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Forget your SharePoint Passphrase? No Problem

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Getting a high load on your farm and you decide to add a new Web Front End to the mix. Oh no! You forgot that SharePoint Passphrase to allow you to connect to your farm.

Before you start freaking out, check out this powershell command

Get-Help Set-SPPassPhrase -Detailed

To easily reset your SharePoint Passphrase

$passphrase = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "mySharePoint2010password"   -asPlainText -Force

Set-SPPassPhrase -PassPhrase $passphrase -Confirm

Thanks to Stewart Wainaina for sharing this!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Valuable info.

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2012
    Thanks a lot!

  • Anonymous
    July 19, 2013
    Very precious

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2013
    Exactly, what i was looking for.

  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2014
    Thanks for sharing. This post on resetting the passphrase has helped me more than once. We go through so many configuration tasks that its easy to forget what you did. Thank heaven for the internet! :)

  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2014
    Valuable information, very good. Thanks..

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2015
    Thanks for this, saved my life.

  • Anonymous
    September 08, 2015
    I get an error ConvertTo-SecureString is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet...

    Using MSSQL 2012

  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2015
    You should be running this through SharePoint Management Shell on a SharePoint server. Not on the SQL Server through Management Studio...

  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2015
    When asked to "ConfirmPassPhrase:" you just re-type the password you placed in-between quotes on the "ConvertTo-SecureString" command. Then finally "Y" to the confirm prompt.