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Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationQ&A: How do I allow Non-Admins to Start/Stop/Restart my AlwaysUp Windows Services?I’m wanting to know what permissions a user is required to have in order to stop and start AlwaysUp services. Is there a way to grant access to specific users as I don’t want to have to give them full … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, q&a, security, service-security-editor, subinacl, windows-services Leave a comment 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: 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 Why Should I Buy AlwaysUp Instead of Writing My Own Windows Service?AlwaysUp was created to solve a simple problem. How do you make an existing executable run all the time, despite reboots, crashes and other annoying interruptions? To solve the problem, AlwaysUp leverages Microsoft’s technology of choice for 24/7 operation — … Continue reading |
