Password/Services Change Question

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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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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

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

"Kevin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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