Features: Service Account Manager Manages Windows Service Credentials

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Service Account Manager features:

	Locate and update all services that run under specific accounts
	Find and replace service accounts by name/password
	Stop and restart all dependent services as part of any change operation
	Modify service dependencies
	Modify service security and auditing settings
	Remotely install and remove services in seconds
	Launch user defined tasks before and after service modifications
	Integrated view of all services on all managed systems in a single list (no need to drill down through complex trees)
	Integrated support for Remote Desktop management via VNC and Terminal Server. Highlight the systems you need to manage, and right-click/select the appropriate connection method to see any or all of their desktops
	Extensive reporting creates HTML reports as well as CSV files detailing service configurations with optional emailing capability
	Provides a view of missing services
	Restart services automatically at regular intervals (stops memory leaks)
	Reboot servers on a schedule of your choosing
	Extensive logging
	Certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Vista, and Hyper-V

Managing Windows services for a back office servers is a giant headache for administrators using Microsoft's built-in tools. The built-in tools require a massive number of mouse clicks and are incapable of answering the simple command: "show me which accounts are used on which services on all my servers, and give me a way to change them all at the same time."

Service Account Manager provides a single view of all services running/installed on all managed systems. Administrators can then sort by account (or any other reported characteristic), prepare reports on credential usage, and change virtually all service properties with a few mouse clicks.

Unlike other tools on the market, a full rights and service account membership editor are built-in, so not only are credentials updated, but their associated rights and memberships are correctly configured.

The best test of the quality of a service management tool is to have it change the credentials on applications such as Microsoft Exchange and Veritas' Backup Exec. These products have complex service dependency relationships that cause all other products on the market to either do the service update incorrectly or damage the target systems. Service Account Manager performs a "dynamic dependency analysis" on each system's services and performs all service stops and starts in the correct order every time.

Another unique feature of Service Account Manager is "logon cache updating". It will not only update service credentials, but will also update the local logon cache of the machine. This action provides a local cached copy of the changed credentials so that services using the new credentials will continue to function even if contact with the domain controller is lost.

Unlimited Impersonation allows an administrator to load as many alternate credentials as needed to provide cross domain and workgroup administration of service accounts without having to log off and on when different credentials are needed.

Service Account Manager contains deferred processing options that allow operations to automatically retry offline or otherwise unavailable systems. This feature can also be used to schedule operations to occur at specific times.

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