SQL 2005 changed domains - reset security

[JordanCN2]

Our company purchased another company and created a temporary trust in Active Directory between Company A and Company B. The small Company B had just on server which was their DC and SQL 2005 server.

We just took down the Company B domain by using DCPROMO to remove this server as the last DC in the domain and joined it as a member server to Company A. The server has a number of account logons that are from the old domain that we cannot seen to get rid of. How do I get rid of the orphan accounts (COMPANYB\Domain Users, COMPANYB\Domain Admins) ?

 

[mrdenny]

They are listed as logins within SQL Server? Just blow them away. There shouldn't be anything stopping you. Unless those accounts own objects in databases you should be able to just delete them. SQL shouldn't be contacting the domain in order to delete them.

Do you actually have admin rights to the SQL Server instance?

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