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Now that you have configured the services via group policy you will need to reboot the computer for the new startup mode to take affect.

Tip: Tick “Start, stop and pause” for INTERACTIVE if you want the logged on user to control the services. This would be useful if you want to give end users the ability to start and stop specific services. If you click on the “Edit Security…” button you can also configured who has control over the service. From the menu click on Action > Properties then tick “Define this policy setting” and then configured the service startup mode to what you want it configured. This is a painful restriction of controlling services this way and Note: If the service that you want to configure is not present in the list you will need to install GPMC on a computer that has the service running. Select the services that you want to configure. Edit a computer Group Policy Object that is targeted at the computer that you want to configure

Now that you can control service using Group Policy Preference there are only two reason that you will still want to use this method. If you want to learn more about AppLocker then check out my other post Using Group Policy to configured a ServiceĮven since Group Policy was introduced to Windows 2000 you have been able to configured some aspects of services using native group policy. In the examples below I am going to show you how to enable the “Applications Identification” service that is required to be enabled to make AppLocker work in Windows 7. Inversely it is also very important to have the ability to turn on services to enable certain functionality or to ensure that certain services are not turned off.īelow I will go through the two ways you can control services in windows by using Group Policy each ways has its own advantages and/disadvantages but together you can pretty much control any system service the way you want. Quite often disabling services on a computer is the best way to reduce the security surface of a computer or to improve performance by turning off un-used components of the OS. Therefore the ability to control Windows Services is a vita task for IT administrators. Without services computer could not perform automatic updates, run scheduled tasks or even connect to a file share. They are essential part of windows and are essential to the operation of any windows computers. Services are programs that are configured to run in the background of a Windows computer weather or not there is a users that is logged on.