Keep in mind that the boneheads could have mapped drives or open terminal server sessions going using the service account. If you run into a lockout after the change, keep this in mind.
Tom. -----Original Message----- From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Oh crap. Need to change service account password. I don't use the service account. But my super knows all the domain admin passwords and it was he that gave it out to a bunch of the helpdesk people. I have one backup that knows what to do and how to behave, and I have a person that creates accounts for me but her rights are trimmed. Basically this whole problems boils down to the extreme stupidity of my supervisor. -----Original Message----- From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Oh crap. Need to change service account password. That's one of the articles. You didn't say how you are setup though. One thing that jumps out at me though is that you should never be using the service account anyway. Systems use the service account; people use logon accounts that have privileges. Also you should be training [1] your admins to quit deleting mailboxes. Mailboxes should be hidden for an appropriate amount of time before being deleted from the Hidden view. [1] Or beating them with the StIcK, you choose. -----Original Message----- From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:01 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Oh crap. Need to change service account password. Would that be q157780? -----Original Message----- From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:00 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Oh crap. Need to change service account password. There is a technet whitepaper - get it, read it, read it again. There could be many gotchas depending on your Org and site setup. -----Original Message----- From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 8:50 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Oh crap. Need to change service account password. You know some days I really like this job, and other days I really hate it. Apparently my boss in his infinite wisdom decided it would be wise to give a bunch of people that know nothing about Exchange the service account password. A result of this was the deletion of several mailboxes and one IMS connector. Needless to say I was nowhere around at the time, perhaps if I had been I would have been able to put a stop to this. So it looks like I need to change my service account password and not tell my boss what it is. So I'm making a checklist of where the password gets used. Obviously all the MS Exchange services. Is there any other place where I will need to type in the new password? Any other concerns I should have in doing this? Help most appreciated. Thanks Eric _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
