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ISSUE:

Using built-in accounts like Network Service or Local System as application pool or as service identities is not supported in a farm configuration. The following services are currently running as built-in identities on one or more servers: OSearch15(Windows Service)

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INFORMATION:

All the search service accounts are set to the domain/sharepointsearch account and all four servers are showing the same account being used for the running windows service.

What would cause this error to continue to pop up with the correct account being used everywhere?

Is there a script I can run that would double check or force SharePoint to recognize that the correct account is in fact being used?

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  • account which is running the SharePoint Search service, is that registered in the Managed account in central admin > security > configure managed accounts?
    – Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦
    Apr 1, 2016 at 14:38
  • yes it is registered as a managed account
    – Ryan
    Apr 1, 2016 at 15:40
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    did you check under which account app pool of search is running, try to go Central Administration -> Manage Service Accounts >on this page select Search service and in the account drop down see which account is here...if local service then change it to your search account
    – Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦
    Apr 1, 2016 at 15:52

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This service is not configured to use your domain\sharepointsearch account by default and will run as a local account instead.

You can use the following PowerShell to set this account to the user account you want to use:

$service_user = "domain\sharepointsearch"
$service_password = (ConvertTo-SecureString -String "MyComplexPassword" -AsPlainText -force)
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService -ServiceAccount $service_user -ServicePassword $service_password
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  • This is the error I'm getting with that. The credentials are fine as I've added them to be a managed account and even logged in with them. Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService : The specified credentials are invalid.
    – Ryan
    Apr 1, 2016 at 14:20
  • Assuming you performed the lines above correctly, I would check the password, try opening up IE as that user in the server and see if it takes or gets denied.
    – Mike
    Apr 1, 2016 at 14:40

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