Emby Service Removed on Windows Creators Update install

[Chuck 17]

After running the Windows Creators update today, it looks like the emby server service is removed.

 

I tried reinstalling emby, but the service is still not there.

 

Is there a way to manually install the emby service?

[Luke 42089]

Yes the creators update removes it for whatever reason, but we are no longer embedding a windows service.

 

Instead we have new guidelines on how to set one up:

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Running%20Emby%20Server%20as%20a%20Windows%20Service

 

Let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[Chuck 17]

Well, I was just about to run sc.exe create when I saw your reply.  But, NSSM seemed to work.  It installed the service, and I was able to go into the Service Control Manager, set to automatic start, and add credentials so that the service could still access network resources.

 

Is there a reason for using NSSM as opposed to sc.exe?

[Happy2Play 9785]

During testing of the net core version the service wouldn't work using sc.exe. So the nssm route was taken.

[Luke 42089]

sc.exe requires that the application have a windows service embedded. We don't want to do that anymore which is why we're going the NSSM route.