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Configuring services

Configuring services - Windows Server Tutorial

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Configuring services

Let's go ahead and take a closer look at services. If you remember, we can go to our Local Server tile and we can get a general overview of what's happening with our services right here in this screen. However, also if you remember, from this screen all we are able to do is start and stop services. We are not able to do anything else with them. To get more detail about a service, and to be able to do more to a service, we need to go up here to the Tools menu, and click the Computer Management, and then click the Services and Applications, and finally click the Services. This brings up our Service Manager. As you can see in our Service Manager, if we click a service we can get a lot more information about that service. We can get a detailed description of the service, we can also find out the status of the service, what the startup type for the service is, and what component of a system turned it on. In this case, it was Network Sources that turned on the service. Once we have the…

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