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Published inJan 2011
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ISBN-139781849681087
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Peter Serzo
Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Configuring a Managed account


A Managed account in SharePoint is an account that is completely managed by Active Directory.

Service accounts are a prime example. These accounts are typically domain-level accounts that are managed in Active Directory (AD). Being an active directory account means it is subject to the policies implemented across the organization. For example, a user may have to change their password every six months. The policy may dictate that the password meet certain criteria such as containing upper case and lower case characters.

The problem with this scenario in SharePoint terms occurs when the password needs to be changed. The service stops working when the password expires. If the account is the identity for multiple services, they stop working too, which potentially brings a working SharePoint installation to a stop.

In many organizations, there is a division of responsibilities that can prohibit the SharePoint Farm Administrator from changing the password of an AD...

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Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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