BPC System Admin ID

Question

Hi,
We are trying to install SAP BPC but we won't make it further than the Service Account page.
When trying to fill in the System Admin ID (and the other two IDs), the following message is given: "Invalid System Admin ID or Password".
The following is written in the SAP documentation:
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System Admin ID ‒ This ID is read-only and is the same as the installation user ID. This ID allows
access to code that provides system administrator-level functionality. For example, this ID can
write to the Windows registry, has full access to the FileShare server, and can create, remove,
backup, and restore OLAP and SQL databases. The system administrator should be a member of
the domain users group, local administrators group, and SQL administrators group.
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So how can verify that the System Admin ID 1) is member of the domain users group, 2) local administrators group and 3) SQL administrators group?
Thanks

Answer 1

Sam,
Here are some answers:
1) I*f you can log onto the server using the domain name, then you are a domain user. Also you can ask the company's IT department.
2) Right-click My Computer, select Manage. Expand Local Users & Groups, click the Groups folder, then double-click the Administrators group on the right. If you get any error message along the way, you are not a local administrator. If you can see the members of the administrators group, check to be sure that your sys admin id is part of the group. Do this on each server if multi-server.
3) The Sys admin need to be a SQL SA user. You can check this in SQL management studio under logins. If you are using SQL 2005 and the sys admin user is in the local administrators group, then there is a good chance you are a sys admin already because SQL 2005 automatically allows all users that are in the local administrators group to be SQL SA (however, IT personnel can always change this). SQL 2008 restricts SA users by default, so your ID would have to be added as an SA in that case.