Simplest way to restart service on a remote computer

Question

What\'s the easiest programmatic way to restart a service on a remote Windows system? Language or method doesn\'t matter as long as it doesn\'t require human interaction.

Answer 1

As of Powershell v3, PSsessions allow for any native cmdlet to be run on a remote machine

$session = New-PSsession -Computername "YourServerName"
Invoke-Command -Session $Session -ScriptBlock {Restart-Service "YourServiceName"}
Remove-PSSession $Session

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