Windows 8 Treasure Hunt – The Series

November 14, 2012 / Kannan / 0 Comments

Windows 8 Pro has been like a treasure hunt to me. On regular use I find some interesting things which I didn’t knew they existed.

I am going to list the features I like most whenever I encounter them and list them here.

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Launching Windows control panel from run or command line

November 11, 2012 / Kannan / 0 Comments

With Window 8 Pro ditching the start menu Nope, people have to resort to the multiple steps to launch control panel.

If you are in desktop mode all you need to do to launch control panel is, do the following.

  1. Press Windows Key + R to launch “Run” dialog
  2. Type “control” and hit enter

There… the control panel is launched Happy

Setting password for Managed Account

November 3, 2012 / Kannan / 0 Comments

Password for Managed Account in SharePoint 2010 can be set in the following ways.

Set a new password for Managed Account

#If there is only one managed account, the following line could be written as: 
#$inputManagedAcct = Get-SPManagedAccount

$inputManagedAcct = Read-Host "Enter managed account as Domain\User"

#Input the desired new password
$inputPasswd = Read-Host "Enter new password for managed account" –AsSecureString 

#Change the password for the managed account to the new value Set-SPManagedAccount -Identity $inputManagedAcct -NewPassword $inputPasswd

To update the account password to a new automatically generated value, from the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following:

Set-SPManagedAccount –Identity domain\user -AutoGeneratePassword $true

Update the password for a Managed Account that has already been reset through Active Directory

If the password for a managed service account has been manually changed outside of SharePoint (such as directly in Active Directory), you can update the password to the new value in SharePoint 2010 as follows

#If there is only one managed account, the following line could be written as: 
#$inputManagedAcct = Get-SPManagedAccount

$inputManagedAcct = Read-Host "Enter managed account as Domain\User:" 
#Input the Managed Account $inputPasswd = Read-Host "Enter password from Active Directory for managed account:" –AsSecureString 

#Change the password in SharePoint for the managed account to the new value 
Set-SPManagedAccount -Identity $inputManagedAcct -ExistingPassword $inputPasswd –UseExistingPassword $true

To update the account password to a already changed password, from the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following:

Set-SPManagedAccount -Identity domain\user -UseExistingPassword

For more information look at http://blogs.technet.com/b/seanearp/archive/2011/01/25/updating-passwords-on-sharepoint-2010.aspx