Why does Get-Services give me PermissionDenied for the NetTcpPortSharing service?

Question

I just experienced an issue that I have never seen before when displaying services in Win8.1 (with Powershell Core 6+). Running Get-Service in an Admin shell, result in the following error:

$ Get-Service

...
Get-Service : Service 'NetTcpPortSharing (NetTcpPortSharing)' cannot be queried due to the following error:
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-Service
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Get-Service], ServiceCommandException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotGetServiceInfo,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetServiceCommand

Stopped  NetTcpPortSharing  NetTcpPortSharing
...

Looking at the details of this Service I see:

Using net helpmsg 15101 I then got this:
The resource loader failed to load MUI file because the file fail to pass validation.

I have no idea what this means, of even if it's relevant as it was shown in the Description field.

So none of this info makes sense, and I have no idea what created this service, nor what it is doing or was using it. However I know that a few days ago I didn't have this problem, but I don't know if I had the service. I have been playing a lot with various Remoting features, but from this machine to another W10.

What is NetTcpPortSharing used for and can I safely delete it?
(Where does it typically come from?)

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Possibly Related References:

• NetTcpPortSharing
• Access denied when using Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service
• Windows Service is giving Description: <Failed to read description error code 2>

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UPDATE (according to magicandre1981)

# $key = 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetTcpPortSharing'
# Get-ItemProperty -Path $key

DisplayName        : NetTcpPortSharing
ErrorControl       : 1
ImagePath          : C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\SMSvcHost.exe
Start              : 4
Type               : 32
Description        : @%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\ServiceModelInstallRC.dll,-8200
ObjectName         : NT AUTHORITY\LocalService
ServiceSidType     : 3
RequiredPrivileges : {SeCreateGlobalPrivilege}
FailureActions     : {132, 3, 0, 0...}
PSPath             : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetTcpPortSharing
PSParentPath       : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
PSChildName        : NetTcpPortSharing
PSDrive            : HKLM
PSProvider         : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry

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The config file for this is located here:

# find //c/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework*/ -iname "SMSvcHost.exe.config"
//c/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/SMSvcHost.exe.config
//c/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v4.0.30319/SMSvcHost.exe.config

Answer 1

This service belongs to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and is part of .net framework.

On my Windows 8.1 Pro x64 (German), the registry setting under the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetTcpPortSharing

is

# Description:
%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\ServiceModelInstallRC.dll,-8200 
# DisplayName:
%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\ServiceModelInstallRC.dll,-820
# Imagepath:
%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\SMSvcHost.exe

So check which settings you have for for Description. I have no idea why it is .net 3.x and 4.0 for you.