Creating or Re-Creating Managed Accounts (w/ Powershell)
When creating a farm using powershell, you need to create the managed accounts that your service applications will use. Here’s a script written by Stephen Swinney, Rackspace Senior SharePoint Engineer that does just that!
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$Credentials = @() #Create User Variables $FarmUser = "Domain\SP_Farm" $ServcAppUser = "Domain\SP_SA_AP" $SiteAppUser = "Domain\SP_Site_AP" $SearchSvcUser = "Domain\SP_SearchSvc" #Create Password Variables $FarmPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "$*t6uxNM3AL4_*R4" -AsPlainText -Force $ServcAppPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "Htfa3S9^wZ6?CgmX" -AsPlainText -Force $SiteAppPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "Rt)4(97#kDum" -AsPlainText -Force $SearchSvcPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "2t+Z(tm2)NU6" -AsPlainText -Force #Create object & add to array $Credentials += New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $FarmUser, $FarmPass $Credentials += New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $ServcAppUser, $ServcAppPass $Credentials += New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $SiteAppUser, $SiteAppPass $Credentials += New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $SearchSvcUser, $SearchSvcPass #Loop through array and create managed accounts foreach ($Credential in $Credentials) { Write-Host "Creating new managed account:" $Credential.UserName -foregroundcolor cyan New-SPManagedAccount -Credential $Credential } #End Script Write-Host "All Managed Accounts Created" -foregroundcolor cyan |
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