Ok, so you want to update the service account in Project Portal 2007, meaning the identity of the application pool that serves that site. No problem, you're a big-shot SharePoint expert, Project Portal is just part of SharePoint, you can handle this. You go ahead and do everything Microsoft tells you to do: http://support.microsoft.co... http://support.microsoft.co... Wonderful. Then your buddy asks you why you went through all that, when all you had to do was execute it through Central ......