Windows Server 2016 (and Windows 10) contain the mysterious "Data Sharing service", which
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happens to crash every now and then, polluting our service logs.
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Apparently, even Microsoft employees don't know what it is and just quote the service description "Provides data brokering between applications"–
What is it? What will break when it is disabled? Can event log messages about it crashing be safely ignored?
Best Answer
Without directly answering the "what is it" question (since I don't personally know), there was a blog post about fixing the crashes at https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcorejp/2016/12/22/collision-between-user-access-logging-service-and-data-sharing-service/ with translation notes at http://www.neighborgeek.net/2017/05/server-2016-data-sharing-service.html that basically comes down to running this service and another service in isolated service processes: