Question

Is there any way to restrict users with administrative privileges from managing specific Windows service based applications? I would like to restrict administrators from stopping or re-starting my service very similar to the Windows event log service. What are some of the more popular approaches or recommended approaches to securing services followed by product vendors (like antivirus applications, firewalls etc where the service has to be running continuously)?

Answer 1

Here is one approach using access control – http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=288129