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The document provides a comprehensive guide on using the Get-Service cmdlet in PowerShell to check the status of Windows services. It covers basic and advanced usage, including how to filter services by name, status, and dependencies, as well as how to check services on remote computers. The Get-Service cmdlet is presented as a powerful alternative to traditional service management methods.

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The document provides a comprehensive guide on using the Get-Service cmdlet in PowerShell to check the status of Windows services. It covers basic and advanced usage, including how to filter services by name, status, and dependencies, as well as how to check services on remote computers. The Get-Service cmdlet is presented as a powerful alternative to traditional service management methods.

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Get-Service: Checking Windows Services Status with PowerShell


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The built-in Get-Service PowerShell cmdlet can be used to get a list of Windows services, check
their statuses, filter them by name or service status. Let’s learn how to use Get-Service to check
Windows services.

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1. Syntax and Basic Usage of the Get-Service Cmdlet


2. Get-Service: Advanced Usage Examples
3. Check Services on a Remote Computer with PowerShell

Syntax and Basic Usage of the Get-Service Cmdlet


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The basic syntax and available parameters of the Get-Service cmdlet are as follows:
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Get-Service [[-Name] <string[]>] [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-DependentServices] [-RequiredServic
es] [-Include <string[]>] [-Exclude <string[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

When run without parameters, the Get-Service command displays a list of all the services on the
local computer and their statuses.

To check whether the specific service is running or not, specify its name or DisplayName:

Get-Service wuauserv

Or

Get-Service -DisplayName "Windows Update"


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Get the status of multiple services at once:
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If you don’t know the exact name of the service, you can use wildcards. For example, to list all
services whose display name starts with Microsoft:

Get-Service -DisplayName Microsoft*

Use the Where-Object cmdlet to list only services with a specific state. For example, list all
stopped services:

Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.status -eq 'stopped'}


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Get-Service: Advanced Usage Examples


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The Get-Service cmdlet returns a default property set consisting of the following properties:

Status — Indicates the current service status. The possible values are: Stopped,
StartPending, StopPending, Running, ContinuePending, PausePending, Paused.

Name — Displays the short name of the service


Display Name — Show the friendly name of the service.
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Get-Service | Get-Member | Where-Object { $_.MemberType -like "*property" } | Select-Object Name,


MemberType

Among these other properties, the most preferred when checking the service status is the
StartType, which indicates whether the service start type is:

Automatic — Service starts automatically during the system start-up.

Manual — Service must be started manually by a user or application.

AutomaticDelayedStart — service starts automatically on boot after core network services


are run.

Disabled — Service is disabled.

List services whose StartType is Automatic.


Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.StartType -eq 'Automatic' } | Select-Object Name, Status, StartTy
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List services that should start automatically but are not currently running:

Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.StartType -eq 'Automatic' -and $_.Status -ne 'Running' } | Select
-Object Status, Name, DisplayName, StartType

Get service dependency. Such services may fail to start if their dependent services are not
running:

Get-Service Dfs -RequiredServices

According to the result below, the Dfs service has six dependencies, and one is not running
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Check Services on a Remote Computer with PowerShell
The Get-Service cmdlet retrieves the service status in the local computer by default. But it is
capable of getting the service status on a remote computer.

On Windows PowerShell, the Get-Service cmdlet has a parameter called -ComputerName that
accepts an array of computer names to query. This method uses the Distributed Component
Object Model (DCOM) to connect to the remote machine and execute the command against it.

For example, this command retrieves the status of the services on the remote computers named
DC1 and PCX.

Get-Service -Name WinRM -ComputerName DC1,PCX | Select-Object Status,Name,MachineName

On PowerShell Core (6.x+), the -ComputerName parameter has been removed from the Get-
Service cmdlet because of PowerShell Core’s move away from DCOM. Instead, you must use the
Invoke-Command cmdlet, which uses the WinRM to communicate to remote machines.

Invoke-Command -ComputerName DC1, PCX {Get-Service WinDefend, wuauserv | Select-Object Status, Na


me, DisplayName}

The Get-Service PowerShell cmdlet is an easy and powerful way to check the status of Windows
services on local or remote computers. It can easily replace the old-school ways of managing
services using the Services MMC snap-in (services.msc) or the sc query console command.

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PATRICK BURWELL REPLY


 September 27, 2022 - 6:39 pm

‘(Get-Service -Name wuauserv).StartupType’ is wrong to identify if “disabled”


Like this:
if((Get-Service -computername $server -Name “ArcGIS Server”).StartType -ieq
“disabled”){continue}

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