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Windows Local System, Network and Local Service accounts and network access

I always thought that the Local System account cannot access the network resources. I thought that Network Service is meant for that. And I was not the only one. But recently, I accidentally found out that this is not quite true.

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How to run an application as a Windows service

If you ever wanted to run an application as a Windows service, maybe you tried to simply create the service with the main executable of the application. And then you found out that it won’t work. The reason is that in Windows, a service process has to communicate with the SCM (Windows Service Manager). Otherwise […]

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