The specified user “username” is a local account. Local accounts should only be used in standalone mode

In this article, we will see a solution for the error The specified user “username” is a local account. Local accounts should only be used in standalone mode. This error comes while installing SharePoint 2010/2013/2016.

The error comes because when you are installing SharePoint 2010/2013/2016 or SharePoint 2019, you need a domain account. It should be an active directory domain account.

The specified user “username” is a local account. Local accounts should only be used in standalone mode

To solve this make sure you have the domain account like SP\Bijay

• Canceled the configuration wizard.
• Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell. [Go to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products and SharePoint 2010 Management Shell]
• Run New-SPConfigurationDatabase command in the PowerShell command window.
• Entered SharePoint_ConfigDB for the DatabaseName.
• Entered the Database server name.
• Entered the username and password for the Database Access Account into the dialog.
• Entered a valid passphrase.

After that once again start the configuration wizard and it will not give any error.

Solution: The specified user “username” is a local account

If the above solution did not work, then you can use SPConfigurationDatabase command to create the configuration database.

New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName SharePoint_ConfigDB -DatabaseServer [ServerName] -AdministrationContentDatabaseName SharePoint_ContentDB -Passphrase (ConvertTo-SecureString [password] -AsPlaintext -Force) -FarmCredentials (Get-Credential) -localserverrole SingleServerFarm

The above solution you can try in SharePoint 2016/2019.

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I hope this SharePoint tutorial helps to solve The specified user “username” is a local account. Local accounts should only be used in standalone mode error in SharePoint.