I am trying to perform a silent installation of SQL Server remotely. It fails with the below error. On investigation I found that the user account I am using to install SQL with do not have a profile configured on the server. When I login with the user once it completes successfully. Is there a way to automate user profile creation on the server? Or any workaround that do not require me to manually login to the server with the user account is appreciated.
Exception summary:
The following is an exception stack listing the exceptions in outermost to innermost order
Inner exceptions are being indented
Exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ChainerInfrastructureException
Message:
There was an error generating the XML document.
HResult : 0x84b10001
FacilityCode : 1201 (4b1)
ErrorCode : 1 (0001)
Data:
DisableWatson = true
Stack:
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.DataStoreService.SerializeObject(String rootPath, Object objectToSerialize, Boolean saveToCache)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.DataStoreService.FlushCache(Boolean removeAllCachedObj)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SetupExtension.DatastoreCacheFeatureConfigEventHandler.InConfigurationActionExecutionEventHandler(Object sender, FeatureConfigScenarioEventArgs eventArgs)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.NotificationHandler.Invoke(Object notification, Object[] objectArray)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.NotificationService.OnNotify(Object eventKey, Object notification, Object[] objectArray)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.ConfigExtension.ConfigFeatureActionListener.InConfigurationActionExecutionEventHandler(ActionKey key, TextWriter loggingStream)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionMetadata.NotifyInExecution(ActionKey actionRunning, TextWriter loggingStream)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.InvokeAction(WorkflowObject metabase, TextWriter statusStream)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.PendingActions.InvokeActions(WorkflowObject metaDb, TextWriter loggingStream)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionEngine.RunActionQueue()
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.TimingConfigAction.Execute(String actionId, TextWriter errorStream)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.ExecuteActionHelper(TextWriter statusStream, ISequencedAction actionToRun, ServiceContainer context)
Inner exception type: System.InvalidOperationException
Message:
There was an error generating the XML document.
HResult : 0x80131509
Stack:
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Serialize(XmlWriter xmlWriter, Object o, XmlSerializerNamespaces namespaces, String encodingStyle, String id)
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Serialize(TextWriter textWriter, Object o, XmlSerializerNamespaces namespaces)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.DataStoreService.SerializeObject(String rootPath, Object objectToSerialize, Boolean saveToCache)
Inner exception type: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException
Message:
The data protection operation was unsuccessful. This may have been caused by not having the user profile loaded for the current thread's user context, which may be the case when the thread is impersonating.
HResult : 0x80131430
Stack:
at System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.Protect(Byte[] userData, Byte[] optionalEntropy, DataProtectionScope scope)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Common.SqlSecureString.WriteXml(XmlWriter writer)
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializationWriter.WriteSerializable(IXmlSerializable serializable, String name, String ns, Boolean isNullable, Boolean wrapped)
at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterSqlEngineSetupPublic.Write7_SqlEngineSetupPublic(String n, String ns, SqlEngineSetupPublic o, Boolean isNullable, Boolean needType)
at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterSqlEngineSetupPublic.Write8_SqlEngineSetupPublic(Object o)