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Published inJul 2022
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ISBN-139781803242507
Edition2nd Edition
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Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer
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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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Changing passwords for Azure AD Connect service accounts

This recipe shows how to manually change passwords for your Azure AD Connect service account(s).

Getting ready

To reconfigure Azure AD Connect, you need to sign in with an account that is a local administrator account on a server dedicated to Azure AD Connect. As part of the following steps, you need to enter credentials for these accounts:

  • An account in Azure AD that has the Global administrator role assigned
  • An account in Active Directory that is a member of the Domain Admins group, for each domain in which Seamless SSO is configured (only applicable when Seamless SSO is configured)

If the organization uses the Azure AD PIM feature, activate the Global administrator role in advance.

Azure AD Connect needs to be initially configured.

How to do it...

Perform the steps outlined next to change passwords for the following Azure AD Connect service accounts:

  1. The AD Connector account—...
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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803242507

Author (1)

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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
Read more about Sander Berkouwer