1. Central Admin crashed, and I no longer have access to Central Admin, after setting the Server Farm service to a Managed Account in Central Admin. Everything else still works, but not Central Admin.
2. I tried to go back to the old account that worked, but from the “15\BIN”, STSADM and UPDATEFARMCREDENTIALS keeps giving me the error: “access denied”.
I have 2 WFE, 1 APP, 1 SQL Server, and SharePoint 2013 RTM.
I originally had my Setup User account (svcSps2013SetupUser) in all my services (new installation). I created seven more AD Accounts. I used Register Managed Accounts to put them into SharePoint. I used Manage Services to map the dropdown for “Server Farm Service” to the corresponding dropdown for “Server Farm Account” (svcSpSrvrFrm) -- and Central Admin immediately threw the error: “Error in / Application”.
I’ve been through Technet and Microsoft’s Installation book, and am quite certain I followed the correct steps in the correct order.
The only root cause I can see is that my service accounts have been intermittently locked-out by windows on the APP, for an unknown reason. Any lock is cleared now, but still no improvement.
Does this lock-out behavior ring a bell for anybody?
Any ideas how to get back to the working state I had this morning?