Re: Password/Services Change Question

From: Joe Richards [MVP] (humorexpress_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/03/04


Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:25:29 -0400

It depends on what exactly the service is doing with the credentials. Some will
run forever until the service is restart, some will blow up immediately, some
will blow up hours later. It depends.

The best general course of action is to shut down the service, change the
password on the account, change the password on the service, restart the service.

   joe

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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
www.joeware.net
Kevin wrote:
> Will changing a domain account password that some services 
> have logged on as make the services stop or will 
> everything keep on running? In other words, the account 
> that the service is running as needs to be changed, per 
> company policy. Can I do this with the services running? 
> or should I take no chances and stop each of them before 
> changing the password?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Kevin


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