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rnaveo's avatar
rnaveo
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Aug 09, 2022

What is McpManagementService?

Hello,   I was looking through my services and identified McpManagementService as an unknown service. Do you know what McpManagementService is and what it does?
Application Management
configuration
device management
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KurtBMayer
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Aug 09, 2022

rnaveo 

 

There is a signed Microsoft DLL on Win10 and Win11, found at:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\McpManagementService.dll

The service loads this DLL via svchost.exe -k McpManagementServiceGroup

 

It's File Description reads: Universal Print Management Service. Which is a feature of Office 365 that can be used to support remote printing. Since its startup type is "manual" if you're not using this feature it won't be running.

 

See Universal Print - frequently asked questions (FAQ) 

 

Note - there are some threads on other sites which suggest this DLL is "nasty" but those claims appear unsubstantiated and are due to the fact that this service does collect some telemetry for MSFT diagnostics - but many Windows functions do that.

 

In SERVICES.MSC, there's also a message reading, "description: "failed to read description. Error Code:15100>".  But this same message appears on some other services as well. It seems to get shown when the description string is not present.