I have about 10 service accounts for SharePoint 2013. Is there a good PowerShell script that I can use to change the password for all of these accounts? I have seen this http://www.mstechbits.com/sharepoint-2013/how-to-change-service-account-password-in-sharepoint-2013/ but this is manual and there is no way to do this efficiently for 20 SharePoint servers (prod, test, dev and QC).
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are those managed accounts?– Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦May 4, 2016 at 18:26
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You can try the below mentioned script on each farm.
$mc = Get-SPManagedAccount
foreach($acc in $mc)
{
Set-SPManagedAccount -Identity $acc -ExistingPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString “pass@word2” -AsPlainText -force) –confirm
}
But drawback is all accounts will have the same password.check this technet for more options: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607617.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Another way is to schedule automatic password change at central admin.
answered May 4, 2016 at 18:32
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I am okay with the same password. will it change the password in Active Directory? May 4, 2016 at 18:33
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it will not, it will only update the SharePoint with password.– Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦May 4, 2016 at 18:34
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for that try to use -AutoGeneratePassword true also check this option SetNewPassword– Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦May 4, 2016 at 18:35
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Note that -AutoGeneratePassword will only work if the account does not have 'never expire password' and 'user cannot change password' set.– user6024May 4, 2016 at 18:38
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1This code works. Thanks all for the support and ideas. $cPassword= ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'Summer@2016' -AsPlainText -Force $nPassword= ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'Winter@2016' -AsPlainText -Force Set-ADAccountPassword -Identity testacct11 -OldPassword $cPassword -NewPassword $nPassword May 4, 2016 at 19:22