Random Thunks

I was doing a round of mass service account password changes today on one of our development servers and came across this bit of strangeness; despite making several attempts to update the account and password in the Configuration manager the SSIS service refused not only to start up, but also failed to give any indication as to why (the application logs were horribly silent on anything from either SSIS or even the service manager).

So I went into the back door and fired up the Services applet and refreshed the password in there. One message informing me the account had been granted the ‘Logon as a service’ privilege and the service was up.

What beats me is why the configuration manager refused on multiple times to accept the change. Not saying we should all ignore the config manager from now on but I myself will bear this in mind for future weirdness.