Monday, March 3, 2014

Resetting the SharePoint Farm Passphrase

If you ever have to add additional SharePoint servers to your SharePoint Farm or if you need to upgrade your SharePoint Farm with a Cumulative Update or a Service Pack, then you will need to know your SharePoint Farm Passphrase.

The SharePoint Farm Passphrase is originally configured when you first set up and install SharePoint for the very first time.

But what if you have forgotten your SharePoint Farm Passphrase since then?

Well, fortunately, you can easily reset your SharePoint Farm Passphrase through a very simple set of of PowerShell commands as is described in this article:  http://sharepointadam.com/2010/01/21/reset-the-farm-passphrase-in-sharepoint-2010/

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