I have created the below powershell script which looks at a local active directory, and searches for a particular string within the description field.
Once the script has found the particular computer name from the above search it starts the service in question.
$FullName = "*Username*"
$LookUp = Get-ADComputer -Filter {Description -Like $FullName} -Properties Description | Select DNSHostName
$ComputerName = $LookUp
$ServiceName = "Service Name"
Get-Service -Name $ServiceName -ComputerName $ComputerName | Set-Service -Status Running
The issue I am having is that the Powershell script returns a 'service not found' message when I know (have manually checked) that the service exists?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Does the service start if you run only that line on the target machine?
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I think you need to do this:
$ComputerName = $LookUp.DNSHostname
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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 $computers -ScriptBlock {Get-Service -Name *crystal*}
Eventually you may store the result from invoke into a variable and work with it.
The benefit of using Invoke-Command, insted of foreach is that Invoke works in parallel, while foreach is serial ...
Hope it helps!
Best regards,
Ivan
I have a PowerShell script to detect active instances of send port running in BizTalk. I am struggling with syntax to query the MSBTS_ServiceInstance to find the active instances of this send port.
Can anyone help me as to how to subsitute the name of the send port in the where clause or the filter clause please ?
[ARRAY]$active = get-wmiobject MSBTS_ServiceInstance -namespace 'root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer' -filter '(ServiceStatus = 2) and how to search by name' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Write-Host "Active Instances:" $active.Count
This should do the trick
[ARRAY]$active = get-wmiobject MSBTS_ServiceInstance -namespace 'root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer' -filter {ServiceStatus = 2 and ServiceName = "port name"} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Please see Class definition and PowerShell syntax
However I personaly prefer using Microsoft.BizTalk.Operations.dll with PowerShell to perform this kind of queries.
I try to make a PowerShell script to do the following:
I want to identify the antivirus running on my PC.
I use command to do that:
$AntiVirusProduct = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\SecurityCenter2 -Class AntiVirusProduct
Write-Output $AntiVirusProduct.DisplayName
Here I get the antivirus name but, I don't know how to grep the antivirus name and put it to the next command.
The next command is:
Stop-Service -Force "$Antivirus Name"
Or if there is a better way to to this?
Edit
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\SecurityCenter2 -Class AntiVirusProduct |
Select DisplayName
DisplayName
-----------
AVG Antivirus
Windows Defender
If your display name output is a list of service names you can remove the Windows Defender entry from the list with something like this:
$svc = $AntiVirusProduct.DisplayName |
Where-Object { $_ -notlike '*Windows Defender*' }
and then stop the service like this:
$svc | Stop-Service -Force
I have what should be a simple script that will connect to all the servers in a domain and build a table of all the services running on each server. However, when I try to automate the script to grab all the servers in a foreach loop I get an RPC error. If the $name variable is replaced with the server DNS name everything works as expected. I've checked the firewall and DCOM services on my system (win7) and the servers (2000 - 2008R2) and these are all enabled or disabled appropriately. So, I'm thinking something in the script is broke. I'm still learning powershell, so any tips are appreciated.
Here is the script so far.
$servernames = get-adobject -Filter 'ObjectClass -eq "Computer" ' -Searchbase "OU=Servers,DC=E,DC=BENEFIS,DC=ORG"
foreach ($name in $servernames) {
Get-WMIObject win32_service -computername $name -Property SystemName,Name,StartName,StartMode |
Format-table SystemName, Name, Startname >c:\serverservices.txt }
Each object you get back have a name property so you need to pass its value to the ComputerName parameter. In addition, to get computer object use the Get-ADComputer cmdlet, you also need to specify the Append switch when you export to the file otherwise content will be overwritten and what you'll see finally is the output of the last computer only.
$servernames = Get-ADComputer -SearchBase "OU=Servers,DC=E,DC=BENEFIS,DC=ORG" -Filter *
foreach ($name in $servernames)
{
Get-WMIObject win32_service -computername $name.Name -Property SystemName,Name,StartName,StartMode |
Format-table SystemName, Name, Startname | Out-File c:\serverservices.txt -Append
}