Service Applications in SharePoint

Service Applications in SharePoint are associated with web applications, and specific services are typically deployed as needed in a particular farm. Only deployed services are referred to as service applications. This is a huge advantage in terms of conserving resources and optimizing performance. For instance, a specific web application can be configured to use only the services it needs. The number of service applications that exist is vast, and, as third-party vendors can create their own services for SharePoint Server. A list of services includes the following:

• Access Services
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• APP Management Service
• Business Data Connectivity Service
• Machine Translation Service
• Managed Metadata Service
• PerformancePoint Service Application
• Project Server Service Application
• Search Service Application
• Secure Store Service
• User Profile Service Application
• Visio Graphics Service
• Word Automation Services

You can set up a single service application to be shared among multiple web applications or deploy multiple instances of the same service across a farm and, in some cases, across multiple farms. Also, there is no limitation regarding the number of services that can be deployed in any single farm. A typical planning scenario requires that you either set up services to share across multiple web applications or isolate an individual service to one or a limited number of web applications. We can publish below service applications across the farm.

• Business Data Connectivity
• Machine Translation
• Managed Metadata
• User Profile
• Search
• Secure Store

Navigate to “Central Admin -> Application Management ->Manage Service Applications” and click on “New” from ribbon to see the list of service applications available.

you can use powershell command to get the list of  service applications

Get-SPServiceApplication | Format-Table -wrap

Get-SPServiceApplication -Identity 48fbecaa-71e4-4f1d-bdfe-bdcbc17fa061 | Format-Table -wrap

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For every service application there is a service associated with it which you can from central admin by navigating to “Central Admin -> Application Management -> Manage Services on Server”.

Alternatively you can use the powershell command as below

Get-SPServiceInstance | Format-Table -wrap

Get-SPServiceInstance | Where {$_.Status -eq "Online"} | Format-Table -wrap

Similarly we can start the service instance by running the below command.

Start-SPServiceInstance e63962e4-e1ea-4b83-a9cc-df51683e85f3

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