How to disable Server Infrastructure Licensing Service

Symptoms: Critical: Your Hyper-V licensed as Essentials R2 Server shuts down weekly. You observe the log "The process C:\Windows\system32\silsvc.exe [computername] has initiated the power off of computer [computername] on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" or similar, as described here. Non-critical: You receive an error message "The SILSVC should be started automatically but it is stopped"… Continue reading How to disable Server Infrastructure Licensing Service

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Shell Hardware Detection keeps stopping on Server 2012

  Many blogs were written about this phenomenon but it took me three searches to really find the correct answer. Hopefully you landed here right by your first try 🙂 The symptoms: On the Server Manager Dashboard there is a ‘red service’ warning. The service listed is the Shell Hardware Detection service on one (or… Continue reading Shell Hardware Detection keeps stopping on Server 2012