Stopping & Restarting Services Remotely Using Set-Service

Question

I\'ve got a list of 10-15 services that I routinely need to restart on 6 servers. I have a script that calls a list of services, then calls a list of the servers, and then s

Answer 1

You can try this single liner command:

Get-Content .\services.txt | %{Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -ComputerName (Get-Content .\computers.txt) -Filter "Name='$_'"} | %{$_.StopService()}; Get-Content .\services.txt | %{Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -ComputerName (Get-Content .\computers.txt) -Filter "Name='$_'"} | %{$_.StartService()}