Password reset in SharePoint

Question

_{Thursday, December 17, 2015 4:00 PM}

Hi,

  When we change password using managed account, how that gets synced with AD ?

  For un-managed accounts When change the password in AD how that gets updated in SharePoint?

All replies (5)

_{Monday, December 21, 2015 9:23 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Actually SharePoint doesn’t store any passwords, and even user profile only sync common attributes. Passwords will never sync with it.

SharePoint authentication relies on NTLM, Kerberos, or basic Windows(as well as form-based) authentication. Both users and services accounts passwords need to be changed in Active Directory, and once the password change population completed in AD, users will be able to use the new passwords to authenticate their SharePoint.

Thanks,

Wendy

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_{Tuesday, December 22, 2015 1:19 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

There are no authentication or users with passwords kept in SharePoint, SharePoint always relies on an external directory service for authentication. When you change the password from SharePoint Central Administration, actually it is changed in AD not SharePoint because SharePoint don't store any passwords. So when you change password in SharePoint, it happens immediately in AD.

A similar thread for your reference:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/fd505d35-5470-4586-a1ca-45edcadc4b58/i-would-like-to-reset-user-password-in-sharepoint-using-c?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious

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Wendy

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_{Friday, December 18, 2015 4:34 AM}

Hi,

When you change password for a managed account in SharePoint, the change will be updated into AD automatically.

Vice versa, if you change password for a unmanaged account, the change will be updated into SharePoint automatically. However, if you set a unmanaged account as the following service accounts, you must perform extra steps after you have changed their password in Active Directory:

User Profile Synchronization Service account
User Profile Synchronization Connection account
SharePoint Server Search default content access account and Content Access accounts defined in the crawl rules.
SharePoint Foundation Search default content access account
Unattended execution accounts (Excel, Visio, PerformancePoint)
Object cache super user and object cache reader accounts

More information:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/charliechirapuntu/archive/2013/01/16/sharepoint-2010-comprehensive-steps-to-change-passwords-of-all-service-accounts.aspx

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Wendy

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_{Friday, December 18, 2015 7:22 AM}

What I want to know is that how it is replication the password to AD and vice versa. Is there any timer job for that?

_{Monday, December 21, 2015 2:03 PM}

Hi,

  When we change the password from CA then how did it actually gets changed in AD. Does that change immediately happen in AD or by some job it is done.