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The Problem I had to change the farm administrator because the IT decided not to use a single account as local admin anymore. So I changed the farm account with powershell and adapted all the services. The only think was that I had forgot to delete the account from the managed accounts list. Weeks passed and I stumbled over the account in the managed accounts list. When I tried to open the link " Security " -> " Configure managed accounts " I got an exception. The error was obvious. The account which was deleted from the AD could not be resolved. 1.Try I created the user again in the AD. After that the error in UI disappeared but when I tried to deleted the managed account from the list, I got following error. 2. Try It seemed that there some services still reference this account. The first thing was to check the IIS Application Pool accounts. Then I checked twice the settings in the CA " Security " -> " Configure Service

Turns out that the search service has problems when anonymous authetication is on. I have a custom tool to test my search, that connects to the search service and performs queries. Every time I tried to query the service I got this error. I could not easily disable anonymous authetication on my server because we used it for some sites. This article helped me to find a solution:  The SharePoint Search Service and Anonymous Access (Trinkit Blog)