{"id":12772,"date":"2024-12-23T06:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T14:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=12772"},"modified":"2024-12-23T06:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T14:24:21","slug":"version-10-5-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/service-protector\/version-10-5-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Protector 10.5 Restarts your Windows Services when Critical Events Occur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-lazy-load\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/new-release-434x212.webp\" title=\"Service Protector 10.5 Restarts your Windows Services when Critical Events Occur\" alt=\"Service Protector 10.5 Restarts your Windows Services when Critical Events Occur\" border=\"0\" width=\"434\" height=\"212\"><\/div>\n<p>To cap a very busy 2024, our team released <a href=\"\/products\/ServiceProtector\/\">Service Protector<\/a> 10.5 on December 20. Happy holidays to you and yours!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new in this release.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">Automatically restart your Windows Service if a &#8220;bad&#8221; event is logged<\/h2>\n<p>One of the most unique features built into Service Protector is the ability to restart your service whenever something important goes wrong. In fact, you can install a <a href=\"\/blog\/service-protector\/version-8-released\/\">sanity check<\/a>, to constantly interrogate your service and quickly detect when things go off the rails.<\/p>\n<p>Version 10.5 introduces a powerful new sanity check. With our latest addition, you can automatically recycle your Windows Service whenever one or more <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/identity\/ad-ds\/plan\/appendix-l--events-to-monitor\" target=\"_blank\">critical Windows events<\/a> are reported.<\/p>\n<p>The new sanity check is most helpful when external\/system changes can impact your important Windows Services. For example, you can instruct Service Protector to restart your service if any of the following security events occur:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:24px\">\n<li>\n<p>The system time changes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com\/securitylog\/encyclopedia\/event.aspx?eventid=4616\" target=\"_blank\">event 4616<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Someone logs off the computer (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com\/securitylog\/encyclopedia\/event.aspx?eventid=4634\" target=\"_blank\">event 4634<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A user account gets deleted (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com\/securitylog\/encyclopedia\/event.aspx?eventid=4726\" target=\"_blank\">event 4726<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Windows Firewall exception list changed (events <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com\/securitylog\/encyclopedia\/event.aspx?eventid=4946\" target=\"_blank\">4946<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com\/securitylog\/encyclopedia\/event.aspx?eventid=4947\" target=\"_blank\">4947<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com\/securitylog\/encyclopedia\/event.aspx?eventid=4948\" target=\"_blank\">4948<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may want to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com\/securitylog\/encyclopedia\/\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of Windows security events<\/a> to see if any should trigger your service to restart.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"blog-caption\">How to watch out for critical events<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>The new sanity check is very easy to set up. Here&#8217;s the process, step by step:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-bottom:24px\">\n<li>\n<p>Edit your service in Service Protector.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Switch to the <b>Monitor<\/b> tab.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Check the <b>Whenever it fails a periodic sanity check<\/b> box and click the <b>Set<\/b> button:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/service-protector-enable-sanity-check.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Enable the sanity check feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/service-protector-enable-sanity-check.png\" title=\"Enable the sanity check feature (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Enable the sanity check feature\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In the <b>Add Sanity Check<\/b> window that comes up, choose the <b>Check for one or more adverse Windows events<\/b> entry from the list:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/service-protector-choose-events-sanity-check.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Choose the check for adverse events sanity check\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/service-protector-choose-events-sanity-check.png\" title=\"Choose the check for adverse events sanity check (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Choose the check for adverse events sanity check\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Click <b>Next<\/b> to move on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>We&#8217;ve arrived at the main configuration page for the sanity check. Choose the Windows Event Log to monitor and enter one or more events to watch out for.<\/p>\n<p>In this screenshot, we&#8217;ve targeted a couple of events in the Security log:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/select-event-log-and-enter-event-ids.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Select the Windows Event Log and the enter the event IDs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/select-event-log-and-enter-event-ids.png\" title=\"Select the Windows Event Log and the enter the event IDs (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Select the Windows Event Log and the enter the event IDs\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Click <b>Next<\/b> to move on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On the following screen, specify how often to check the event log. Every 5 minutes works for our situation:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/specify-how-often-to-check-windows-event-logs.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Specify how often to check the Windows Event logs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/specify-how-often-to-check-windows-event-logs.png\" title=\"Specify how often to check the Windows Event logs (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Specify how often to check the Windows Event logs\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Click <b>Next<\/b> to go to the next page, confirm your settings and complete the process.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">Sorting!<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve installed many services, you can now sort the list of protectors from the header.<\/p>\n<p>Any of the three columns &mdash; <b>Service<\/b>, <b>Service State<\/b> or <b>Protection<\/b> &mdash; can be designated. Simply click the column header to sort your services or to change the direction of the sort. The caret (<b>&and;<\/b> or <b>&or;<\/b>) will show you which column is sorted.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the Protection column is sorted ascending (A-Z) in this screenshot:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/services-sorted-by-protection-ascending.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Services sorted by Protection, ascending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/services-sorted-by-protection-ascending.png\" title=\"Services sorted by Protection, ascending (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Services sorted by Protection, ascending\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Clicking the Protection header again will reverse the sort, to order rows descending (Z-A):<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/services-sorted-by-protection-descending.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Services sorted by Protection, descending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/services-sorted-by-protection-descending.png\" title=\"Services sorted by Protection, descending (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Services sorted by Protection, descending\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Note that the sort order is &#8220;sticky&#8221;, meaning that it&#8217;s remembered across runs of Service Protector.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">Other fixes &amp; improvements<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Full support for the official release of <b>Windows Server 2025<\/b> (build number 26100.2605). Older builds of Service Protector are also compatible with Server 2025, but this one&#8217;s the best so far. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>To help troubleshoot your sanity checks, the <b>full transcript is written to the Windows Event Log<\/b> whenever a sanity check fails. That report will highlight exactly what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you may see a message like this reported when the check website sanity check fails:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/check-website-failed-event-log-record.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"The check website sanity check failed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/check-website-failed-event-log-record.png\" title=\"The check website sanity check failed (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"The check website sanity check failed\" border=\"0\" width=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Happy debugging!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-top:10px\">\nAs usual, please review the <a href=\"\/products\/ServiceProtector\/VersionHistory.html\">release notes<\/a> for the full list of features, fixes and improvements included in Service Protector version 10.5.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">Upgrading to Service Protector 10.5<\/h2>\n<p>If you purchased Service Protector <b>version 9 (after April 2023), you can upgrade to version 10 for free<\/b>. Simply download and install over your existing installation to preserve your existing services and all settings. That way, your registration code will continue to work.<\/p>\n<p>If you bought Service Protector <b>8 or earlier (before April 2023), you will need to upgrade to use version 10<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"\/products\/ServiceProtector\/#buy-upgrade\">buy upgrades here &mdash; at a 50% discount<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the complete <a href=\"\/products\/ServiceProtector\/FAQ.html#Upgrade\">upgrade policy<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top:10px\">Enjoy!<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"cta-button-1\">\n<table role=\"presentation\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/service-protector-tag\/\" title=\"More articles about Service Protector\"><span><nobr>Read more about Service Protector&#8230;<\/nobr><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- relpost-thumb-wrapper --><div class=\"relpost-thumb-wrapper\"><!-- filter-class --><div class=\"relpost-thumb-container\"><style>.relpost-block-single-image, .relpost-post-image { margin-bottom: 10px; }<\/style><h3>You may also like...<\/h3><div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div><div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div><!-- relpost-block-container --><div class=\"relpost-block-container relpost-block-column-layout\" style=\"--relposth-columns: 3;--relposth-columns_t: 2; --relposth-columns_m: 2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/alwaysup\/detect-endless-loop\/\"class=\"relpost-block-single\" ><div class=\"relpost-custom-block-single\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"relpost-block-single-image\" alt=\"Q&amp;A: Why Doesn&#039;t AlwaysUp Catch my Endless Loop?\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/no-infinite-loops-150x150.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\"><\/img><div class=\"relpost-block-single-text\"  style=\"height: 75px;font-family: Arial;  font-size: 12px;  color: #333333;\"><h2 class=\"relpost_card_title\">Q&amp;A: Why Doesn&#039;t AlwaysUp Catch my Endless Loop?<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/company\/eu-cyber-resilience-act\/\"class=\"relpost-block-single\" ><div class=\"relpost-custom-block-single\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"relpost-block-single-image\" alt=\"Q&amp;A: Do You Comply With The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)?\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/eu-cyber-resilience-act-150x150-1.webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\"><\/img><div class=\"relpost-block-single-text\"  style=\"height: 75px;font-family: Arial;  font-size: 12px;  color: #333333;\"><h2 class=\"relpost_card_title\">Q&amp;A: Do You Comply With The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)?<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/alwaysup\/restart-service-no-task-scheduler\/\"class=\"relpost-block-single\" ><div class=\"relpost-custom-block-single\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"relpost-block-single-image\" alt=\"How to Make AlwaysUp Restart your Program Multiple Times per Day (without using the Task Scheduler)\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stopwatch-150x150.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\"><\/img><div class=\"relpost-block-single-text\"  style=\"height: 75px;font-family: Arial;  font-size: 12px;  color: #333333;\"><h2 class=\"relpost_card_title\">How to Make AlwaysUp Restart your Program Multiple Times per Day (without using the Task Scheduler)<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><!-- close relpost-block-container --><div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div><\/div><!-- close filter class --><\/div><!-- close relpost-thumb-wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To cap a very busy 2024, our team released Service Protector 10.5 on December 20. 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