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SharePoint 2010 Service Manager

With the final release of SharePoint 2010, I finally had time to brush-up and release the Service Manager that I wrote sometime back when the 2010 betas was released.

This utility is basically akin to the SQL Server Service Manager of yore.

If you have SharePoint 2010 installed on your local Windows 7 workstation then you will definitely come across instances where your workstation suddenly freezes up and everything starts moving in slow motion. The most likely culprit is usually one of the SharePoint services. At other times the SharePoint services simply eat away at your RAM.

That’s where the SharePoint 2010 Service Manager comes into play. It lets you start and stop all the SharePoint Services running on your workstation with a single-click.

This release handles both the full version of SQL Server as well as SQL Express Edition (the SharePoint instance). There is also an option to permanently disable the SharePoint services from starting up when Windows starts up, hopefully leading to faster boot times.

Here are a couple of screenshots. Get the setup file from CodePlex at http://sharepointserviceman.codeplex.com/.

I’d like to thank my colleagues at UniqueWorld including Neil, Rehman and Dougie who tested the first version and gave valuable feedback.

Please do report any issues you find to merill at merill.net

  1. May 25th, 2010 at 06:02 | #1

    Thanks a lot Merill. Really helpful.

  2. May 29th, 2010 at 05:17 | #2

    Great tool Merril. I've got one little problem with it. It's like this: I do a lot of database development. I have configured the same database server for SharePoint as well, hence I have to keep the relevant SQL Server services alive when I shutdown the SharePoint services. Is there a little fix you can do about that?

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  4. August 11th, 2010 at 06:38 | #4

    Nice little utility…. Will come in very handy for me as I use SharePoint 2010 in Windows 7. :)

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