Install a bat file or cmd script as service on a Windows Server machine.

Install a bat file or cmd script as service on a Windows Server machine.

To install a Bat file or CMD script as a Service we would need a small Microsoft utility called srvany.exe which is part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit tools and can be downloaded free from Microsoft Download center here.

Steps:

·        Download Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit tools from here and install it on any server.

·        Create a folder on your server ex C:\YourServiceName

·        Just copy srvany.exe to C:\YourServiceName from the location where Resource Kit tools were installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\), after this step Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit tools can be uninstalled as it is no longer needed.

·        Launch CMD as Administrator.

·        Type following Command which will install a service named YourServiceName on the server

 sc create YourServiceName binpath= C:\YourServiceName\srvany.exe DisplayName= "Your Service Name"

·        Open Registry editor by Clicking Start > regedit

·        Navigate to following location and right click and create a New key named YourServiceName

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\YourServiceName

·        Right Click on YourServiceName  and Create another key named Parameters under that.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\YourServiceName\Parameters

·        Under Parameters Right Click in the righthand pane and select New String Value named Application Under that.

·        Double Click the String Value named Application mention the Path of your bat file/cmd script there.

At this point we are done and we can now start the service and set the mode of the service to Automatic/Manual or whatever we want as per our need and the service will keep running which in background will run the Batch file/CMD Script continuously.