Can the MXD the map service was created be deleted and still have the map service work?
Mary M,
If you are talking about deleting a MXD (on your local computer) that you used to create a map service on ArcGIS Server then yes you can delete it if you want. In 10.x when you create a map service it creates a copy of the mxd and puts it into the map service definition on the server. That will stay there until you delete the map service.
One thing that I like to do is keep a folder of all the MXDs that I used to make my map services so in case I need to fix something in the map service I can easily fix the MXD and republish the service.
-Stan
Mary,
is there a reason why you would want to delete it?
Tim
I don't want to delete it. It is just I had a map service fail and the MXD had been saved to a 10.2 document, when the server is 10.0. I was not sure if the failure was due to the MXD changing. Nothing had been published as 10.2.
When a map service suddenly fails it is not typically a failure of the MXD. If the data changed and the MXD has for example a definition query or symbology that no longer matches the data then you do need to go back to the MXD and fix it and republish it.
Thanks, I can rule out the MXD being the cause of failure.
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