I'm confused about all of the data copying going on when i publish a service in 10.1
I don't want my data copied anywhere. I have sde on my ags machine so there should be no duplication of data.
I can create just an sd file in arcmap and then i can use that sd file to create a published service and i think the data is not copied.
but what if i want to change the mxd slightly? how would i go about updating the service with the new sd file?
Maybe I'm missing something but copying data is not a good thing in my book.
Also when i publish mxds as services I see duplicate mxd/msd/sd files buried in esri directories.
I want there to be one copy of my mxd, one copy of my msd, and one copy of the sd. and i want all of those files to be in MY directories, where i put them.