Hi,To satisfy an audit requirement, I'm trying to locate a definitive list of non-Exchange Windows 2008 Services required for Exchange 2007 server roles and their required startup status e.g 'Background Intelligent Transfer Service Status';'COM+ Event Services Status'; etc.Our auditors require that any services notessential toa server role are either uninstalled, disabled or have a documented justification. I need to take informed actions to provide audit compliance on production systems so a 'try it & see if it breaks' approach isn't acceptable.I think I've searched pretty comprehensively on all the usual web sources of Exchange info but can only find lists of services installed by Exchange 2007 which isn't quite the same thing.Thanks for any information anyone can offer.

Unfortunately, per my research, theres no official article about the required windows server 2008 services for exchange 2007 Yet, we can still gather some useful info. First, to build a lab that exactly like the one you will deploy in the product environment. And then, run the commands below on the exchange 2007 server to enumerate all running services by default. I think those are the ones you shall consider to enable sc query > c:\sc.txt

Thanks for the reply,Mmmm, it's a pity that a list doesn't exist, it would be a useful security & troubleshooting resource. I don't currently have the hardware, timeor manpower resources to build a test lab, so we'll have to write up a list of audit exceptions for the most obvious service dependencies & risk disabling the rest.