View and Modify All of Your Windows Service Accounts
Managing thousands of systems in your network is difficult enough. Add to that the hundreds of services on every Windows machine and you have an IT management nightmare. Each service has many attributes: startup control, error control, dependencies, account logons, security and more. With Service Account Manager you can retrieve this information from a single unified console without the use of agents.
Service Account Manager allows you to not only view this information but to modify the services as well. For example, many programs utilize agents. Occasionally these agents need to be restarted. Service Account Manager can schedule these restarts while managing the dependency list at the same time. This ensures that the services are shutdown correctly, and then restarted correctly. Service Account Manager also allows you to update the credentials used by your services, as well as the logon cache.
You probably have service accounts that have not had their passwords updated in months, or even years. Service Account Manager shows you everywhere that the account is used by services, updates all of those services, and then restarts them. Service Account Manager can also update the logon cache of the system so that, even if the domain is unavailable to provide authentication at service startup, the service can still start and function - a godsend for remote sites and laptop users.
Generate Audit and Compliance Reports
Service Account Manager allows you to generate reports about your services, including information about the run as account. This, along with the product's ability to modify the run as information for a service, allows you to pass a security auditor's inspections with ease.
One of the many regulatory compliance requirements is updating passwords for every account on a regular basis - no matter what the account is used for. Service Account Manager can show you every service where an account is used, and allow you to update the passwords for that service account.
