Changing SharePoint 2010’s Service Account Passwords
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=301 We’ve all seen it, it happens every day. A coworker gets mad, throws a burrito at the boss and the next thing you know they’re getting escorted out by security. If that person know your SharePoint service account passwords, and the burrito was big enough, your boss might want you to change them all to make sure the burrito-thrower doesn’t get into SharePoint and cause some problems. In this blog post I’ll walk through how to change all of the passwords in a SharePoint 2010 farm without it exploding in your face Wiley Coyote style. When writing this blog post I’m basing it on the accounts I suggest in my SharePoint 2010 Service Accounts blog post. If you didn’t follow that guide, your experience might be a little bit different. My intention with this guide is to allow you to change your passwords with as little trouble and user downtime as absolutely possible. I recently walked through all of these steps on a...