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Changing service account password on multiple computers in the service filed

I am trying to change all the passwords on multiple 2008 r2 servers but I get errors and I am not good at this please help..

maybe something that reads a test file and then changes the Service password on each server and have a text input to revile success on each server or fail.

I am using PowerShell and here is my example.

icm $Servertest { /StartMode=Automatic /account=user /username=Server1 Service/password=XXXXXXXXXX}

Will Szymkowski

Is this service account password a local account on the machines itself? Or do you have an AD account that has a password cached on a service that you are managing with it?

Will.

Eric Perez

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Hi Will its a AD account used as a service account, not local...

becraig

Here is a previously answered question where I wrote a short script to do this:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28350680/PowerShell-script-to-change-Username-and-password-for-log-on-as-service-using-domain-account-on-remote-server.html

Eric Perez

ASKER

Ok I miss spoke some, its using the default service account which I need to change all of the servers using a specific service to change the default to a specified service account name and change the password.

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Eric Perez

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where does this txt file get placed?
$servers = (gc serverlist.txt)

becraig

You can change
gc serverlist.txt

To
gc c:\folder\filenamet.txt
Where the path is the exact path to the text file with your list of servers.

Eric Perez

ASKER

great response to the problem.. and interaction...