Hi,

Is there a Resource Kit for Windows 2008?  I run SBS 2008 and need to add a 
service.  The only what I know how to do this is with SRVANY.exe.  Is it 
fine to simply install the 2003 kit?

TIA,

Jarryd 

Hi Jarryd,

I could only find this...

srvany.exe does not exist on w2k8 R2: how do I configure a windows Service 
with sc.exe
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2general/thread/2339fb98-ab63-4d1d-913c-318b06e0a837/


Possible workaround...

Application as a Service "srvany.exe" in Windows Server 2008
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverMigration/thread/98a97aee-c62b-4683-94ab-3777899cf7de

------------------------------------------------------------
1.At the time of this posting, there is no Windows Server 2008 Resource Kit 
Tools, so get the "srvany.exe " from the "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit 
Tools " and copy it to a suitable location on your Win2008 server (e.g. 
C:\Windows\System32\ ).
2.Use "sc " to create a new service that launches "srvany " (e.g. sc create 
MyService binPath= C:\Windows\System32\srvany.exe DisplayName= "My Custom 
Service" )
3.Using RegEdit : create a "Parameters " key for your service (e.g. 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MyService\Paramaters\ )
4.Using RegEdit : within the newly created "Parameters " key , create a 
string value called "Application " and enter the full path to the 
application you are wanting to run as a service.  (No quotes required.)

Note : some applications store their settings in a user hive, not under 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, so you will need to run the application to configure it, 
and then configure the service to run as that user.
--------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
Merv  Porter   [SBS-MVP]
============================


"Jarryd" <jarryd@nodomain.com> wrote in message 
news:uo5mlnnHLHA.5700@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Is there a Resource Kit for Windows 2008?  I run SBS 2008 and need to add 
> a service.  The only what I know how to do this is with SRVANY.exe.  Is it 
> fine to simply install the 2003 kit?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jarryd 

Hi Merv,

Thanks for the reply.

"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@no_spam_hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:#OCoiXpHLHA.4120@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Jarryd,
>
> I could only find this...
>
> srvany.exe does not exist on w2k8 R2: how do I configure a windows Service 
> with sc.exe
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2general/thread/2339fb98-ab63-4d1d-913c-318b06e0a837/
>
>
> Possible workaround...
>
> Application as a Service "srvany.exe" in Windows Server 2008
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverMigration/thread/98a97aee-c62b-4683-94ab-3777899cf7de
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 1.At the time of this posting, there is no Windows Server 2008 Resource 
> Kit Tools, so get the "srvany.exe " from the "Windows Server 2003 Resource 
> Kit Tools " and copy it to a suitable location on your Win2008 server 
> (e.g. C:\Windows\System32\ ).
> 2.Use "sc " to create a new service that launches "srvany " (e.g. sc 
> create MyService binPath= C:\Windows\System32\srvany.exe DisplayName= "My 
> Custom Service" )
> 3.Using RegEdit : create a "Parameters " key for your service (e.g. 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MyService\Paramaters\ 
>  )
> 4.Using RegEdit : within the newly created "Parameters " key , create a 
> string value called "Application " and enter the full path to the 
> application you are wanting to run as a service.  (No quotes required.)
>
> Note : some applications store their settings in a user hive, not under 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, so you will need to run the application to configure 
> it, and then configure the service to run as that user.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -- 
> Merv  Porter   [SBS-MVP]
> ============================
>
>
> "Jarryd" <jarryd@nodomain.com> wrote in message 
> news:uo5mlnnHLHA.5700@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a Resource Kit for Windows 2008?  I run SBS 2008 and need to add 
>> a service.  The only what I know how to do this is with SRVANY.exe.  Is 
>> it fine to simply install the 2003 kit?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Jarryd
>