PowerShell script to reset service account password and restart services on multiple servers.

Need: You need to reset the password for a service account on one or more services on multiple servers at the same time, and restart the impacted services.

Prerequisite: Create a txt file with all the servers that are using a specific service account for one or more services.  Create a column header of "servers" and just paste all the servers names below.You can compile this file from my earlier blogpost here.

Script:

$newpass = "ReallyLongPasswordYouWouldHateTyping"

Import-csv C:\data\computers.txt|foreach-object {

$server = $_.servers

$services = get-wmiobject win32_service -ComputerName $server |?{$_.Startname -like "*svcaccountname*"}

foreach($service in $services)

{$service.change($null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$newpass)

get-service $service.name -ComputerName $server|stop-service

start-sleep -s 30

get-service $service.name -ComputerName $server|start-service

}}