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How to reset/synchronize IUSR_servername & IWAM_servername passwords in both ADUC and IIS.

1.    Open AD Users & Computers.  Expand the Users OU, right-click on the user account (iusr_servername/iwam_servername) and select 'Reset password'  to reset the password. Note: the password can't be blank.

2.  Open this User Account's properties and make sure that 'Password never expires' and 'User cannot change password' are selected.

3.  Open IIS from  Administrative Tools.

4.  Expand servername>Web Sites

5.  Right-click on 'Default Web Site' and select Properties.

6.  Go to the 'Directory Security' tab and click the Edit button under 'Authentication & Access Control'

7.  Enter the new password you just reset for the IUSR_servername account and click OK.

8.  Enter the password again to confirm and click OK.

9. Click OK.

10.  Open a command prompt and run IISRESET

11.  At the command prompt, enter the following commands:

1) cd

2) c:\inetpub\adminscripts adsutil SET w3svc/WAMUserPass “password”    (Where password = the password you entered for the IWAM_servername account in AD Users & Computers)    

3) c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe "c:\inetpub\adminscripts\synciwam.vbs" –v

4) IISRESET

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