Change maintenance plan owner

Jim,
Sorry, I don't know a neat way to change the maintenance plan owner. (In
SQL Server 2000, you can go through the process to modify system tables and
change the 'owner' column of msdb.dbo.sysdbmaintplans (although I don't
recommend it) but in SQL Server 2005 that avenue has been closed.)
You can, of course, change the job owner that runs the maintenance plan as
you already described. Is there a reason that the maintenance plan owner
needs to be changed? What side effects are you experiencing?
RLF
"Jim Early" <JimEarly@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I would like to change the owner of several maintenance plans. I can't
>seem
> to find a way to that without recreating each plan while connected as the
> new
> owner. Is there a method similar to changing a job's owner via the job's
> properties or a database's by sp_changedbowner?
> Thanks
Changing the owner of the job only works until the maintenance plan is
modified, then the jobs reverts back to the owner of the maintenance plan.
You might review this article:
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/acalvett/archive/2007/12/30/the-job-whose-owner-kept-coming-back.aspx
"Russell Fields" wrote:

> Jim,
> Sorry, I don't know a neat way to change the maintenance plan owner. (In
> SQL Server 2000, you can go through the process to modify system tables and
> change the 'owner' column of msdb.dbo.sysdbmaintplans (although I don't
> recommend it) but in SQL Server 2005 that avenue has been closed.)
> You can, of course, change the job owner that runs the maintenance plan as
> you already described. Is there a reason that the maintenance plan owner
> needs to be changed? What side effects are you experiencing?
> RLF
> "Jim Early" <JimEarly@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DF28A436-C2D0-4F86-9BC7-5591A164A464@.microsoft.com...
>
>
|||Interesting. Thanks, RLF
"jed" <jed@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Changing the owner of the job only works until the maintenance plan is
> modified, then the jobs reverts back to the owner of the maintenance plan.
> You might review this article:
> http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/acalvett/archive/2007/12/30/the-job-whose-owner-kept-coming-back.aspx
> "Russell Fields" wrote: