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Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationEssential Windows Services: Security Center / wscsvcIn this article… What is the Security Center (wscsvc) service? Technical information What happens if I stop Security Center? Is it OK to disable the Security Center service? Questions? Problems? What is the Security Center (wscsvc) service? The Security Center … Continue reading Essential Windows Services: Security Accounts Manager / SamSsIn this article… What is the Security Accounts Manager (SamSs) service? What happens if I stop SamSs? Is it OK to disable the Security Accounts Manager service? What happens if I kill the SamSs process (lsass.exe)? The SamSs service isn’t … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged essential-windows-services, rpc-service, samss-service, server-service, windows-services 2 Comments Q&A: How do I Restart a Windows Service on a Remote Computer?What’s the best way to restart a Windows Service remotely from our central domain server? — Sylvia W. Hi Sylvia. We know of at least five ways to restart a Windows Service on a remote machine. Let’s review each method, … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged net.exe, psexec, psservice, q&a, sc.exe, servicepilot, services.msc, sysinternals, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: How do I Automatically Restart my Windows Service when it Crashes?One of our Windows Services crashes a few times a month. When that happens, a tech has to log into the server and start the service again, which is a pain. Isn’t there a way to restart the service automatically … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged failure-actions, q&a, service-protector, service-recovery, watchdog, windows-services 2 Comments Q&A: How Do I Delay the Start of my Windows Service?Our build server has a ton of services installed and it takes a while for them to start whenever the machine boots. One of the services doesn’t connect to the database if it starts too soon. When that happens, I … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged alwaysup, automatic-delayed, q&a, service-dependencies, task-scheduler, windows-services Leave a comment |
