Hi all,

No BUILTIN\ADMINISTRATORS has not been removed or altered :>

We aquired a new box to replace an existing server that was out of warranty.
Working with the developers we have gradually moved all the databases from
the old box to the new box and everything was working fine.

Until . . . .

I noticed that there were some Jobs in SQL Agent that were disabled. Talking
to the developer he realised that they were used by the Full text service on
one of our systems. No he hadn't copied the Catalogs. So we try and drop the
catalogs . . . No can do as they don't exist, and the drive structure is
different between the boxes. So I copy over all the Catalog files, into the
same directory structure as on the old box, and then edited the
sysFullTextCatalogs table (DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!) and restared SQL server
Service.

Whenever we try and do anything sp_fulltext_database 'enable', Or use
Enterprise Manager to Drop the catalogs, or the Full Text Wizard to create a
new catalog in a different database we get the "Error 7635: The microsoft
Search Service cannot be administered under the present user account". The
"present user account" is a memeber of the sysadmins role, and also is the
SQL Service Startup account.

As I said earlier I haven't removed BUILTIN\ADMINISTRATORS, which has master
as its Default database, and is a member of sysadmin.

I have even done the workaround as described here

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;277549

as I might have broken FTS by changing the startup account via service
control panel (Although thats not something I usually do). All the googling
I've done has revealed that Its down to removing Builltin administrators,
which is something I usually do, but we decided that it was pointless on this
particular box as access to it is very tightly controlled.

This has really got me stumped ATM any ideas?