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

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