Articles Tagged “Windows Service”
3 articles tagged “Windows Service”, newest first.
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Choosing a Windows Service Account — LocalSystem, Virtual Accounts, and gMSA
Are you still running a Windows service as LocalSystem? This article compares the privileges and network identity of LocalService, NetworkService, virtual ac...
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Pitfalls of Network Drives and UNC Paths — Working With File Servers (Shared Folders) From a Business Application
This article organizes the classic problems that show up when a business application writes to or watches a shared folder: why a drive letter (Z:) is invisib...
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How to Build and Operate Windows Services ── From Choosing Between Task Scheduler and Services to Turning a BackgroundService into a Windows Service
Should a background process become a Windows service, or is Task Scheduler enough? This guide organizes the practical design work for putting a service into ...