the obvious Microsoft/Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft/MSSQL keys, in which we have already granted permissions to the service account?

Thanks,

Dave

Manually changing the service account is not a supported operation. Changing the service account should only be done via the SQL Server Configuration Manager tool. For further questions about this tool, you can use the SQL Server Tools General forum.

Thanks
Laurentiu

Registry Permissions for on demand pull subscription

To configure an on-demand pull subscription, the domain user account used by
the SQL Server Agent service must have full control permissions on the
registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server\80\Replication\Subscriptions. When I attempt to use the registry
editor to configure the permissions, the subscriptions portion of the key is
not present. I am running Win 2000 Server and SQL Server 2000. I am logged on
as an administrator, and I have sucessfully created a merge publication and a
push subcription. Any thoughts on what may be my problem? What SQL process
creates the subscriptions entry in the registery?
Tom McAvoy, MCP
The subscriptions portion of the key can be filled in by using reg files,
but the preferred way of doing it is having Windows Synchronization Manager,
or the ActiveX Controls make these changes.
When you create your push (only through the procs), or you pull (procs or
wizards), ensure you select on demand pull. This will register your
subscription and make the necessary registry entries.
If you did not do this, you will have to configure your pull subcription
withing WSM.
Hilary Cotter
Looking for a book on SQL Server replication?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
"Tom McAvoy" <TomMcAvoy@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7E02406B-F211-49F4-B1FD-41C2B6127F4A@.microsoft.com...
> To configure an on-demand pull subscription, the domain user account used
by
> the SQL Server Agent service must have full control permissions on the
> registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
> Server\80\Replication\Subscriptions. When I attempt to use the registry
> editor to configure the permissions, the subscriptions portion of the key
is
> not present. I am running Win 2000 Server and SQL Server 2000. I am logged
on
> as an administrator, and I have sucessfully created a merge publication
and a
> push subcription. Any thoughts on what may be my problem? What SQL process
> creates the subscriptions entry in the registery?
> --
> Tom McAvoy, MCP
|||Hillary, thank you for the response. I am unable to create the 'on-demand
pull' subscription due to the lack of permissions on the registry key. I
receive an 'access denied error'. I don't have the exact error info
avaialble right now. I'll review the problem on Monday and post more complete
error info.
"Hilary Cotter" wrote:

> The subscriptions portion of the key can be filled in by using reg files,
> but the preferred way of doing it is having Windows Synchronization Manager,
> or the ActiveX Controls make these changes.
> When you create your push (only through the procs), or you pull (procs or
> wizards), ensure you select on demand pull. This will register your
> subscription and make the necessary registry entries.
> If you did not do this, you will have to configure your pull subcription
> withing WSM.
> --
> Hilary Cotter
> Looking for a book on SQL Server replication?
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
>
> "Tom McAvoy" <TomMcAvoy@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7E02406B-F211-49F4-B1FD-41C2B6127F4A@.microsoft.com...
> by
> is
> on
> and a
>
>
|||It seems that you need to be a power user or admin on the machine you are
trying to pull the subscription to.
Also the account which is doing the pulling should be in the PAL.
"Tom McAvoy" <TomMcAvoy@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8518A10B-BFB3-4C4D-A6E4-8A605F129C22@.microsoft.com...
> Hillary, thank you for the response. I am unable to create the 'on-demand
> pull' subscription due to the lack of permissions on the registry key. I
> receive an 'access denied error'. I don't have the exact error info
> avaialble right now. I'll review the problem on Monday and post more
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> error info.
> "Hilary Cotter" wrote:
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