ISA Server control service

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The Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server control service (mspadmin) is a Windows 2000 service that is responsible for:

  • Restarting other ISA Server services, as necessary.

  • Generating alerts and running actions.

  • Synchronizing each member server's configuration with the array.

  • Updating the client configuration files (msplat.txt and mspclnt.ini).

  • Deleting unused log files.

You cannot use ISA Management to stop or start the ISA Server control service. To stop the service, type the following at a command prompt:

net stop mspadmin 

If you stop the ISA Server control service, all the other ISA Server services will also be stopped.