Net.Pipe Listener Adapter service not available

_{Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:51 PM}

Hello,

I have tried to Enable the service Net.Pipe Listener Adapter through service manager window, but the service was not listed. I tried  various options to add this net.pipe feature using the Add/remove Windows Components option, but none of them displayed the net.pipe service.

Can someone please help on how to add this feature? I am using Windows Server 2012 Standard.

Appreciate your help.

_{Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:22 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

According to your description, maybe Net.pipe Listener Adapter service is not installed by default. It is provided by SMSvcHost.exe EXE file(under C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319) and usually depends on Windows Process Activation Service.

Please refer to the similar thread below:

Missing .NET TCP listener adapter service??

http://forums.iis.net/t/1165998.aspx

In addition, you can ask in IIS forum below for further assistance.

IIS forum: http://forums.iis.net/

Best regards,

_{Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:19 AM ✅Answered | 4 votes}

Thank you very much for your reply Susie Long.

That did set us in the right path indirectly, We searched further and found that the named pipe activation and tcp activation features are listed as part of .Net 4.5\WCF features.

I enabled them and now i am able to see the net.pipe listener adapter service.

Thanks again.

_{Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:59 AM | 1 vote}

Hi,

Good to hear that and thanks for your feedback.

If you need other assistance, please feel free to let me know.

Have a nice day!

Best regards,

Susie

_{Thursday, July 4, 2019 2:26 AM}

Greetings.

I am facing the same issue where the Net Pipe Listener Adapter is missing on services app. All this is the previewing issue on VS 2017 SSDT tool for SSRS reports.

I am following this thread and it says it order to do this, i need to run SMSvcHost.exe EXE file(underC:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319) that usually depends on Windows Process Activation Service.

I did that and I get this error 'Windows Service Start Failure. Cannot start service from the command line or debugger, a windows service must first be installed and then started with serverexplorer, windows service administrative tool or NET Start command'

Now I don't know what that means and I don't want to take the risk of installing new service or software that could harm the production server where my applications are hosted in. 

Any workaround. Do I manually install the net pipe adapter from some website? Anything other than going through intermediary steps that can potentially risk destroying my production environment?

Let me know and thanks.