Powershell check if service is running and log to file - powershell

Question

So i have 2 variables
one include 4 services
service 1
service 2
service 3
service 4
second variable include all services which are running on computer
$servicesall = (Get-service | Group-Object -Property Name).Name
$servicestocheck = Get-Content
i want to log to file info like Service 1 is running, Service 2 is not running

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for but if you store the services you need in a text file you can do the following:
$services = Get-Content "C:\ServiceList.txt"
$statusReport = Get-Service -Name $services | Select-Object Name, Status
$statusReport | Out-File -path "c:\logfile.log"
Result:
Name Status
---- ------
spooler Running
winrm Stopped
wsearch Running
The name parameter in Get-Service -Name $services accepts an array of strings, which is why you don't need to do any sort of 'foreach' loop.

Answer 2

This may not be the best way to do this, but here you have something to work with:
$services = (
"vds",
"VSS",
"W32Time",
"abc",
"bcd"
)
foreach ($item in $services) {
$service = Get-Service -Name $item -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($service) {
$exist = $true
} else {
$exist = $false
$service = #{
status = "nope"
Name = $item
}
}
$service | select Status, Name, #{Name="Exist"; Expression={$exist}}
}
Result:
Status Name Exist
------ ---- -----
Stopped vds True
Stopped VSS True
Running W32Time True
nope abc False
nope bcd False