im trying to stop some Windows Services remotely on different servers but only those with a defined logon name. I already collecting the Services like this. Could you please help?
Next Step should be to stop the collected Services. Thank you!!
$Servers = #('server1','server2')
foreach ($i in $Servers){
Get-WmiObject win32_service -ComputerName $i | where {($_.startname -eq "Username") -or ($_.startname -eq "Username")} | select #{n='Hostname';e={$i}} ,DisplayName,Name,Startname |Out-File C:\Temp\Out.txt -Append
}
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this is my code i want it to show a few services from my servers but it keeps showing all of them. i tried using -Name but power shell 7 keeps saying that doesn't exist please help
$offlineServices = (Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server.Name {Get-service [string]$server.Value | `
Where-Object{$_.status -eq 'Stopped'}} ).Name
Get-Service can be used directly against remote servers, like this:
Get-Service -Name $server.Value -ComputerName $server.Name |
Where-Object Status -eq 'Stopped'
If you want to stick with your original remoting technique, you need to use the using modifier:
$offlineServices = (Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server.Name -Script {Get-service $using:server.Value |
Where-Object Status -eq 'Stopped'}).Name
NOTE: you should also remove the backtick before Where-Object as it isn't needed and might cause you issue later when modifying/debugging the code.
Good day good people.
Would someone please help me out I am trying to PS our enterprise servers to find all assets with a particular service on it and having no luck.
I tried
$servicename = "SERVICE_NAME"
$list = get-content "c:\security\comp_list.txt"
foreach ($server in $list) {
if (Get-Service $servicename -computername $server -ErrorAction 'SilentlyContinue'){
Write-Host "$servicename exists on $server
}
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm still fairly new to PS.
My accepted answer to why Get-Service -ComputerName fails can be found in the link below and the resolution to the issue.
Powershell Results to Slack via Webhook question - Remote Server results
Summary
Differences between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x
Please Note In Windows 7.2 the Get-Service command made use of DCOM and such functionality like '-ComputerName' is removed.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-new/differences-from-windows-powershell?view=powershell-7#remove--computername-from--service-cmdlets-5090
$server = $env:Computername
Invoke-Command -Computername $server -Scriptblock {Get-Service | where status -eq 'started;}
Get-Service cmdlet
The cmdlet gets the members, the properties and methods, of objects
get-service | get-member | sort Name
Names of services that start / contain 'App'
$Results = Get-Service -Name App | Select Name
Trying to get list of all machines in a Domain with a certain service
tried via all posts in here, helped per one machine, but if i use a text file with multiple machines, it failes
$computers = Get-Content c:\script\computers.txt
$service = "*crystal*"
foreach ($computer in $computers) {
$servicestatus = Get-Service -ComputerName $computer -Name $service
}
$Data = $servicestatus | Select-Object Name,Machinename | Format-Table -AutoSize
Write($Data) | Out-File c:\script\output.txt -Append
Expected list of machines with service in table, instead got error:
This operation might require other privileges
same script, but with a direct machine name, works like a charm.
Any clue what is wrong?
Why not use:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computers -ScriptBlock {Get-Service -Name *crystal*}
Eventually you may store the result from invoke into a variable and work with it.
The benefit of using Invoke-Command, insted of foreach is that Invoke works in parallel, while foreach is serial ...
Hope it helps!
Best regards,
Ivan
I am trying to collect a list of the viewers installed on a set of servers. I am trying to loop through that list and run a wmi query and store the results and export a table with with the wmi result and server name next to it.
I am running this on server 2012
$computers = Get-Content C:\computers.txt
$WMIQuery = foreach ($computer in $computers){Get-WmiObject -Class
Win32_Product | where-object {$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer*"}}
$WMIQuery
$WMIQuery | Out-File c:\Viewers.txt
Desired Results
Server Name Object1 Object2
Server1 Microsoft Excel Viewer Microsoft Visio Viewer
I output the file and get a blank txt file.
foreach ($computer in (Get-Content -Path "C:\computers.txt")) {
Get-WMIObject -ComputerName $computer -Class Win32_Product |
Where-Object {$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer" } |
Out-File -Append -Path "C:\viewers.txt"
}
Your original code wasn't identifying the computer to perform Get-WMIObject against, so it was looking at only the computer that you were running the script on.
If there are many products on the remote computer, you may want to consider filtering on the remote computer instead of locally, so as to avoid transferring large amounts of data over what may be a slower-than-ideal network:
foreach ($computer in (Get-Content -Path "C:\computers.txt")) {
Get-WMIObject -ComputerName $computer -Class Win32_Product -Filter "Name LIKE '*Microsoft Viewer*'"|
Out-File -Append -Path "C:\viewers.txt"
}
(I think I have the filter syntax correct; I seem to have to hack at it every time I write a new filter...)
I don't have enough rep to add a comment, but Jeff is correct. However, there are still issues with the original poster's query. The following piece of code will yield no results based on the examples provided by the poster:
{$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer*"}
That needs to either be changed to
{$_.name -like "*Microsoft*Viewer*"}
or
{$_.name -match "Microsoft.*?Viewer"}
I have a Powershell script to find specific servers and their corresponding service accounts. If I modify the script to use a single server and a single service account, the results are what I expect. If I loop thru the servers and accounts, I receive the following error:
#################################################################
# Find Service Account(s) used to start Services on a Server(s) #
#################################################################
$accounts = (Get-Content C:\Users\location\Scripts\Service_Accounts.txt)
Remove-Item -path C:\Users\location\Scripts\ServiceAccountFnd.txt -force -erroraction silentlycontinue
Import-Module ActiveDirectory # Imports the Active Directory PowerShell module #
## Retrieves servers in the domain based on the search criteria ##
$servers=Get-ADComputer -Filter {Name -Like "namehere*"} -property *
## For Each Server, find the services running under the user specified in $account ##
ForEach ($server in $servers) {
Write-Host $server
ForEach ($account in $accounts) {
Write-Host $account
Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -ComputerName $server | Where-Object {$_.StartName -like "*$account*"} | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders -property #{n='ServerName';e={$_.__SERVER}}, StartName, Name -AutoSize | Out-File -FilePath C:\Users\location\Scripts\ServiceAccountFnd.txt -append -Width 150
}
}
Your $server variable does not only contain the hostname, but also all attributes of the AD computer object.
Try to change the ComputerName value to $server.name.
If that doesn't help: Can you confirm, that you used the very same computer in the loop as without the loop, as you described? I'd assume that you try to access another computer, which is not configured as expected.
Besided that, I'd recommend you to use Get-CimInstance rather than Get-WmiObject, as it doesn't use RPC, but WinRM by default. WinRM is more firewall friendly, secure and faster.