SharePoint 2013 configuration wizard giving invalid sid error?

Question

Well I :

Installed windows server 2008 R2 SP1 on vmware Virtual machine stand alone not in any domain

Installed SP 2013 Pre-requisites Installed SP 2013 succefully

running the configuration wizard after few steps i get this error

System.ArgumentException was thrown. Additional exception information: The SDDL string contains an invalid sid or a sid that cannot be translated.

found out that there could be a solution for this on http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointitpropreview/thread/62704a0b-abf6-4b59-a7d5-c68d1e652fc2

but that is now taking to page not found

plz help

Answer 1

as you are installing as standalone, service running under Network Service account in workgroup environment is not supported.

check these two blogs and fix the issue.

http://kancharla-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2012/07/service-running-under-network-service.html http://kancharla-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-sddl-string-contains-invalid-sid-or.html

Answer 2

This forum article helped me but I have to substitute for the missing "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data\Office Server" - C:\Program Files\Windows SharePoint Services\15.0\Data\Analytics_{some guid}

Hi All,

Recently an issue was reported to me where some of my site admins were facing an issue in setting up a SharePoint 2013 stand alone environment. They were facing this error in the step 8 of SharePoint configuration wizard "The SDDL string contains an invalid sid or a sid that cannot be translated".

After spending significant amount of time this issue was finally resolved in this way:

1. Add the account you want to use for search service in WSS_Admin_WPG group. If you are going to use built in administrator account this should be present by default.
2. Then execute this command from sharepoint powershell console: $SearchService = Get-Credential Domain\UserName in our scenario of standalone installation the Domain should be the machine name.
3. Then execute this command New-SPManagedAccount -Credential $SearchService
4. Now Go to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data\Office Server" and find the folder that starts with Analytics with a postfix guid.
5. Right-click --> Properties-->Sharing-->Advanced Sharing
6. Check the "Share this folder' check box and click on Permissions
7. Add the Search Service account created in step 2 and select Full Control. Do the same for WSS_ADMIN_WPG
8. Run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard again. It should now complete successfully.

Rahul Rashu