Change service accounts from Domain Admin to local Admin SQL Cluster

Hi
We have some SQL Clusters in our enviroment, the previous administrator made user accounts for the sql cluster services, but he put these accounts in the Domain admins group, the security staff ask me to remove them from this group, but I don't know if this
would raise issues for the SQL cluster.
I thought would be better to put this accounts in the local Administrators group in every server's cluster and remove these accounts from the Domain Admins group, but we can not restart the server....
Is this possible? or is it neccesary to do another extra procedure?
Thanks in advance.
Doc MX

Hi
We have some SQL Clusters in our enviroment, the previous administrator made user accounts for the sql cluster services, but he put these accounts in the Domain admins group, the security staff ask me to remove them from this group, but I don't know if this
would raise issues for the SQL cluster.
I thought would be better to put this accounts in the local Administrators group in every server's cluster and remove these accounts from the Domain Admins group, but we can not restart the server....
Is this possible? or is it neccesary to do another extra procedure?
Thanks in advance.
Doc MX
Hello,
It is always recommended to run Cluster service with domain account having lest privileges.Running with local account can have issues like when SQL server restarts the account looses logon rights due to AD policy (have seen this issue many times) now suppose
by any cause SQL server stops at midnight it wont start as local account will loose privileges.So get a domain service account created below link will surely be helpful
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345578.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784325(v=ws.10).aspx
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