Changeservicestartmode not working?

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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hey guys…

I was working on a fixlet to update the McAfee ePO 4’s rogue sensor service. I have to try to update the sensor EXE quickly, or the McAfee framework will try to restart the service back up. Ok, so I decided to set the service to disabled, which hopefully will give me enough time.

Is it just me, or doesn’t changeservicestartmode.exe work? I’ve tried a few simplier custom actions to try to change any service (like the Themes service) to manual, and it doesn’t do anything under Vista or XP.

For instance…

wait “{pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\changeservicestartmode.exe”}” “Themes” manual

In the BES log it shows…

Command succeeded wait “C:\Program Files\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client__BESData\BES Support\changeservicestartmode.exe” “Themes” manual (fixlet 16789257)

I even tried running the same command manually from a CMD prompt (running CMD as an administrator) and it’s not changing anything. Yes, changeservicestartmode.exe does exist. Version 1.1.0.0. Also tried without having Themes in double-quotes.

Any ideas? Maybe there’s a newer version of that EXE?

-Paul

Here’s my real fixlet’s action…

// Version 2.0.2.112

download http://bigfix.njt.gov:52311/Uploads/0d58e65fcd65fa68e8b521cc7c0f8acfab9850ef/RSSensorexe.tmp

continue if {(size of it = 596813 AND sha1 of it = “0d58e65fcd65fa68e8b521cc7c0f8acfab9850ef”) of file “RSSensorexe.tmp” of folder “__Download”}

extract RSSensorexe.tmp

parameter “rssensorpath” = “{(if exists substring between “%22” of it then substring between “%22” of it else it) of image path of service “RSSensor”}”

wait “{pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\changeservicestartmode.exe”}” “RSSensor” manual

waithidden cmd /C net stop RSSensor

wait “{pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\changeservicestartmode.exe”}” “RSSensor” disabled

delete “{parameter “rssensorpath”}”

move __Download\RSSensor.exe “{parameter “rssensorpath”}”

wait “{pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\changeservicestartmode.exe”}” “RSSensor” auto

waithidden cmd /C net start RSSensor

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Paul-

I am not quite sure what “changeservicestartmode.exe” is, but you can accomplish what you are trying to do with the “sc” command that is included with Windows. Here is what the syntax would look like:

waithidden "sc" config start= disabled

Just switch that to “auto” when you want to turn it back on. Hopefully that helps.

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

I think for Windows 2000, I’ll just have to dig up the SC.exe from the resource kit. The one from XP seems to work ok too.

Thanks

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

FYI: The version of “sc.exe” from Windows XP works fine on Windows 2000 computers, but the version from Windows 2003 does not work on Windows 2000.