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Find Required Services with PowerShell

Here’s a little PowerShell tidbit to get the status of all the required services. That is, the services that other services depend upon. When using Get-Service, this is the RequiredServices property which will be a collection of service objects...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2012 8:58 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Service, Get-Service

Ping a Service with PowerShell

The other day I came across a PowerShell question on StackOverflow about testing if a service was running on a group of machines.This sparked an idea for a tool to “ping” a service, in much the same way we ping … Continue reading →...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2012 9:42 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Get-Service, services

ByValue, I Think He’s Got It

Recently I responded to an email from a student seeking clarification about the difference between ByValue and ByProperty when it comes to parameter binding. This is what makes pipelined expressions work in Windows PowerShell. When you look at cmdlet...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2011 7:37 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Best Practices, Select-Object, Get-Service, Get-Content, Pipeline, parameter

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Find Required Services with PowerShell

Ping a Service with PowerShell

ByValue, I Think He’s Got It