I want to Start windows service from stopped state

Question

Hi All,

I want to start windows service on remote servers through powershell, how to i start windows service from stopped or not running on multiple remote server via powershell script

Answer 1

Hi @D Vijayakumar VLR ,

maybe this his helpful:

$serviceName = "bits"  
$serverName = "Server01"  
Get-Service -Name $serviceName -ComputerName $serverName | Set-Service -Status Running  

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

I agree with Andreas's comment: "Please don't expect a ready to go script based on your individual requirements."

Having said that, I have a script that I believe that I already shared with another user, that you might be able to use. I have not been able to find that forum thread, so here is the script.

Note that in my testing on Win10 machines, I have found that KB5001649 appears to greatly affect the processing time of $service.StartType when run against remote machines. If you experience the same problem, then you may need to modify the script to do an Invoke-Command instead of specifying the computer name on the Get-Service cmdlet. You may also need to modify the testing of service status and starttype to suit your needs.

# Script to start services that are set to start automatically, but are not running. 
# Author: Dave K. (MotoX80 on MS forums) @GenuineMadware

# KB5001649 appears to greatly affect the processing time of  $service.StartType 

$AllServers = Get-Content c:\temp\serverlist.txt
$Report = @() 
""
"All services on all servers"
foreach ($server in $AllServers) {
    "Analyzing {0}" -f $server
    $AllServices = $null 
    $AllServices = Get-Service -ComputerName $server
    "Found {0} services." -f $AllServices.count
    foreach ($service in $AllServices) {
        #$service.Name
        $report +=     [PSCustomObject]@{
            ComputerName = $server
            ServiceName  = $service.name
            Start        = $service.StartType
            Status       = $service.Status  
        }  
    }
}
"Total service count is {0}" -f $report.Count
$report | Format-Table

$failures = $report | Where-Object -Property start -eq Automatic | Where-Object -Property Status -eq Stopped

""
"These services set to start automatically but are not running."
$failures | Format-Table

""
"Restarting non-excluded failed services."
$exclude = @('MapsBroker','debugregsvc','sppsvc','isahelpersvc','gpsvc','gupdate','lltdsvc','edgeupdate')

foreach ($service in $failures) {
    if ($exclude -notContains $service.ServiceName) {
        "Starting {0} on {1}" -f $service.ServiceName , $service.ComputerName
        Set-Service -Name $service.ServiceName -computername $service.ComputerName -Status Running
    }
}