Changing service accounts and handling password resets

powerpivotgeek — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:29:00 +0000

While this is technically a pure SharePoint posting, we have found it useful in our labs. We have password resets all of the time and this cheat sheet was developed to make it as painless as possible. I hope you find it as useful as we do.

Step 1: Start Services.msc

For each service using the machine account, update the password and start the service

Step 2: Start IIS Manager. Under Application Pools, select each of the app pools that use the account that you are changing:

Click Advanced Settings
Click Identity
Set the username and password
iisreset

Step 3: Start SharePoint Central Admin, click on Security

Select ‘Configure Managed Accounts’
Edit the account
Enter ‘Existing Password’

Step 4: If RS is installed, start ‘Reporting Services Configuration Manager’

Select ‘Database’
Select ‘Change Credentials’, click ‘Next’ to get to the Credentials page
Enter new password
Take the defaults of the rest of the pages and finish the wizard

And for more details, look in BOL under: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210642%28SQL.105%29.aspx

Updated: 21-Dec-2009 –> note that you also might have to update the PowerPivotUnattendedAccount if you have done a NEW FARM installation. In NEW FARM, we create this account in Secure Store and assign it the Farm administrator’s username and password. If that is the password that has changed, then you will likely also have to go into the PowerPivotUnattendedAccount application in Secure Store and enter a new password.

Updated: 14-Jun-2010 –> depending on your configuration you might also have to change the password for the SQL RDBMS, AS instances or auxiliary processes such as SQL Agent. (I just got burned on this today when I had a password change, ran through this list of items to update and forgot SQL Agent and the RDBMS).

Enjoy.

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Changing service accounts and handling password resets