In exchange admin, hit F1. In the help menu, type "password" with out the
quotes. go to the section about site service accounts. This section will
tell you how to properly change the Site Service account password.
Additionally, there are numerous KB articles on changing Site service
passwords and accounts.
Matthew
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8-16-01
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: William Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:00 PM
>>>To: Exchange Discussions
>>>Subject: _Changing Exchange Passwords
>>>
>>>
>>>A member if my IS team has left our company and for security
>>>purposes we
>>>will change our administrative passwords, which includes
>>>accounts used for
>>>"log on locally" services.
>>>
>>>Are there any gotchas that I should look out for when
>>>changing my exchange
>>>administrator account password? My plan is to simply log out
>>>of any machines
>>>that my have the exchange administrator account logged in, change the
>>>password in Usermgr, then restart services and/or reboot servers as
>>>necessary and watch to make sure that the services start properly.
>>>
>>>Am I missing anything?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>William L. Smith, MCP
>>>Systems Administrator
>>>
>>>
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