Summary

This article descibes additional changes that are required after a password change is done for the App Portal Service account.

Synopsis

This article describes additional changes that are required after a password change is done for the App Portal Service account.

Discussion

Some organizations have a security policy that require account passwords to be changed periodically.

If the App Portal Service account's password is changed, the new password would need to specified in the following areas:
1) For the ESDService under the services view

2) In IIS manager, under application pools. select SelfService.

3) If using the App Portal Service account for forests/domain in the Active Directory view of App Portal the password at that location needs to be changed

4) Do an IISRESET from an admin command prompt window

5) Update the account running the following My Apps Scheduled tasks under the Task Scheduler | Task Scheduler Library

• App Portal - Process Computers for My Apps Alerts
• App Portal - Send out My Apps Email Notifications

Additional Information

To change the password for the App pools and sites please open IIS and perform the following:

1) Open IIS
2) Select Application Pools in the Connections tree
3) Select the Application Pool
4) Right Click and select Advance Settings.
5) Find Process Model / Identity. The default may read ApplicationPoolIdentity
6) Click to the value (e.g. ApplicationPoolIdentity)
7) Click the ellipsis that appears to the right
8) Select a built in account or click custom account
9) If Custom account was chosen, click Set and specify the Windows account and password
10) Click OK to close the Set Credentials dialog
11) Click OK to close the Application Pool Identity dialog
12) Click OK to close the Advanced Settings dialog.
13) Recycle the Application Pool.

For sites please navigate to each site and change the authentication settings as appropriate.