Powershell script to change service account

Question

Does anyone have a Powershell script to change the credentials used by a Windows service?

Answer 1

The given answers do the job.

Although, there is another important detail; in order to change the credentials and run the service successfully, you first have to grant that user account permissions to 'Log on as a Service'.

To grant that privilege to a user, use the Powershell script provided here by just providing the username of the account and then run the other commands to update the credentials for a service as mentioned in the other answers, i.e.,

$svc=gwmi win32_service -filter 'Service Name'

$svc.change($null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,'.\username','password',$null,$null,$null)