C Basics Creating a Windows Service. February 2. 8, 2. Christoff Truter. C. Windows services are basically long running executables that performs certain functions services that doesnt. ASP. net State Service, indexing service. You can manage these services within your services management console, we can startstoppause etc these. The basic structure of a service within the. C, looks something like this. System. Service. Process. System. Threading. Service. class Service Service. Base. static void Main. Service. Base. Runnew Service. Service. Thread thread new ThreadActions. Start. public void Actions. Thread. Sleep5. 00. Notice that we inherited from Service. Base, you can find this class within. System. Service. Process assembly namespace. Images/Tutoriales/WinServ/2.jpg' alt='How To Install Windows Service Without Installutil Exe' title='How To Install Windows Service Without Installutil Exe' />Within our entry point void Main, we call a static. Run from our Service. Base class and pass an instance of our service to the method, you. Array instances of classes derived from Service. Here Mudassar Ahmed Khan has explained a tutorial to create a simple Windows Service with sample example in C and VB. Net. Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http For a list of updates at carlstalhood. Note To be safe, rightclick CWindowsSetupScriptskmsdirkmssetup. Properties. Make sure the file is not blocked. If it is it will not run. Base to this method e. You will also notice that Ive created a thread within the constructor, this becomes necessary since our service needs to. Notice what happens when you call the actions method directly from within the constructor without using a thread. There is also a number of methods one can override within the derived class, onstoponshutdownonpauseoncontinue etc. These events wont be raised automatically though, we need to enable them, like seen in the following snippet. Can. Shutdown true. Can. Stop true. Can. Handle. Power. Event true. To deployinstall this service to a serverpc, create a class inheriting from the installer class. System. Configuration. Install assembly like this. System. Component. Model. using System. I5KbV.png' alt='How To Install Windows Service Without Installutil Exe' title='How To Install Windows Service Without Installutil Exe' />Last Updated April 30, 2016. Heres 14 years worth of jumbled C recipes and notes arranged randomly in a stream of consciousness mode. Some methods are superseded. Run Windows Service as a console program Posted 20070815 Last updated 20120418. Visual Studio and the. NET framework make it really easy to create Windows Services. SmartPCFixer is a fully featured and easytouse system optimization suite. With it, you can clean windows registry, remove cache files, fix errors, defrag disk. I use VS 2012 and since the setup projects have been removed from it I have to use InstallUtil. I dont have projectInstaller class in my windows service app. I. A quick look at how to create a windows service using C. Configuration. Install. System. Service. Process. Run. Installertrue. Figure5.PNG' alt='How To Install Windows Service Without Installutil Exe' title='How To Install Windows Service Without Installutil Exe' />Service. Installer Installer. Service. Installer. Service. Process. Installer service. Process. Installer new Service. Process. Installer. Service. Installer service. Installer new Service. Installer. service. Process. Installer. Account Service. Account. Local. System. Installer. Display. Name my. Service. Installer. Start. Type Service. Start. Mode. Automatic. Installer. Service. Name my. Service. Installers. Addservice. Process. Installer. Installers. Addservice. Installer. You can install the service via a batch file using the following commands. SET PATHpath windirMicrosoft. NETFrameworkv. 2. REM Uninstall the Service if it exists already. Install. Util u my. Service. exe. REM Install the Service. Install. Util i my. Service. exe. REM Start the Service once were done. Service. Alternatively one can create a. NET installer via Visual Studio e. Add New Project. Setup and Deployment. Setup Project. Add service primary output. Add the primary output of the solution containing the installer class to the install uninstall. Some tips Debugging I heard a lot of people complaining about how difficult it is to debug a service, since we cant just simply. Debugger. Break one of the lovely System. Diagnostics methods to our. Visual Studio for example. Remember to set interact with desktop within the properties of your service from the services management console. Registry Something else to consider, when using the registry within services, is that generally we use a local system account the logon for the service. Generally you can access keys from the HKEYUSERS. DEFAULT key. Remote Desktop When the Allow Service to interact with desktop checkbox is ticked and youre attempting. UI will only appear in. XP2. 00. 3mstsc admin Vista72. Manually remove service. SC delete my. Service. Provisioning Services 7. Server Install Carl Stalhood. Navigation. This article applies to all versions of Provisioning Services. Recently Updated. Planning. CTX2. 20. Best Practices for deploying PVS in multi geo environments ensure that PVS farms do not span data centers with a network latency that can affect communications between the PVS Servers and the SQL database. Pv. S Firewall Rules. Download Provisioning Services 7. If you are running Xen. AppXen. Desktop 7. LTSR, then youll want Provisioning Services 7. Provisioning Services 7. The install instructions are essentially the same. Citrix License Server Version. Make sure the Citrix Licensing server is 1. Upgrade. If you are upgrading from an older version of Provisioning Services, do the following In place upgrade the Citrix License Server. In place upgrade the Provisioning Services Console. Re register the Citrix. PVS. snapin. dll snap in. C WindowsMicrosoft. NETFramework. 64v. Install. Util. exe c program filescitrixprovisioning services consoleCitrix. PVS. snapin. dllIn place upgrade the Provisioning Services Server. If you have two or more Pv. S servers, upgrade one, and then the other. If High Availability is configured correctly, then the Target Devices should move to a different Pv. S Server while a Pv. S server is being upgraded. After the first Pv. S server is upgraded, run the Configuration Wizard. You can generally just click Next through the wizard. At the end, youll be prompted to upgrade the database. Then upgrade the remaining Pv. S servers, and run the Config Wizard on each of them too. Upgrade the Target Device Software inside each v. Disk. Dont do this until the Pv. S servers are upgraded Target Device Software must be same version or older than the Pv. S Servers. If your Target Devices are 7. Maintenance version, boot an Updater Target Device, and in place upgrade the Target Device Software. If your Target Devices are older, then you must reverse image. Disk Storage. Do the following on both Pv. S Servers. The v. Disks will be stored locally on both servers. You must synchronize the files on the two servers either manually e. Robocopy, or automatically e. DFS Replication. Create D Drive. In the v. Sphere Web Client, edit the settings for each of the Provisioning Services server virtual machines. On the bottom, use the drop down list to select New Hard Disk, and click Add. Expand the New Hard disk by clicking the arrow next to it. Change the disk size to 5. GB or higher. It needs to be large enough to store the v. Disks. Each full v. Disk is 4. 0 GB plus a chain of snapshots. Additional space is needed to merge the chain. Feel free to select Thin provision, if desired. Click OK when done. Login to the session host. Right click the Start Button, and click Disk Management. In the Action menu, click Rescan Disks. On the bottom right, right click the CD ROM partition, and click Change Drive Letters and Paths. Click Change. Change the drive letter to E, and click OK. Click Yes when asked to continue. Right click Disk 1 and click Online. Right click Disk 1 and click Initialize Disk. Click OK to initialize the disk. Right click the Unallocated space, and click New Simple Volume. In the Welcome to the New Simple Volume Wizard page, click Next. In the Specify Volume Size page, click Next. In the Assign Drive Letter or Path page, select D and click Next. In the Format Partition page, change the Volume label to v. Disks and click Next. In the Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard page, click Finish. If you see a pop up asking you to format the disk, click Cancel since Disk Management is already doing that. Disk Folders. On the new D partition, create one folder per Delivery Group. For example, create one called Win. Common, and create another folder called Win. SAP. Each v. Disk is composed of several files, so its best to place each v. Disk in a separate folder. Each Delivery Group is usually a different v. Disk. Robocopy Script. Here is a sample robocopy statement to copy v. Disk files from one Provisioning Services server to another. It excludes. lok files and excludes the Write. Cache folders. REM Robocopy from PVS0. PVS0. 2. REM Deletes files from other server if not present on local server. Robocopy D v. Disks pvs. Disks. vhd vhdx Write. Cache xo. Citrix Blog Post v. Disk Replicator Tool has a Power. Shell script with a GUI that can replicate v. Disks between Pv. S Sites and between Pv. S Farms.  Version 2. Github supports Intra site replication. Service Account. Provisioning Services should run as a domain account that is in the local administrators group on both Provisioning Services servers. This is required for KMS Licensing. From Considerations Provisioning Services for Personal v. Disk at Citrix Docs The Provisioning Services Soap Service account must be added to the Administrator node of Citrix Studio and must have the Machine Administrator or higher role. This ensures that the Pv. D desktops are put into the Preparing state when the Provisioning Services PVS v. Disk is promoted to production. NET Framework 3. 5 SP1 4. R2 Only. Provisioning Server on Windows Server 2. Unzip Files Windows Command Line. R2 requires. NET Framework 3. SP1 to be installed prior to installing Provisioning Server. On each Provisioning Server, in Server Manager, right click Features and click Add Features. In the Select Features page, check the box next to. NET Framework 3. 5. Next. In the Confirm Installation Selections page, click Install. In the Installation Results page, click Close. NET Framework 4. 0 has bug. Upgrade to 4. 5. More information at All the target devices are not selected when using shift select within the PVS console to select a number of target devices. NET Framework 4. 5. Windows Update or you can download it from Microsoft. Provisioning Services Console 7. The installation and administration of Provisioning Services 7. If you want to automate the installation and configuration of Provisioning Services, see Dennis Span Citrix Provisioning Server unattended installation. Dennis Smith at Citrix Provisioning Services automatedunattended installation guide also details how to script the installation and configuration of Microsoft DHCP Server. To manually install Provisioning Services Console, or in place upgrade to Provisioning Services Console 7. Go to the downloaded Provisioning Services 7. Console folder run PVSConsolex. If you are running Xen. AppXen. Desktop 7. LTSR, then youll want Provisioning Services 7. Provisioning Services 7. The install instructions are essentially the same. Click Install. In the Welcome to the Install. Shield Wizard for Citrix Provisioning Services Console x. Next. In the License Agreement page, select I accept the terms, and click Next. In the Customer Information page, click Next. In the Destination Folder page, click Next. In the Ready to Install the Program page, click Install. In the Install. Shield Wizard Completed page, click Finish. Provisioning Server 7. Server Install. The installation and administration of Provisioning Services 7. You can in place upgrade to Provisioning Services Server 7. The Servers must be upgraded before the v. Disks are upgraded. While upgrading one Provisioning Services Server, all Target Devices are moved to the other Provisioning Services Server. To install Provisioning Services server If v. Sphere, make sure the Provisioning Services server virtual machine Network Adapter Type is VMXNET 3. Go to the downloaded Provisioning Services 7. Server folder, run PVSServerx. If you are running Xen.