Appendix

Earlier in this chapter, we showed you how to install a Windows service on your development machine. This approach was a simplified method that might not work for environments outside your machine. So, here is a more advanced way of configuring an app as a Windows service.

Installing your app as a Windows service – the advanced method

For production use, it is likely that permissions are more fine-grained and locked down. Perform the following steps instead to set up an app as a service:

1. Log on to the Windows server where you will deploy the service.
2. Open a PowerShell prompt, and run the following command: New-LocalUser -Name dotnetworker.
3. You need to grant permissions to the service account you just created in order to enable it to start the services. Follow these steps:

   a. Open the Local Security Policy editor by running secpol.msc.

   b. Expand the Local Policies node and select User Rights Assignment.

   c. Open the Login as a service policy.

   d. Select...