removing windows group that's a database user

When attempting to remove a windows group using the
stored procedure xp_dropuser obtain the following error:
Server: Msg 15008, Level 16, State 1, Procedure
sp_dropuser, Line 12
User 'D0550000\CSMBalanceInquiry' does not exist in the
current database.
D0550000 is the domain and CSMBalanceInquiry is the
windows group.
Before removing this group I execute sp_helpuser and do a
copy and paste of the name.
If I attempt to remove this group through the enterprise
manager, I do not have a problem. I tried to search in
the Microsoft knowledge base and could not find an
article explaining this problem. Thank you for your help
in advance.You need to specify the value returned from sp_helpuser for the "name" of
the user\group.
You can see the valid names in the database by running select * from
sysusers while in that database.
Thanks,
Kevin McDonnell
Microsoft Corporation
This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.|||is the group a role or a user? Note that sp_helpuser can return information
about roles as well as users...
If you think that might be the case try sp_droprole.
Richard Waymire, MCSE, MCDBA
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> When attempting to remove a windows group using the
> stored procedure xp_dropuser obtain the following error:
> Server: Msg 15008, Level 16, State 1, Procedure
> sp_dropuser, Line 12
> User 'D0550000\CSMBalanceInquiry' does not exist in the
> current database.
> D0550000 is the domain and CSMBalanceInquiry is the
> windows group.
> Before removing this group I execute sp_helpuser and do a
> copy and paste of the name.
> If I attempt to remove this group through the enterprise
> manager, I do not have a problem. I tried to search in
> the Microsoft knowledge base and could not find an
> article explaining this problem. Thank you for your help
> in advance.

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removing system administrators from fixed server role

Hello all,

On Analysis Services 2005 the members of the Administrators local group are also members of the fixed server role, therefore they have full control over Analysis Services databases.

I think this can be a problem becouse many system administrators don't need full control over AS. Does someone kwon how can I remove those high privileges to the local administrator?

Thank you.

Hernan.

In Management Studio right click on the server, select properties, turn on the "Show Advanced (All) Properties" option and scroll down to the bottom and set the "Security\BuiltInAdminsAreServerAdmins" property to false.|||

Thank you Darren, your post is very usefull.

Before create this thread I tried some searches in google, microsoft and BOL... I didn't get any importart results. I would like to known how you learned this.. maybe if you used a web serach... what words did you use?

|||Sorry, I can't remember. I am a bit of an SSAS junkie and it's just one of thost things I knew.

Removing Characters in Field grouping

Hello,

I am using the following expression to strip the last 11 characters in a field group and it returns an error saying that Len cannot use a negative number. It must be 0 or greater. Is there a better alternative?

Code Snippet

left(Fields!TestName.Value,len(Fields!TestName.Value)-11))

you can use Rtrim|||

Are you always removing 11 character regardless of the field length or do you simply want to restrict it to a certain size?

For example, the following code restricts the length to 5 characters:

=iif(len(rtrim(Fields!TestDATA.Value)) > 5, mid(rtrim(Fields!TestDATA.Value),1,5), rtrim(Fields!TESTDATA.Value))