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Windows services, also referred to as NT services, are background service processes run by the Service Control Manager based on the service settings and optionally restarted as needed. Windows services are also capable of being launched on demand, based on other service dependencies.

More information at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d56de412(v=vs.80).aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_service

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How to fix alerts in server manager for Tile Data model server service?

I manage a small collection of Windows Server 2016 Standard instances, virtualized on VMware and joined to an Active Directory domain. In Server Manager, I commonly see alerts on these servers for the "tiledatamodelsvc" having a status of…
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Windows Service with dependency cannot start automatically

I have Service B that is dependent on Service A. Both services are set for automatic(delayed) start upon boot and both services have set Recovery Action of restart in case of first, second and subsequent failures. The scenario is: Windows is…
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Microsoft Dynamics GP Session Central Service does not start

ITNOA All GP services started except GP session central service. When I want to start it, I see the below error in Event Viewer. GP session central: An argument pointing to a valid servicehost config file is missing. This is a very bad problem…
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How do I stop service on remote server, that's not connected to a domain, using a non admin user via PowerShell

I've got the start of the script to achieve this: $SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString –String $Password –AsPlainText -Force $Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $UserName,…
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Run PowerShell script with Service Start

I'd like to set the Affinity and Priority of a service process when it is started (without modifying the service/process code, I don't own the code, it's a 3rd party service). I know I can do: $Process = Get-Process…
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Automatic Windows Service Not Starting

I have a services running in Windows Local Services which is set to Automatic Startup. Every so often this service doesn't start after a reboot and there are no errors in the event log. The service uses a domain service account as its impersonation.…
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svchost.exe -k regsvc using over 1.2 GB RAM

I have 3 Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Servers (VM) and each one has svchost process that is taking up more than 1.2 GB of RAM. I understand that this is running RemoteRegistry Windows Service that could also be used for Performance Counters. I found this KB…
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Problem with Windows Service and network printers

I have a Windows Service application that every now and then should print some documents. As far as I know, to print those documents, my service must be run with a user account other than Local Service or Network Service. So i have created a user…
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Windows Service "System error 5 has occurred. starting service"

I have a Windows 2012 R2 server which has been happily running a windows service for roughly 3-4 months with various build revisions going into the software. The server configuration hasn't changed at all, however I have just started seeing the…
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Event logger won't start: error 2 The system cannot find the file specified, Windows server 2008R2

NOTE: this is a "spawn" of a previous post which dealt with 2 different issues and became too lengthy, so I decided to clean the original question and post this issue in a separate question When I try to start Windows Event Log via net start…
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AD LDS service account as local admin to allow SSL connection?

I am installing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS, aka ADAM) on a Windows 2012 vm. After finally getting the configuration of the directory and synchronization handled, I am now running into an interesting problem. I have…
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MySQL failed to start. Error 1053. Windows Server 2008 R2

I did a server restart for my web server and on restart, MySQL won't start. If I use taskmanager to kill mysqld.exe and try the start from services console, it gets about 50% through the startup, stalls for a long time, and when it eventually…
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IIS 8 Service Name - Windows Server 2012

I wrote a monitoring app which probes different parts of the system. Now I look for IIASADMIN service to see status of IIS. But there is not a service named IISADMIN there. What's the service name of IIS on Windows Server 2012?
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Windows Services: How to schedule and monitor them?

We have about a dozen Windows Services, both in-house developed and third-party products, and have the following requirements for managing them: Start/Stop/Bounce a given service at scheduled times of day, on certain days of the week. Optionally…
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Log places to look for when a Vista service stops immediatly

I'm trying to diagnose why cygwin sshd service starts and stops immediately. In the Vista application event log I found: sshd: PID 3480: `sshd' service stopped, exit status: 255 It doesn't help much. Where could I look for other hints? Other places…
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