Windows services inside Windows Azure Platform
After running the following command line in Windows Azure,
The functionality of "OS Diagnostic Service" is quite straight forward according to its name. But for other two services? Who knows?
net startFollowing running services are returned.
These Windows services are started: Base Filtering Engine Certificate Propagation Cloud Drive CNG Key Isolation COM+ Event System Cryptographic Services DCOM Server Process Launcher DHCP Client Diagnostic Policy Service Distributed Link Tracking Client Distributed Transaction Coordinator DNS Client File Server Resource Manager Group Policy Client Hyper-V Guest Shutdown Service Hyper-V Time Synchronization Service IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules IP Helper IPsec Policy Agent KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator Network List Service Network Location Awareness Network Store Interface Service OS Diagnostic Service Plug and Play RdAgent Remote Access Connection Manager Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Remote Registry Secondary Logon Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service Security Accounts Manager Server Software Licensing System Event Notification Service TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Telephony Terminal Services Terminal Services Configuration Terminal Services UserMode Port Redirector User Profile Service Virtual Disk Windows Error Reporting Service Windows Event Log Windows Firewall Windows Management Instrumentation Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) Windows Time Workstation The command completed successfully.Looks familiar? Sure, because the operating system currently running in an Azure Instance is Windows Server 2008. It is not strange to see so many old faces here. Nevertheless, there are some new services, such as "Cloud Drive", "OS Diagnostic Service" and "RdAgent", with corresponding processes namely clouddrivesvc.exe, osdiag.exe and rdagent.exe.
The functionality of "OS Diagnostic Service" is quite straight forward according to its name. But for other two services? Who knows?