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Service Account Manager is a powerful mass management tool for the automated and remote management of Windows services. The tool provides a single view of all services on all managed systems, allowing administrators to report on and change virtually all service properties with a few mouse clicks.
Security Best Practices and Practical Challenges
Many Windows servers use common domain administrator accounts to run day-to-day business critical applications. Security auditors and security best practices dictate that the passwords on common administrator accounts used by services must be changed every 30 to 90 days without fail (sooner, if there is turnover in the IT Department).
Normally, the credentials used by Windows services must be manually updated on each and every service that uses them on every server. With a typical manual change time of about 5 minutes per service and approximately 4 services per system to be changed, the process takes about 20 minutes to change each server manually.
While the service change process is proceeding, the enterprise is essentially off-line or significantly impaired. Add to this, a typical manual error rate of about 10%, in a significant sized server farm would lead to many systems being damaged randomly by operator mistakes during the change process.
Service Account Manager Mass Manages Service Credential Updates
Service Account Manager automates the security auditor required service account change process reducing the change time to milliseconds per machine with a zero error rate (it's not manual) in the service account password change process. Off-line systems are automatically recorded and queued for automatic periodic retry. Built-in functionality provides for automated service restarts, scheduled reboots, and a lot more.
This all means that the regular password change process can proceed on all systems in the enterprise at regular intervals without endangering the uptime of critical systems or consuming vast IT resources and incurring significant down time.
Free Trial of Service Account Manager
Download Service Account Manager and begin managing your services in less than 5 minutes. You may manage up to 10 systems for 30 days at no charge using the freely downloaded version of Service Account Manager without a commercial license key.
To learn more about Service Account Manager: Contact Us.
Write Your Own Scripts and Save Money?
You can try writing your own service account password manager using scripts, but you give up logging, systems list management, connection account impersonation, speed and reliability. Most scripts suffer from a failure rate of about 5% to 10% in the service account change process. If you don't mind missing or improperly changing a significant fraction of service on your systems to save money...
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Your Solution to Service Account Password Management Audit Compliance
Lieberman Software's Service Account Manager is a standalone Windows program that has the ability to manage both large and small server farms and proven technology to rapidly and reliably discover where specific service accounts are being used and the ability to change the common account service settings on all your systems worldwide (yes it works very well on both LAN and WAN connections) in just minutes.
Competitors
Our competitors have less capable products that look similar to ours (guess who they copied from?), but lack our sophisticated service management capabilities, speed, reliability and product maturity of our products (our first version was released in 1998) and our products are Microsoft Logo Tested, theirs are not.
Easy to Buy
Service Account Manager is available on GSA, CMAS and other state contracts. Contact us for special government discounts.
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