Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationQ&A: How do I Avoid Errors when Stopping my Plex Windows Service?I’ve download the trial version of AlwaysUp and installed it on a Server 2016 standard machine. I’ve created a Windows service for Plex Media Server and all is working well except for shutting the service down (or restarting). Every time … Continue reading Q&A: How Do I Give my Windows Service More Time to Stop During Shutdown?One of our file ingestion services can take a while to finish all pending database updates and exit cleanly. Sometimes when we reboot the server, Windows doesn’t wait for the service to finish, and we end up with database corruption, … Continue reading Q&A: Can my Legacy Application Read Network Drives when Run as a Service?I am evaluating AlwaysUp. I have a legacy application which must run as a local user. I can get it to run as a service using AlwaysUp. The application works with parameters. These point to a domain folder (eg. \\MyServer\Data1\). … Continue reading Q&A: Can I Activate/Register AlwaysUp Without an Internet Connection?My company is interested in your AlwaysUp software. We would like to implement it in computers which are not connected to the Internet. These computers can’t be connected to the Internet, not even for a few minutes. Is it possible … Continue reading Q&A: NET STOP Fails with “Access is Denied”. How I Do Make it Work?I followed your NET article on how to stop a service but when I run NET STOP it fails with “System error 5 has occurred Access is denied”. It looks like a permissioning issue but do you have any way … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged net.exe, q&a, service-security-editor, user-account-control, windows-services 6 Comments |
