Powershell Wait for service to be stopped or started

Question

I have searched both this forum and through google and can\'t find what I need. I have a quite large script and I\'m looking for some code that will check if the service is star

Answer 1

The following will loop and verify the status of the given services until the number of services with the "Running" state is equal to zero (hence they are stopped), so you can use this if you are waiting for services to Stop.

I've added a $MaxRepeat variable, which will prevent this from running for ever. It will run 20 times max as defined.

$services = "Service Bus *"
$maxRepeat = 20
$status = "Running" # change to Stopped if you want to wait for services to start

do 
{
    $count = (Get-Service $services | ? {$_.status -eq $status}).count
    $maxRepeat--
    sleep -Milliseconds 600
} until ($count -eq 0 -or $maxRepeat -eq 0)