Password/Services Change Question

[Kevin]

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

 

[Miha Pihler]

Hi Kevin,

You should change password on service account after your change the account
password. To make sure everything works, restart the service after you make
the change.

Mike

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

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