Services

Blah

Start Services remotely

Start-service does not have a -computername parameter

IF (Get-PSSnapin | where {$_.name -eq "quest.activeroles.admanagement"})      {write-host "Quest Active Roles snapin already loaded"} Else     {add-PSSnapin  quest.activeroles.admanagement}   $ServerList = Get-QADComputer -SearchRoot "blah.com/Servers/" foreach ($server in $ServerList) {     Get-Service -ComputerName $Server.name | where {$_.Displayname -like "RMI*"} | Set-Service -StartupType Automatic start-service -InputObject (Get-Service -ComputerName $Server.name | where {$_.Displayname -like "RMI*"}) }

Startup Type startuptype

$services=Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -Filter "StartMode='Auto'" $services | where {$_.Name -like "*Exchange*"} | select name,displayname, startmode

Using PSRemoting

using powershell remoting to stop start services

$Servers = "server1","server2","server3"

$StopCommand = [ScriptBlock]::Create(@"

Stop-Service W3SVC

Set-Service W3SVC -StartupType Disabled

"@)

$StartCommand = [ScriptBlock]::Create(@"

Set-Service W3SVC -StartupType Automatic

Start-Service W3SVC

"@)

$StatusCommand = [ScriptBlock]::Create(@"

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -Filter "Name='W3SVC'" | select Name, State, StartMode

"@)

Invoke-Command –ComputerName $Servers { iisreset }

Invoke-Command –ComputerName $Servers –ScriptBlock $StopCommand

Invoke-Command –ComputerName $Servers –ScriptBlock $StartCommand

Invoke-Command –ComputerName $Servers –ScriptBlock $StatusCommand