“Service Account Manager lets us simultaneously change service account passwords on hundreds of servers at sites throughout the world, from one central console. This is much more efficient than the time-consuming manual processes we had been using, while also decreasing security threats.”


Kathleen Grieve | Computer Operations and Disaster Recovery Supervisor, Hunton and Williams
 

Service Account Manager provides automated mass management of Windows service accounts and service passwords, helping meet the security best practices and regulatory compliance initiatives of frequently updated administrator passwords.

Service Account Manager remotely accesses, analyzes, and modifies Windows service properties concurrently on all systems in the enterprise. It provides a consolidated view of every service running on every server, allowing you to quickly update all service account credentials.

Service Account Manager scans every system for the services that reference domain administrator and local administrator accounts. Once identified, the credentials can be updated on every system simultaneously. This not only ensures that passwords are regularly changed, but also that all of the services that reference the passwords are updated. Service Account Manager provides a full audit trail on credentials usage, and can verify that changes have been implemented on every machine in your network.

Service Account Manager is certified for use on and with Windows Server 2008 R2. Support is available to customers who deploy the application on Windows Server 2008 R2 during their evaluation of Service Account Manager and who are under a current support agreement.

Key Features:

  1. Modify all service properties collectively, or surgically change a particular machine’s service configurations

  2. Locate every place that domain administrator accounts are being used by Windows services and change them all simultaneously

  3. View all Windows services in one consolidated display

  4. Run dynamic dependency analysis on all systems

  5. Generate filtered reports detailing service configurations


Key Benefits:

  1. Meet Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other compliance regulations by frequently updating service account credentials to comply with security best practices for Windows services

  2. Ensure the optimal performance of your IT infrastructure by preventing disruptions to mission-critical servers and performance degradation

  3. Increase productivity by collectively managing all of the Windows services dispersed throughout the enterprise, eliminating problematic scripting processes


Service Account Manager and Security Best Practices

Many Windows servers use common domain administrator accounts to run business-critical applications. Security compliance regulations and security best practices dictate that the passwords on administrator accounts used by Windows services must be changed every 30 to 90 days, without fail.

Normally, the credentials used by Windows services must be manually updated for each service on every server. With a typical manual change time of about five minutes per service, and approximately four services per system, it takes about 20 minutes to change each server manually.