What could be the impact of changing System Account’s password and if this same account is used for running every SharePoint Services (CA, search, performancepoint, excel services, etc.) and application pools? I understand this is a bad practice to use System Account for each of these services and application pools but recently I have seen a SharePoint farm using System Account as a one man army.
*Note: System Account is a domain account.
Thanks amir. noted your points.
Ideally you should never change password. As changing password may down your farm if didn’t apply properly. still if you want to change and your account is managed account then you can change it from CA->Security->General Security ->Configure managed account-> Edit Account->Change password now ……Â
Make sure Password already changed in AD.
Then reset the IIS (iisreset).
