Determine services hosted by a server

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2008-06-02

You can perform a check to identify the different, required, and recommended services that are hosted on a server. This article lists the procedures required to identify the various services hosted on the different servers in a farm.

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Stopping a service can have serious consequences. For example, stopping the Office SharePoint Server Search service causes the service to be uninstalled on the target server and all index files to be destroyed permanently.

Determine services hosted by a server

Use this procedure to determine the different services that are hosted by the server.

Determine services hosted by a server

  1. On the top navigation bar of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Operations.

  2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Services on server.

  3. If the selected server is not the server for which you want view services, on the Services on Server page, click Change server on the Server menu.

    On the Select Server page, click the server for which you want to view services.

  4. To filter the listed services, select one of the following on the View menu:

    • Configurable - Select this to view services that can be stopped or started.

    • All - Select this to view all services that are hosted by the selected server.

    • To stop or start a service, click Start or Stop in the column for the service that you want to start or stop.

  5. A message box appears and prompts you to proceed with the service. Click OK.