I've been attempting to install SQL 08 R2 on my machine for a couple days now without any success. I keep running into this error:
The process does not possess the 'SeSecurityPrivilege' privilege which is required for this operation
I've researched all over the net on articles as far back as 2000 on this problem and understand how I am supposed to be able to enable this privilege in the Local Security Policy, but their are two problems:
1) I am part of the 'Domain Admins' group in our domain which is already assigned to the 'Manage auditing and security log' policy, so my account should already have the required security.
2) Even if I wanted to change the setup of that policy I can't because the Add/Remove buttons are disabled.
Also, when viewing the accounts with the 'Manage auditing and security log' policy there is a note stating that 'This setting is not compatible with computers running Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 or earlier. I assume this is why the ability to edit it is disabled, but this is a Windows 7 box and our Domain Controllers are running with Windows Server 2003 compatibility (saw mention in some article it could be related to DC versions) so I'm not sure why the note is even there.
I've run the SQL 2008 R2 installer as myself and as Administrator with the same results. I've ensured that I am included in all 3 required security policies; seBackupPrivilege, seDebugPrivilege and seSecurityPrivilege. These are documented in this KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2000257/en-us). In that article it refers to confirming your security privileges with the 'AccessChk' tool they link to, and I was not able to get that to work either.
This is a brand new install of Windows 7 Ultimate on a computer that was wiped clean this week (brand new hard drive).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I just completed my 4th failed SQL install attempt (install, uninstall, delete folders, reboot, repeat :)).
Marc
Marc Bellanger