We have a server running an app that has an uptime requiremtne of 24/7 with 1 scheduled monthly reboot. The server is 2008 R2 Standard running 12.1.6 MP4 and has downloaded the files for MP5. It was getting behind on Virus defs and we discovered that the defs were corrupt as there were multiple def folders so the app owner sought to follow the procedures to clear them out. SMC got stuck in the stopping state however and, considering the requirements of the server, we sought a way to kill the process. We tried the taskkill command on the PID of the SepMasterService and got access denied with standard command line, admin and domain admin. As there is another week until this server is rebooted I would really appreciate if anyone that has another way to go about killing the task might share it. This would also definitely be useful elsewhere with the servers as app owners are understandably gunshy of rebooting their servers.
I need a solution
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