The problem
You change the password on the account, and the account constantly locks out.
The Application Pool in IIS AND the Windows Sharepoint Services Timer either are running under seperate accounts, OR you know have the correct password. The timer works fine, for a while, then you start seeing this in the event log:
My fix:
Firstly I tried using STSADM to update the farm administrators group :
stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin “account” -password “password”
IISRESET /noforce
stsadm -o updateaccountpassword -userlogin “account” -password “password” -noadmin
But the problem kept occurring.
This error message points to the SSP, so I opened up central admin, and clicked on the Shared Services Administration link, then Edit properties:
In here, MAKE SURE THE SSP Service Credentials are correct.
Once I’d corrected this, the problem was resolved.
NOTE : The account the service runs under needs to be in the Local Administrators group.
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