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Services Utility: Internet Authentication Service Service | Display Name (?): | Internet Authentication Service | | Short Name (?): | IAS | | Executable (?): | svchost.exe -k netsvcs | | Library (?): | ias.dll | | Depends On (?): | Remote Procedure Call (RPC) | | Supports (?): | None. | | Description (?): | Enables authentication, authorization and accounting of dial-up and VPN users. IAS supports the RADIUS protocol. | | OS (?): | 2000 Server, Server 2003, Vista Server | | Startup (?): | | Default | Home | Workstation | Server | Minimal | Tweaked | Automatic | | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | Automatic | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | |
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The internet authentication service is a feature of Windows server versions that provides a centralized avenue for external users to authenticate against. This service also allows for auditing of connections. This service is able to authorize for virtual private networking (VPN), remote access servers (RAS), 802.1x wireless, the wired equivilency protocol (WEP), switch access points and allows for remote authentication dial-in-user services (RADIUS) protocols that allows for cross compatability. If this service is disabled other backup IAS servers will perform the task, if they exist. If you wish to use IAS for remote access authentication then you will want to leave this service set to automatic. If you do not wish to use this feature then it is recommended you uninstall it through the add/remove components dialog rather than just disabling it. |
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood. And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair. And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay. In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost: Road Not Taken (1962) |
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