Reset SMB password for an Azure NetApp Files cache volume

If you accidentally reset the password of the AD computer account on the AD server or the AD server is unreachable, you can safely reset the computer account password to preserve connectivity to your cache volumes. A reset affects all cache volumes on the SMB server.

Register the feature

The reset Active Directory computer account password feature is currently in public preview. If you're using this feature for the first time, you need to register the feature first.

1. Register the reset Active Directory computer account password feature:

   Register-AzProviderFeature -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.NetApp -FeatureName ANFResetADAccountForVolume
   

2. Check the status of the feature registration. The RegistrationState may be in the Registering state for up to 60 minutes before changing toRegistered. Wait until the status is Registered before continuing.

   Get-AzProviderFeature -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.NetApp -FeatureName ANFResetADAccountForVolume
   

You can also use Azure CLI commands az feature register and az feature show to register the feature and display the registration status.

Steps

Run the following command to reset SMB password for Azure NetApp Files cache volumes:

POST 
https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}/caches/{cacheName}/resetSmbPassword?api-version=2026-01-01

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