{"id":4765,"date":"2013-04-08T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharepointboost.com\/blog\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T03:39:25","slug":"how-to-configure-service-account-in-sharepoint-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-service-account-in-sharepoint-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure service account in SharePoint 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know in SharePoint all web applications and Windows Services need one managed account, or it cannot be running successfully.<br \/>\nThen how to configure service account in <a title=\"Sharepoint 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/tag\/sharepoint-2013\/\">SharePoint 2013<\/a>? The following will teach you step by step.<br \/>\nAssume that for some reasons you have to change the current service account to another for Web Application Pool &#8211; SharePoint &#8211; 80.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #0b72ba;\">First, you need to register the managed account that you want to change.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Open Central Administration, click Security tab on the left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Configure-Managed-Accounts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sharepoint Configure Managed Accounts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Configure-Managed-Accounts.jpg\" width=\"772\" height=\"473\" \/><!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #0b72ba;\">Click Configure Managed Accounts, enter Managed Account page.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Managed-Account-page.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sharepoint Managed Account page\" src=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Managed-Account-page.jpg\" width=\"715\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #0b72ba;\">Click Register Managed Account.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Register-Managed-Account.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sharepoint Register Managed Account\" src=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Register-Managed-Account.jpg\" width=\"715\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #0b72ba;\">Enter the User name and Password, click OK and the managed account is registered successfully.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notes: You need to use NetBIOS name &#8220;br&#8221; for User name not the fully qualified domain name&#8221;br.local&#8221;. Or you will see the error message &#8220;Specified value is not supported for the domain Name parameter.&#8221; In SharePoint 2010, the message is less clear as &#8220;Specified value is not supported for the {0} parameter.&#8221;<br \/>\nNow let&#8217;s specify the service account for the 80 port.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #0b72ba;\">In Security group, click Configure service accounts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Configure-service-accounts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sharepoint Configure service accounts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Configure-service-accounts.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #0b72ba;\">Click OK. It&#8217;s configured successfully!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can check it in IIS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Application-Pools.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sharepoint Application Pools\" src=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sharepoint-Application-Pools.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #0b72ba;\">Finally, you can access one site collection of this web application to make sure it&#8217;s OK.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, you can directly change the password of service account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/change-the-password-of-service-account.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"change the password of service account\" src=\"http:\/\/www.BoostSolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/change-the-password-of-service-account.jpg\" width=\"735\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We always encounter with such problem that we cannot connect to database when access one site collection. Sometimes the reason is just that the password is changed in Active Directory or it has expired. So you can conveniently tackle this problem by changing password just here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know in SharePoint all web applications and Windows Services need one managed account, or it cannot be running successfully. Then how to configure service account in SharePoint 2013? The following will teach you step by step. 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