Randy Franklin Smith - Articles on Services

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Controlling Service and Batch Job Accounts' Access to Resources. Create a group with all service and batch accounts as members and set a policy that explicitly denies these accounts the logon rights that human users use. <more>

Understanding the Local Service and Network Service Accounts. New security principals in Windows 2003 and XP give services fewer permissions and let them run more securely. <more>

Running Services Under SYSTEM or Administrator. Here's why you should use the least amount of privileges necessary for performing tasks on your computer. <more>

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