Managing Services the PowerShell way – Part 6: Modify through WMI

In the previous article of this series we looked at using WMI in PowerShell to discover service information. The WMI service object offers a few properties missing from the .NET service object. And while we can use Set-Service to modify a service object, there may be situations where you want or need to use WMI.

By Jeffery Hicks - Mon, February 4, 2013 - 0 comments

Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with 20 years of experience. Follow his blog.

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Managing Services the PowerShell way – Part 5: WMI and CIM

The fifth installment in our series about managing Windows Services with PowerShell explains how to leverage WMI and CIM for configuring remote Services.

By Jeffery Hicks - Wed, January 30, 2013 - 0 comments

Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with 20 years of experience. Follow his blog.

Managing Services the PowerShell way – Part 4: Configure Services

Let’s continue our exploration of using PowerShell to manage services. If you’ve missed the previous articles, take a few minutes to get caught up. In this article I want to explain how to configure services using the Set-Service cmdlet. This cmdlet uses the same service object that Get-Service works with.

By Jeffery Hicks - Thu, January 24, 2013 - 0 comments

Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with 20 years of experience. Follow his blog.

Managing Services the PowerShell way – Part 3: Start and stop Services

Over the last few articles we’ve been exploring different ways to gather relevant service information from local and remote computers using PowerShell. In Part 3 of this series I will explain how to start, stop and restart Services with PowerShell.

By Jeffery Hicks - Tue, January 22, 2013 - 0 comments

Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with 20 years of experience. Follow his blog.

Three ways to run remote Windows commands

This article compares three different ways to run commands or executables remotely on multiple computers and follow up on their success in performing the needed tasks.