Ginesys Cloud deployed instances, of Ginesys Head-Office application, don’t allow users to logon with Administrator level access on the Windows operating system, this is obvious restriction for a managed infrastructure or SaaS offering. Non-admin standard login has limited access on the OS management and application management. One of such several limitations is inability to start or stop of Windows Services. Ginesys has multiple Window Services and there are situations where these services are required to be started / stopped / restarted. In Ginesys Cloud deployments, for explicit privilege given, users are allowed to operate Windows services when required.

Steps for operating Windows Services of Ginesys:

1. Open ‘Services’, Windows service manager. Go to RUN → Type Services.msc → Enter.

2. Find the below mentioned services → Right click on any of them and choose Restart or Stop or Start as required.

List of Ginesys Services

• GINESYS Data Sync Service.

• GINESYS Licensing Service.

• GINESYS Planning Service.

• GINESYS SMS Notification Service.

• GINESYS SMTP Mail Service.

• GinesysReportScheduler.

• World Wide Web Publishing Service (Ginesys Web Service)

How to restart Ginesys License service on Ginesys Cloud after updating the License?

1. Open Ginesys License Manager utility and update the license.

2. Follow the above steps. Find and restart the service named GINESYS Licensing Service

How to restart IIS (Web Server) if required by Ginesys maintenance team while working on any reported issue?

The popular way to restart Windows Web Service or IIS is by using Command Prompt. But this requires the Command Prompt to be opened in Administrator mode (elevated). The alternate way is restart the related Windows Service World Wide Web Publishing Service.

1. Follow the above steps.

2. Find and restart the service named World Wide Web Publishing Service

This has the same result as the command IISRESET has.