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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting

By : Brenton J.W. Blawat
Book Image

Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting

By: Brenton J.W. Blawat

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing Windows services


When you are working with Microsoft-based systems, there may be times where you need to interact with Windows services. PowerShell offers a variety of cmdlets that enable you to work with these services. To start, you can review the services on a system by leveraging the get-service cmdlet. By calling the get-service cmdlet, you can retrieve the full list of services on a system. If you want to obtain a filtered view into a specific service, you can leverage the –Name parameter, referencing a specific name of a service. After executing this command, you will see Status, Name, and DisplayName of the service. You may also issue the –RequiredServices parameter to display the services that are required to be running, for that particular service to be functional. You may also use -DependentServices to view the services that are dependent on that service.

To use the get-service cmdlet to query the Windows Audio Service, do the following:

Get-service –DisplayName "Windows...