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In order to publish a Windows Application as a service, Microsoft has provided two utilities as part of the Windows Resoruce Kit.

• Instrsrv.exe - installs and removes system services from Windows NT
• Srvany.exe - allows any Windows NT application to run as a service.

To create a Windows NT user-defined service, perform the following steps:

1. At a MS-DOS command prompt(running CMD.EXE), type the following command:

In Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008, you can no longer connect to the console terminal services session using the /console switch or the "Remote Desktops" tool which is part for the Admin Tools.

To connect to the console session you will need to use the /admin switch as below:

mstsc.exe /admin

In order to migrate an existing SMF Forum to Drupal you need to first migrate to phpBB as there is no direct migrate tool at present.

To migrate see this support forum entry:

http://drupal.org/node/54677

Here are the direct links to each tool required to make the migration:

1. converting your SMF forum to PHPBB ( http://www.google.com/search?q=smf+site%3Aphpbb.com )