I administer a server which has an install of MS SQL Server 2005 Std on it. A little while ago I found out that I couldn't do Service Pack upgrades on the program. I tracked down the problem to the fact that the user accounts stored in the registry which are supposed to have permission to do upgrades are garbled.
I pulled the exact strings out and tried to run them against the DC to decode the account names, but they don't resolve to anything. I'm certain that if I could fix this issue everything would be fine, and I can resume updates to the software. As it is, I can't even uninstall it and reinstall it because my administrator account doesn't have permissions over the main install.
Has anybody encountered this before? Does anybody know of a way to ungarble the SIDs? The server operates well in all other respects.
