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  Configuration Database Passphrase (2 posts)

• Ricky Spears said 1 year, 9 months ago:

  Is it possible to change or recover a lost passphrase?

• Ricky Spears said 1 year, 9 months ago:

  It is possible to change the passphrase if you forget it. Run PowrShell as administrator with:
  C:PS>$passphrase = ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
  C:PS>Set-SPPassPhrase -PassPhrase $passphrase -Confirm

  This is from here:
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/45d52d5b-efb0-4a39-b9f8-796f13145afc