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Re: Filter services by log on as account with a domain user

ewbogue — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:22:35 GMT

Ah yes, the filter parameter requires WQL syntax. I was not aware of the \ character being special.

Thanks, it does work!

Re: Filter services by log on as account with a domain user

Don Jones — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:39:42 GMT

You beat me to it! The backslash is a special character in a WMI query; you escape it with a second backslash.

Re: Filter services by log on as account with a domain user

Srikanth — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:22:36 GMT

Please try the following:

Get-WMIObject Win32_Service -filter "startname='domain\\username'"

should work.

Filter services by log on as account with a domain user

ewbogue — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:58 GMT

I am looking for a way to obtain a list of services filtered by the log on as account being a domain user (vs. LocalSystem, for example). I do not see that Get-Service can access that information, but Get-WMIObject win32_service can. However, when I use this syntax I receive an invalid query error:

Get-WMIObject Win32_Service -filter "startname='domain\username'"

I tested this on the Application Identity Service by using this syntax to obtain the startname property:

Get-WMIObject Win32_Service -filter "name='AppIDSvc'" | fl *

The results show the property StartName with a value matching the domain\username I set in the Services Console.

Get-Help seems to indicate that I should be able to use any property to filter my results, but this is not working.