About the Microsoft ISA Server Control Service

The Microsoft® ISA Server Control service (isactrl) performs the following functions:

• Starting other ISA Server services.
• Restarting other ISA Server services when certain changes are made through ISA Server Management, as described in the Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 product documentation.
• Generating alerts and running actions.
• Updating the client configuration files (Msplat.txt and Mspclnt.ini).
• Deleting unused log files.

You cannot use ISA Server Management to stop or start the Microsoft ISA Server Control service. To stop the service, type the following at a command line:

net stop isactrl

If you stop the Microsoft ISA Server Control service, all the other ISA Server services will also be stopped.