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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:30:30+00:00

I’m trying to install windows service using the Microsoft.Sdc.Tasks library. <ControlService Action=Install ServiceName=Service1 User=XXX

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I’m trying to install windows service using the Microsoft.Sdc.Tasks library. 

<ControlService Action='Install'     ServiceName='Service1'     User='XXX     Password='XXX'     ServiceExePath='$(DeployFolder)\XXX.exe'/>

But I keep getting prompted for the user and password! This will not work as I’d like to have it as an automated build on the build server. I mean, the user and password that I want to run the service under are in the actual target. How do I get it to install the service using the configured user and password and not prompt for it?

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  1. Found this post and since all my service does is writing and reading from local file I should be OK running under the Local Service account instead of a specific user. Even after updated the service installer the ControlService-target requires a user and password to run but then I actually doesn’t prompt me for the user and password. But then I don’t want to run a specific user and the target fails when not provided with a user and password in the config … Strange.

    I solved by shelling out to the InstallUtil.exe instead. That works fine after set the I set service installer to run as a Local Service account.

    <Exec WorkingDirectory='C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727'             Command='InstallUtil.exe -i XXX.exe' />
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