PowerShell script – Create Managed Accounts and Service Application Pools

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Introduction

When you’re configuring your farm, one of the first things you need to do is create the managed accounts and service app application pools your farm will use. The following PowerShell lines will do that:

Create Managed Accounts and Service Application Pool

NOTE: Change with your respective account id and password in the below script

# Create Managed Accounts
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString 'pass@word1' -AsPlainText -Force
 
# create sp_webapps
$account = New-Object system.management.automation.pscredential 
'contoso\sp_webapps', $password 
New-SPManagedAccount $account
 
# create sp_serviceapps
$account = New-Object system.management.automation.pscredential 
'contoso\sp_serviceapps', $password
New-SPManagedAccount $account
 
# Create the Service App Pool
New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name "Default SharePoint Service App Pool" 
-Account contoso\sp_serviceapps
$apppool = Get-SPServiceApplicationPool "Default SharePoint Service App Pool"