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I have coded a simple c# windows service.If its installed using installutil ,will the service be available for all users of the system?
In case of server operating system,under what account the service should be installed so that it will start automatically on server startup?
Please throw some light on this.
I don't think you are necessarily doing anything wrong. Sounds like another service it depends on hasn't fully started yet. It is possible that any dependencies are not configured at all. It also appears that the service requires full admin to run.
As a workaround, I would configure the service properties this way:
It's not the most elegant solution, but if it's purely an issue due to permissions and timing, this should resolve it.
Best Answer
Yes. Ordinary Windows services are inherently global; it makes no difference which account was used to install the service. So far as I'm aware, Windows doesn't even record that information.
You do need to have administrator privilege in order to install a service.
To configure a service to start automatically with Windows, configure the service start type appropriately. See step 5 in How to: Add Installers to Your Service Application.
Addendum: if the service is running in a domain account, it might in some situations be necessary to configure the service for a delayed start. This answer explains how to do that in .NET. If the service runs normally when started manually but generates "invalid username or password" type errors when starting automatically, configuring it for delayed start may help. I'm not sure yet of the underlying cause of the problem.
(If a service uses the
SERVICE_USER_OWN_PROCESSorSERVICE_USER_SHARE_PROCESStype, then there are separate instances of the service for each logged on user, and the behaviour of this sort of service does not appear to be properly documented. However, I believe the answer is the same: the installation is still global and it still makes no difference which account installs the service.)