Powershell set username/pwd for windows services

enthuguy
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Hi Powershell experts,

Using Powershell, would like to set username/password for a list of services (service1, service2, service3, etc) in Windows 2016 servers.
Since, I will be invoking this from AWS CloudFormation, Is there a better way to handle the password pls?
after setting credentials on these services, we need to ensure it is running as well.  :)

please help

Thanks in advance
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kevinhsiehNetwork Engineer

Commented:
You should be using Managed Service Accounts or Group Managed Service Accounts for handling credentials of services.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/group-managed-service-accounts/group-managed-service-accounts-overview
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$account="domain\user"
$password="passsword"
$service="name='servicename'"

$svc=gwmi win32_service -filter $service
$svc.StopService()
$svc.change($null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$account,$password,$null,$null,$null)
$svc.StartService()

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/313622/powershell-script-to-change-service-account
enthuguy

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Thanks kevinhsieh, yes it is a service account.

Thanks Shaun, will try this.

Is there a better way to handle/implement this pls?

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