Windows Service Timed Action

[suityou01]

fixed it yet?

I can't help thinking you're overlooking something simpler than some kind of coding error. (not that I'd be surprised if it was a coding error of course )
When you say that the shell app and service run in the same security context, what context is that?

Local admin account.

Have you promoted this to full admin?

See above.

Have you added all of the user rights assignments in the local security policy?

Being quite admin-ish, I should have this covered, right?

Have you turned on simple things like full OS event log, object access events, etc?

Sounds noisy. No, not yet. Will foogle.

Is all of the processing local, or is the service trying to connect to resources over the network?

The windows service tries to call web services, remotely. As I say, works in console mode, not in service mode.

How's that recruitment drive going btw?

[d000hg]

fixed it yet?

I can't help thinking you're overlooking something simpler than some kind of coding error.

d000hg's law states "the longer it takes you to figure out a bug, the simpler it will turn out to be and the more of a berk you will look"

[mudskipper]

Unhandled exceptions get written to the event log. Dunno if you have to set something for that to happen?

[eek]

d000hg's law states "the longer it takes you to figure out a bug, the simpler it will turn out to be and the more of a berk you will look"

Yep. It's always best to get the entire team involved early so the blame cannot be pinned on one person

[stek]

In Unixland when we run something like this under cron, we have to be mindful of the the environment the process runs will run under; for example I always use absolute paths since I can't assume the environment when running detached has the same paths/env as the environment I'm testing it under.

Could it be similar in Windows?

[DimPrawn]

Incompetence personified!

[suityou01]

Incompetence personified!

Really.

Finally pinned this sucker down. Anyone care to know the resolution??

[TestMangler]

Really.

Finally pinned this sucker down. Anyone care to know the resolution??

You got someone else to re-write your code ??

[suityou01]

You got someone else to re-write your code ??

No one awesome enough.

[d000hg]

Oh go on then.