I needed to change the farm account for my SharePoint environment. Using resources I found online I was able to change the account and for the most part it seems successful. All the app pools, service accounts and application services seems to be updated. The only thing I have noticed is that all of the existing Content Databases have the owner set to the old farm account. Any idea if this will be a problem?
The new farm account has been added to the SQL security but it is running under it's own schema and not dbo. Trying to change the db owner in Management Studio results in an error when trying to remove the old account or add the new one as dbo. The only way I found to do it though Management studio was to delete the current farm account from the database security (which also removes the schema) then change the db owner to the new farm account in the database properties. This removes the old farm account and changes the new account to run under the dbo schema.
I'm just not sure if I need to do this, if it's safe to do this and whether I can do it for the the SharePoint system databases (Search_Service_Application, User Profile Service, Web Analytics etc.)?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks
