Disable Unneeded Windows Services

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Disable Unneeded Windows Services

You have the option to disable services that are not needed by the product. This step is designed to help secure your servers. This step is not required. If the following services are needed for another reason, do not disable them.

If you want to disable unneeded services on the Windows servers in your deployment, use the steps in this topic.

Required/Optional	Servers to Configure
Optional	Any servers (Windows)

Follow these steps:

Log in as a user who has administrator privileges for CA Network Flow Analysis.
Open the Services window: Select Start, Administrative Tools, Services.
The Services window opens.
Right-click the following services and select Manual or Disabled.
Do not select Stop or the services will restart whenever the server is rebooted.

Windows Server Services That You Can Disable

Application Layer Gateway Service	Application Management	Certificate Propagation
Distributed Link Tracking Client	Distributed Transaction Coordinator	DNS Client
Function Discovery Resource Publication	Human Interface Device Access	IP Helper
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Manager	Microsoft Iscsi Initiator Service	Multimedia Class Scheduler
Netlogon	Network List Service	Network Location Awareness
Portable Device Enumerator Service	Print Spooler	Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager	Remote Registry	Resultant Set of Policy Provider
Secondary Logon	Smart Card	Smart Card Removal Policy
Special Administration Console Helper	SSDP Discovery	Tablet PC Input Service
Telephony	Volume Shadow Copy	Windows Audio
Windows Audio Endpoint Builder	Windows CardSpace	Windows Color System
WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service	WMI Performance Adapter