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Effects of Pausing a Service

Article ID: 110061

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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SUMMARY

Some services (such as NetLogon, Server, and Workstation) have the option of being paused or stopped. You may expect that no connections would be effected when you pause a service, but there may be other consequences. Details on the effects of pausing a service are not included in the System Guide.

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For example, when you pause the Server service, the results are:

  • It does not affect the connections of the existing users.
  • It does not allow new connections to the server for users with user level privilege even if you have an established session to this server before the server was paused.
  • It allows new connection to users who are members of the DomainAdmins, Administrators, and Power Users groups.
The behavior of a service when it is paused depends on the service, but mostly revolve around granting special privileges to accounts belonging to privileged groups.

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