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An account password has expired or is about to expire

  • Article

The information in this article applies to:

  • Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server

  • Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server

  • Application-tier server

  • Health check

The Best Practices Analyzer tool for Team Foundation Server checks the expiration date of the service account for Team Foundation Server. This account is called the TFSService account and is assigned as the identity to the application pools that Team Foundation uses.

A warning message appears if the password for that account is about to expire. An error appears if that password already has expired.

To resolve this issue, you must first update the password for that account on the domain. You must then update the password on the servers that are running components of Team Foundation. 

Required Permissions

To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the application-tier server for Team Foundation. You must also be a member of the SQL Server Administrator group on the data-tier server for Team Foundation.

To update the password of the service account for Team Foundation Server

  1. On the application-tier server for Team Foundation, open a Command Prompt window, and change directories to the location of the TFSAdminUtil utility.

    Note

    Even if you are logged on with administrative credentials, you must open an elevated Command Prompt to perform this function on a server that is running Windows Server 2008. To open an elevated Command Prompt, click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and click Run as administrator. For more information, see the Microsoft Web site.

    By default, this utility is located in one of the following directories:

    Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Tools

    Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Tools

  2. At a command prompt, type TFSAdminUtil ChangePasswordAccountNewPassword, and then press ENTER.

    You must specify the user name for the service account (Account) and the new password for the account (NewPassword).

See Also

Tasks

A service account is not configured correctly

Other Resources

Issues That Relate to the Application Tier for Team Foundation