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SharePoint 2016 Central Admin: System Settings - Manage Services On Server

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This is a new series of articles, which will explain the SharePoint 2016 Central admin options. This article is also part of that series.

**Manage Services on Server **(direct /_admin/Server.aspx).

**Note - **You should be logged in with Farm administrator with local admin on the server, otherwise this option will not be visible.

When you click on the "Manage Services" on server link, you will land on Services on the server. This page will give you the information about the services on a single server. This page looks like the same as services in the farm but in a slightly different manner. It's explained below.
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This farm consists of two SharePoint servers, this page list the Services on the individual Server (one you selected). On this page, you will get the option to start a service instance or stop it. The following information will be on the page.

  • ***Service **
    *This column lists all the service instances which are provisioned on this Server, irrespective of their status (Start /Stop). With the MinRole, you will see less service instances over here.

  • **Status **
    This column tells about the status of service instance whether it is stopped or started.

  • Compliant 
    This column also comes with the MinRole feature, this section is controlled by the health analyzer rule, which runs overnight. If health rules dictate the server is not compliant with the configured role, then it will attempt to auto provision all the services which are un-provisioned and also stop the services which are not compliant with the server role to make it compliant. You may notice one thing; compliant section is blank for the custom Role (See the picture above). Custom Role is same as application role in SharePoint 2013. So, don’t be surprised about it.

  • **Action **
    In this column, you will get an option to start or stop a service instance but only for the service instances which are available under assigned server’s MinRole. You get the full option with a custom role but limited for the all other MinRoles.

  • **Server **
    From this drop down, you get any option to change the Server (by default, the Central Admin Server is selected).

  • **Role **
    This box shows the Min role assigned to the Server.

  • **View **
    This dropdown gives us two view options, Configurable and All. By default, Configurable is selected.

How to select different Servers?

How to change the View.

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