{"id":9000,"date":"2025-07-01T07:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2025-07-01T07:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:12:26","slug":"how-to-update-the-synchronization-service-with-new-password-for-ad-ds-connector-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/how-to-update-the-synchronization-service-with-new-password-for-ad-ds-connector-account","title":{"rendered":"How to update the Synchronization Service with new password for AD DS connector account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reset MSOL_ user Password <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Start the Synchronization Service Manager (START ? Synchronization Service).<br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/entra\/identity\/hybrid\/connect\/media\/how-to-connect-sync-change-addsacct-pass\/startmenu.png\" alt=\"Sync Service Manager\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to the\u00a0<strong>Connectors<\/strong>\u00a0tab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the\u00a0<strong>AD Connector<\/strong>\u00a0that corresponds to the AD DS connector account for which its password was changed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under\u00a0<strong>Actions<\/strong>, select\u00a0<strong>Properties<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the pop-up dialog, select\u00a0<strong>Connect to Active Directory Forest<\/strong>:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter the new password of the AD DS connector account in the\u00a0<strong>Password<\/strong>\u00a0textbox.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>OK<\/strong>\u00a0to save the new password and close the pop-up dialog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Restart the\u00a0<strong>Microsoft Entra ID Sync<\/strong>\u00a0service under Windows Service Control Manager. This is to ensure that any reference to the old password is removed from the memory cache.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Run Sync Service to make sure all sucessful <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reset MSOL_ user Password<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9001,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}