Quick question anyone. Can the Central Admin application pool account be changed in SP2013? If so, how? Not seeing it under ‘configure service accounts’ setting. Does it need to remain the SPFarm account?
Hi Jason,
use stsadm.exe to do so.
if 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.
if 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>
Follow the steps from this article:Â http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838