Is there a method to automate the changing of a service accounts for an installed SQL 2012 instance (default) and assigning the correct permissions to all locations without performing a complete uninstall and reinstall.
I had someone setup a new SQL instance and they accepted all the default accounts for the services. For a security best practice each service should be its own domain user account and should follow least privileges so i do not want to make it a local admin on the box.
I have found a link online that states what each service requires access to:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504.aspx
However manually setting this up on all accounts would take quite a while. I am hoping there is some wizard where I can provided the new user accounts for each service like when you first install the SQL instance and have it assign permissions automatically.
The install has to be on the default instance and a complete uninstall / reinstall will cause issues so i am trying to avoid that.