Vista's IPsec Policy Agent Service

May 11th, 2007 · Leave a Comment · 2,146 views
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Services The IPsec Policy Agent retrieves policy information from Active Directory, or from the local registry, and distributes it to other components that make use of the policy information. The typical home user does not need this service, and can safely disable it. Enterprise users, or those that use a VPN will want to leave this one as is.

Display Name:

IPsec Policy Agent

Service Name:

PolicyAgent

Process Name:

svchost.exe

Description:

Internet Protocol security (IPsec) supports network-level peer authentication, data origin authentication, data integrity, data confidentiality (encryption), and replay protection. This service enforces IPsec policies created through the IP Security Policies snap-in or the command-line tool “netsh ipsec”. If you stop this service, you may experience network connectivity issues if your policy requires that connections use IPsec. Also, remote management of Windows Firewall is not available when this service is stopped.

Path to Executable:

%windir%\system32\svchost.exe -k NetworkServiceNetworkRestricted

Default Startup:

Home Basic: Automatic
Home Premium: Automatic
Business: Automatic
Enterprise: Automatic
Ultimate: Automatic

Log On As:

Network Service

Desktop Interaction:

Depends On:

Base Filtering Engine
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
  - DCOM Server Process Launcher

Required For:

None

Memory:

N/A

CPU:

N/A

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