Description:
You have ADFS farm and you want to change the existing ADFS service account. You already have the step by step and the PowerShell module for changing the service account as written at other article in this blog.. However you want to know if there any pre-requisites or problem that you might encounter during the process
Resolution:
The prerequisites for changing the ADFS service account are:
- On each machine of the ADFS farm, install the following:
- Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017
- ODBC Drive 17 for SQL Server
- SQLCMD.exe from Microsoft command line utilities for Microsoft SQL Server 2019
- Enable AD & AD LDS PowerShell tool from Server Manager on all ADFS server
- Domain Admin Account
Best practices:
- Run the command to change the service account using Domain Admin Account. Logon Interactively on the ADFS server using Domain Admin, avoid using "Run As".
- ADFS services will be restarted during the process. Plan the maintenance time carefully.
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