To change Default Content Access
account, if the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers is
installed:
1. Open
SharePoint Central Administration site, click on your Shared Services Provider
(in the Quick Launch, in the Shared Services Administration group)
2. On
the Shared Services Administration page, in the Search section, click Search
Administration.
3. On
the Search Administration page, on the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section,
click Default content access account
4. On
the Default Content Access Account page, in the Account box, type the domain
and user name for the account (in the form DomainName\UserName)
5. In
the Password and Confirm Password boxes, type the password for the account.
6. Click
OK.
To change
Default Content Access account, if the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft
Office Servers is not installed:
1. Open
SharePoint Central Administration site, click on your Shared Services Provider
(in the Quick Launch, in the Shared Services Administration group)
2. On
the Shared Services Administration page, in the Search section, click Search
Settings.
3. On
the Configure Search Settings page, in the Crawl Settings section, click
Default content access account
4. On
the Default Content Access Account page, in the Account box, type the domain
and user name for the account (in the form DomainName\UserName)
5. In
the Password and Confirm Password boxes, type the password for the account.
6. Click
OK.
To change Shared
Service Provider Service Accounts, run:
stsadm
-o editssp -title SHAREDSERVICESPROVIDERNAME -ssplogin DOMAIN\USERNAME -ssppassword PASSWORD
You need to run this
command on every SharePoint server in your farm.
Ø Change Excel Services Account
To
change Excel Services Account:
1. Open
SharePoint Central Administration site, click on your Shared Services Provider
2. Click
edit Excel Services settings
3. Enter
username and password for the Excel Calculation Services account and then click
the OK button.
Ø Change Profile
Access account
1. Open
SharePoint Central Administration site, click on your Shared Services Provider
2. Click
User profiles and properties
3. Click
Configure profile import
4. Enter
username and password and then click the OK button
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Steps to change the account password at window level:
1)
Log-in to server with account
2)
Press Alt+Ctrl+End. It will go to Windows
security
3)
Click “Change Password” and
4)
Now Enter Old password, New password
and Confirm new password
5)
Click ok.
Steps to change the passwords for service accounts in
SharePoint Server 2007.
1. Update the password for the account that is
used by the Central Administration application pool. To do this, follow these
steps:
a.
On all servers in the
server farm, open a command prompt, type the following line, and then press
Enter:
cd %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web
server extensions\12\Bin
b.
Do one of the
following:
§ On the server that hosts the Central Administration website,
type the following line at the command prompt, and then press Enter:
stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword
§ On all other servers in the server farm, type
the following line at the command prompt, and then press Enter:
stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword -local
c.
Restart Internet
Information Services (IIS) 6.0. To do this, type the following line at the
command prompt, and then press Enter:
iisreset /noforce
2. Verify that the Administration Application
Pool Credential Deployment job definition is no longer displayed on the Timer
Job Definitions page of SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration. To do this,
follow these steps:
.
Open SharePoint 3.0
Central Administration, click Operations, and then click Timer
job definitions under Global Configuration.
a.
Verify that the
Administration Application Pool Credential Deployment job definition is no
longer displayed in the list.
Note If the Administration Application Pool Credential Deployment
job definition is displayed in the list, wait until it disappears from the
list.
3. Update the password for the application pool
account that is used by web applications on the server farm. To do this, type
the following line at a command prompt on every server on the server farm, and
then press Enter:
stsadm -o updateaccountpassword
-userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword -noadmin
4. Update the password for the account that is
used to run the Windows SharePoint Services Help Search service. To do this,
type the following line at a command prompt on every server on the server farm,
and then press Enter:
stsadm.exe -o spsearch
-farmserviceaccount DomainName\UserName -farmservicepassword NewPassword
5. Update the password for the default content
access account that is used by the Windows SharePoint Services Help Search
service. To do this, type the following line at a command prompt on every
server on the server farm, and then press Enter:
stsadm.exe -o spsearch
-farmcontentaccessaccount DomainName\UserName -farmcontentaccesspasswordNewPassword
6. If you are running SharePoint Server 2007, you
must also follow these steps:
.
Update the password
for the account that is used by every Shared Services Provider (SSP) on the
server farm. To do this, type the following line at a command prompt on every
server on the server farm, and then press Enter:
stsadm.exe -o editssp -title SharedServicesProviderName -ssplogin DomainName\UserName -ssppassword NewPassword
a.
Update the password
for the account that is used to run the Office SharePoint Server Search
service. To do this, type the following line at the command prompt, and then
press Enter:
stsadm.exe -o osearch
-farmserviceaccount DomainName\UserName -farmservicepasswordNewPassword
b.
If the server farm is
configured to use single sign-on, update the password for the account that is
used by the Microsoft Single Sign-On Service. To do this, follow these steps:
1.
Click Operations in
SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, and then click Service accounts under Security
Configuration.
2.
Under Windows
service, click Single Sign-On Service.
3.
Under Configurable,
specify the password, and then click OK.
c.
Update the password
for the default content access account that is used by the Office SharePoint
Server Search service. To do this, follow these steps:
0.
Open SharePoint 3.0
Central Administration, and then click the link to the SSP web application
under Shared Services Administration.
1.
Under Search,
click Search settings, and then click Default content
access account.
2.
Specify the password
to use for the content access account, and then click OK.
Warning:
Note:
