Restarting Disabled Services Remotely

From: Andre (andre_malan_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/24/03 

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:42:03 -0700

That has worked a treat for both my NT4 and XP machines.
As you mention, I have already started looking at the
security aspect. Thanks again.

>-----Original Message-----
>You'll want to play around with the "sc.exe" command,
>which allows you to modify the service database remotely.
>
>Just remember that nothing prevents people from just
>stopping them again if you don't change the underlying
>problems...
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have an issue where developers with admin rights in
my
>>area are stopping & disabling our AntiVirus product
>>service. I have tried remotely & even locally from the
>>prompt (don't want to use the Services GUI) by
importing
>a
>>good registry hive to set the Service state back to
>either
>>Automatic or Manual (either will do) and then trying to
>>start the service - both with NET START and the
>>Sysinternals utility PSSERVICE. Both methods remotely
>and
>>locally give an error as follows:-
>>
>>System error 1058 has occurred.
>>The service cannot be started, either because it is
>>disabled or because it has no enabled devices
associated
>>with it.
>>
>>If you then use the GUI to check on the service status,
>it
>>is set to Auto /Manual but not running. Clicking on the
>>button to Start the service then works.
>>
>>We have a mix of NT4 and XP but I am more concerned
with
>>the XP machines. Any ideas anyone? And no, the
>developers
>>need to keep the admin rights and once we are able to
>>remotely restart these services (without a reboot!) I
>will
>>be switching from 'Interact with the desktop' to a
>>specific admin account only, but that is down the line.
>>Thanks
>>.
>>
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