remove account from managed account issue

Question

when i try to delete a managed account through central admin

sorry, something went wrong the account is still being used by a application pool : name

I changed the application pool identity in iis to another account and no luck, i can't delete the account from managed account!

I tried to restart SPTimer, and IIS and restart server no luck :( I have tried removing the account from PS using the remove-spmanagedaccount ,i got : The account domain\user is still being used by these component

Answer 1

You have to make sure this account is not being used by sharepoint.For this

• go to central admin > security > Configured the managed accounts
• On this page, click Edit button infront of the service account you are trying to delete
• next page, look bottom of the page and it will list all the apppool or services where this ID is being used.
• Now you have to change id for that apppool / service from SharePoint not directly from IIS. then reset IIS and try again.