Using SC.exe to set service credentials password fails

Question

I know this question has been asked in the past, but a satisfactory answer has not been provided.

I am using the SC command to config the credentials for a service.<

Answer 1

Run against this problem while doing some Powershell scripting and the issue in my case was the special characters in the password.

Got it working by storing the password in a variable with double quotes around it:

$servicePassword = "`"passwordWithSpecialCharacters`"" cmd /c sc config myService obj= mydomain\myuser password= $servicePassword

Special characters are:

()'"$><^?