Saturday, November 02, 2013

SharePoint 2013 Password out of sync with Active Directory Password error

This works for SP 2010 and SP 2013 - let's say someone reset your SharePoint service account password in Active Directory and you are not letting SP 2013 manage your passwords as Managed Accounts. Let's say they also changed your Search service account and SQL service account passwords as well. Yeah, this happened to me. So you ask them for the new password. Then type it in as follows in Powershell:

PS C:\Users\Administrator> stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DC07\SQLSvc -password mycoolpassword23!
Operation completed successfully.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DC07\SPFarm -password mycoolpassword23!
Operation completed successfully.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DC07\SPSearch -password mycoolpassword23!
Operation completed successfully.
PS C:\Users\Administrator>