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Before you change an account, you must first verify that the
account is used for the CentralAdminAppPool application pool account. If the
account is used for the CentralAdminAppPool application pool account, you must
update the account and the password in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. By
default, the account that is used for the configuration database administration
account is also used for the CentralAdminAppPool application pool
account.
Important You must update the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 configuration
in the order that the steps use in this article to prevent possible failures
with the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 server.
Note You can use the Central Admin Farm Account settings page instead
of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) to change the
CentralAdminAppPool application pool account credentials. However, the current
account credentials must be valid, and the Central Admin Farm Account settings
page must open correctly. Microsoft strongly recommends that you follow the
steps in this article to avoid possible disruption of access to SharePoint
Portal Server 2003.
To change the CentralAdminAppPool application pool
account, follow these steps:
- Click Start, point to
Administrative Tools, and then click Internet
Information Services (IIS) Manager.
- In the Internet Information Services management console,
expand the tree view.
- Expand Application Pools.
- Right-click CentralAdminAppPool, and then
click Properties.
- Click the Identity tab, and then click
Configurable.
- In the User name text box, type the user
name in the following format where domain is the
name of your domain and where user_name is the name
of the new account:
- In the Password text box, type the new
password, and then click OK.
- Click OK.
- Right-click CentralAdminAppPool, and then
click Recycle.
- Quit IIS.
After you update the CentralAdminAppPool application pool
account, you must change the configuration database administration account
credentials on the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration Web
page.
To change the configuration database administration account,
follow these steps:
- Open the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration
for server_name Web page, where
server_name is the computer name of your SharePoint
Portal Server 2003 server.
- In the Server Configuration area, click
Configure server farm account settings.
- In the Configuration Database Administration
Account area, click Specify account.
- In the User name (DOMAIN\user name) text
box, type the user name of the account.
- In the Password text box and in the
Confirm Password box, type the account password.
- Click OK.
After you change the configuration database administration
account, you must also change the default content access account.
To
change the default content access account, follow these steps:
- Open the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration
for server_name page.
- In the Server Configuration area, click
Configure server farm account settings.
- In the Default Content Access Account
area, click to select the Specify account check
box.
- In the User name (DOMAIN\user name) text
box, type the user name of the account.
- In the Password text box and in the
Confirm Password box, type the account password.
- Click Ok.
Note Under some circumstances, you may receive unexpected search
results after you change the default access account.
For
additional information, click the following article number to view the article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
835707
Users receive unexpected search results after you update the default content access account in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
After you update the default content access
account, you must change the portal site application pool identity.
To
change the portal site application pool identity, follow these steps:
- Open the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration
for server_name page.
- In the Server Configuration section, click
Configure server farm account settings.
- In the Portal Site Application Pool
Identity section, click Change account
settings.
- If you want to update the user name, type the name of the
new user account in the User name (DOMAIN\user name) text
box.
- Type the account password in the Password
text box and in the Confirm Password box.
- Click OK.
After you complete the steps that are listed in this article,
all the services and application pools are updated and are restarted. These
steps automatically update the registry entries that SharePoint Portal Server
2003 uses.
You must complete the steps in this article on each
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 server in your farm. Although you can write a
script to manually update the services, doing so may cause a timing issue to
occur in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The timing issue may prevent Search and
Gathering processes from completing successfully.
For more information
about account credentials, search for Changing Access Accounts and Passwords in
the
SharePoint Portal Server
Administrators Guide.