Update Farm
Credentials in SharePoint 2010,2013
A common task that every
time A SharePoint Administrator need to do is to update the SharePoint Farm
credentials when the password changes. may be able to do this
automatically by using the new SharePoint 2010 feature to plan automatic
password change.
No Command in Power Shell to update the farm account, you
have to switch to the tool “STSADM” only.
Since
its SharePoint 2010,go
to the path now the c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server
Extensions\14\Bin folder and type the below STSADM to update.
Since its SharePoint 2013 go to the path now the c:\Program
Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Bin folder and
type the below STSADM to update
stsadm –o updatefarmcredentials –userlogin
DOMAIN\username –password $password$
