I never create services using the data owner account -- best practice calls for a different user with the least possible permission (ideally, just SELECT), granted through roles -- but the problem is the same: You can't change the password of the service user without impacting services. You must stop (or delete) all impacted services, and alter the connection (or recreate them entirely). This is another reason to use extremely limited user accounts for services -- If they have nothing beyond query ability, there's less reason to change the browse user's password. - V Yes, even we use different user/account, the problem is the same. The reason for change password is part of company policy (I think most companies adopted this policy). Users are not only browse/query, they can also alter. So I see that some other ArcGIS customers mentioned about change password but there is no a formal instruction/steps/direction from ESRI regarding the proper/easy way when it comes to change password. Are we looking into future version that can make change password a little bit easy? Thank you
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