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The Deep description on Windows Services

We have tried our best efforts to explore the deepth of windows services and all the given information is gathered from Microsoft notes (As its microsoft product)


34.Service Name:- IISADMIN
Executable Name:-inetinfo.exe
Log On As:-LocalSystem
Description:-IIS Admin service manages the IIS metabase and updates the Microsoft Windows operating system registry for the WWW service, FTP service, SMTP service, and NNTP service. The metabase is a data store that holds IIS configuration data. IIS Admin service exposes the metabase to other applications, including the core components of IIS, applications that are built on IIS, and third-party applications that are independent of IIS, such as management or monitoring tools. IIS Admin service runs as Iisadmin.dll and is hosted by Inetinfo.exe This service allows administration of Microsoft Internet Information Server components such as FTP, Applications Pools, Web sites, Web service extensions and both NNTP and SMTP virtual servers.
If this service is stopped or disabled, you will not be able to run Web, FTP, Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) sites, nor configure IIS and the MMC IIS snap-in will appear blank.
On Windows 2000, the IIS Admin service and related services were installed by default. On the Windows Server 2003 family, IIS must be installed using Add/Remove Windows Components or Configure Your Server, Manage Your Server..
See also World Wide Web Publishing Service, FTP Publishing Service, HTTP SSL, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) services.
Avaliable on OS:-: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition and Windows Server 2003, Web Edition.
Installed through:-Default on Windows Server 2003, Web Edition. On Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition, the IIS Admin service must be added via Add\Remove Windows Components, Application Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), Configure Your Server or Manage Your Server.
Startup type:-Automatic
Service status:-Started
This service depends on the following system components:-Remote Procedure Call,Security Accounts Manager
The following system components depend on this service:- FTP Publishing Service, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), World Wide Web Publishing Service, HTTP SSL, Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), Microsoft POP3 Service
Port Numbers used:-TCP: 80

35.Service Name:-ImapiService
Executable Name:-imapi.exe
Log On As:-LocalSystem
Description:-This service manages burning CDs through the IMAPI (Image Mastering Applications Programming Interface) COM interface and performs CD-R writes when requested by the user through Windows explorer, WMP (Windows Media Player) or 3rd party applications which use this API.
The Image Mastering API (IMAPI) allows an application to stage and burn a simple audio or data image to CD-R and CD-RW devices. The API supports the following formats: Redbook audio and data discs with both Joliet and ISO 9660. The architecture allows for future expansion of the supported format set.
Stopping or disabling this service may prevent burning a CD-R. If a 3rd party CD-RW application is used, turning off this service may not impact recording to CD-R. If this service is started after log on, you must log off your computer in order to write data to CD-R media via your CD-R using Windows Explorer.
Avaliable on OS:-Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition and Windows Server 2003, Web Edition.
Installed through:-Default operating system installation
Startup type:-Disabled
Service status:-Stopped
This service depends on the following system components:-None
The following system components depend on this service:- None
Port Numbers used:-None

36.Service Name:-cisvc
Executable Name:-cisvc.exe
Log On As:-LocalSystem
Description:-Indexes contents and properties of files on local and remote computers and provides rapid access to files through a flexible querying language. It also enables quick searching of documents on local and remote computers and a search index for content shared on the Web. The Indexing Service builds indexes of all textual information in files and documents. Once the initial index build is complete, the Indexing Service maintains its indexes whenever a file is created, modified, or deleted.
Initial indexing can be resource-intensive. On Windows, the Indexing Service will index only when this service is started and the computer is idle. Using the MMC Indexing Service snap in, allows the configuration of resource allocation which are optimized for query or indexing usage patterns.
If this service is stopped or disabled, all search functionality is provided by traversing the folder hierarchy and scanning each file for the requested string and search responses will be slower. If the MMC Indexing Service snap in is used to create a new catalog, the catalog will remain offline until this service is started.
Avaliable on OS:-: Windows XP Home, Professional; Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition and Windows Server 2003, Web Edition.
Installed through:-Default operating system installation
Startup type:-Manual
Service status:-Stopped, will start when using Configure Your Server/Manage Your Server to configure the File Server role.
This service depends on the following system components:-Remote Procedure Call
The following system components depend on this service:- None
Port Numbers used:-None