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Which services should I disable?

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by falvarado 1 view

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Hi all,

I wanted to know which services are safe to disable on a NT server. For example, a BDC that is not serving as a Print Server can have the spooler service disabled. With this in mind, what other services can I disable on a DC or standalone server without messing anything up?

Thanx!

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by b.snel

That's a matter of tria-and-error. In other words: try stopping services one by one. After any stopped service you must check whter te system still works. The only two services that you SHOULD NOT STOP are SERVER and WORKSTATION services. Stopping either one will result in an unresponsive server.

by ronnonf

One more service you should not stop is NETLOGON since this handles the syncing between machines.

FTP, WWW, GOPHER

by saw100274

Actually you can stop Server and Workstation services if all you need is a webserver. Don't know if this is true with IIS, but who would use that anyways?

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