Service name Display name Comments

W3SVC World Wide This service is required and must be started.

Web Publishing
Service

MSExchangeADTopolog Microsoft This service provides Active Directory topology

y Exchange Active information to several Exchange Server components. This
Directory service doesn't have any dependencies.
Topology
Service

POP3Svc Microsoft By default, this service is stopped. For clients to use POP3
Exchange POP3 to connect to Microsoft Exchange, this service must be
started. This service depends on the Microsoft
Exchange Active Directory Topology service.

IMAP4Svc Microsoft By default, this service is stopped. For clients to use IMAP4
Exchange IMAP4 to connect to Microsoft Exchange, this service must be
started. This service depends on the Microsoft
Exchange Active Directory Topology service.

IISAdmin Internet This service manages the Internet Information Services

Information (IIS) metabase and provides support for the World Wide
Services Admin Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) service, the POP3
Service service, and the IMAP4 service. These services are required
by the Client Access server. IIS Admin also supports other
applications, such as the metabase update service, which
is an internal component of the system attendant.

MSExchangeServiceHost Microsoft This service configures the /rpc virtual directory in IIS and
Exchange registry data for Outlook Anywhere. This service depends
Service Host on the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology
service.

MSExchangeFDS Microsoft This service is used to distribute offline address book and
Exchange File custom Unified Messaging prompts. This service depends
Distribution on the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology
Service service.