With the new version, we get new features and functionality. The following lists off the services available with SharePoint 2013 Enterprise, and briefly explains what they do. I made this for my own reference, but thought I’d share.
I’ve also added links to TechNet articles on how to install/configure. There is a great article which covers these services, and how they could be deployed on an ideal farm topology http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219591.aspx.
Enjoy!
Access Database Service 2010
Access Services 2010 is a service application that allows users to modify and publish in SharePoint Server 2013 an Access web database that was previously created in SharePoint Server 2010. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748653.aspx
Access Services
Access Services enables you to create and customize Access apps for SharePoint. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj714714.aspx
App Management Service
App Management Service is part of the new App support within SharePoint 2013. This service, along with the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service, have to be configured properly to support the new App model. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx#ConfigureAppServices
Business Data Connectivity Service
Business Data Connectivity Service allows you to pull in external data sources into SharePoint, and treat them much like a normal SharePoint list. This allows businesses to connect to existing line of business applications with minimal effort. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681491.aspx
Central Administration
This service is what provides Central Administration on the server. Make sure at least one server in your farm has this running. I don’t know if you can stop this on all servers, I haven’t tried, and I don’t recommend it!
Claims to Windows Token Service
The Claims to Windows Token Service (c2WTS) is a feature of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). The c2WTS extracts user principal name (UPN) claims from non-Windows security tokens, such as SAML and X.509 tokens, and generates impersonation-level Windows security tokens. This allows a relying party application to impersonate the user. This might be needed to access back-end resources, such as Microsoft SQL Servers, that are external to the computer running the relying party application. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee539091.aspx
Distributed Cache
The Distributed Cache service provides caching features in SharePoint Server 2013. The microblog features and feeds rely on the Distributed Cache to store data for very fast retrieval across all entities. The Distributed Cache service is built on Windows Server AppFabric, which implements the AppFabric Caching service. Windows Server AppFabric installs with the prerequisites for SharePoint Server 2013. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219700.aspx#cache http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219613.aspx
Document Conversions Launcher Service
This service schedules and initiates the document conversions. When SharePoint Foundation passes a document conversion request to the document conversion launcher service, the service must call the appropriate document converter. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979484(v=office.14).aspx
Document Conversions Load Balancer Service
This service balances the document conversion requests from across the server farm. When it receives a converter request from SharePoint Foundation, the document conversion load balancer service must return a URI to the appropriate document conversion launcher service. SharePoint Foundation connects to the specified launcher via .NET Remoting and requests that it convert the specified document. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979484(v=office.14).aspx
Excel Calculation Services
Excel Services is a SharePoint Server 2013 service application that allows users to share and view Excel workbooks. The service application also enables data-connected Excel workbooks and work sheets to be refreshed and updated from a variety of data sources. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219698.aspx
Lotus Notes Connector
Lotus Notes Connector provides connectivity for search to crawl Lotus Notes content within a Domino database. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591606.aspx
Machine Translation Service
Machine Translation Service provides automatic machine translation of files and sites. When the Machine Translation Service application processes a translation request, it forwards the request to a cloud-hosted machine translation service, where the actual translation work is performed. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163145.aspx
Managed Metadata Web Service
The managed metadata service application makes it possible to use managed metadata and share content types across site collections and web applications. A managed metadata service publishes a term store and, optionally, content types; a managed metadata connection consumes these. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424403.aspx
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Incoming E-Mail
The Incoming E-Mail service allows for users to send emails to libraries within your sites. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947.aspx
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service
A sandbox is a restricted execution environment that enables programs to access only certain resources and keeps problems that occur in the sandbox from affecting the rest of the server environment. Solutions that you deploy into a sandbox, which are known as sandboxed solutions, cannot use certain computer and network resources and cannot access content outside the site collection they are deployed in. Because sandboxed solutions cannot affect the whole server farm, they do not have to be deployed by a farm administrator. If sandboxed solutions have been enabled on at least one server in the farm, a site collection administrator can deploy solutions to a run in a sandbox on any server in the farm. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff535775(v=office.15).aspx
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service
This service was primarily used for multi-tenency support in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013, it is also necessary for apps. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx#ConfigureAppServices
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application
This is the core service for running your sites. It configures IIS to host the sites providing the SharePoint to end users.
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service
This service supplements the main Timer service with configuration settings for timed workflow events.
PerformancePoint Service
PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is a performance management service that you can use to monitor and analyze your business. By providing flexible, easy-to-use tools for building dashboards, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs), PerformancePoint Services can help individuals across an organization make informed business decisions that align with companywide objectives and strategy. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424392.aspx
PowerPoint Conversion Service
PowerPoint Conversion Service provides unattended, server-side conversion of presentations into other formats. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179894.aspx
Request Management
Request Manager is functionality in SharePoint Server 2013 that enables administrators to manage incoming requests and determine how SharePoint Server 2013 routes these requests. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj712708.aspx
Search Host Controller Service
This service manages the search topology components. The service is automatically started on all servers that run search topology components. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx
Search Query and Site Settings Service
This service load balances queries within the search topology. It also detects farm-level changes to the search service and puts these in the Search Admin database. The service is automatically started on all servers that run the query processing component. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx
Secure Store Service
The Secure Store Service is an authorization service that runs on an application server and provides a database that is used to store credentials. These credentials usually consist of a user identity and password, but can also contain other fields that you define http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806866.aspx
SharePoint Server Search
This service crawls content for the search index. This service is automatically started on all servers that run search topology components. The service cannot be stopped or started from the Services on Server page. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg502597.aspx
User Profile Service
The User Profile service application stores information about users in a central location. Social computing features use this information to enable productive interactions so that users can collaborate efficiently. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662538.aspx
User Profile Synchronization Service
The User Profile Synchronization Service facilitates the creation of user profiles by importing data from directory services, such as Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You can augment user profiles by importing data from business systems, such as SAP or SQL Server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg188041.aspx
Visio Graphics Service
The Visio Graphics Service allows users to share and view Visio diagrams by using Visio Services. The service application also enables data-connected Visio 2013 diagrams to be refreshed and updated from different data sources. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee524059.aspx
Word Automation Services
Word Automation Services enables unattended, server-side conversion of documents that are supported by Microsoft Word. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee558278(v=office.14).aspx
Work Management Service
The Work Management Service automates consolidating tasks from SharePoint, Exchange and Project Server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj554516.aspx
Happy SharePointing!
Nice post. Sure you can stop the Central Administration service. You should try haha and then start it again using Powershell.