Empowering IT Professionals PowerShell's Start-Service Passthrough

Force Stop a Stuck Windows Service with PowerShell ... Now you can start the service with the sc start servicename command or through the service ... There is also a slight chance that using this option will reduce the start-up overhead. ... service entry, but not via an environment variable). -L ... The Start-Service cmdlet is the primary command for starting services in PowerShell. It allows you to start a service by specifying the service ... One of the basic duties of an Administrator is to start, stop, and restart services on systems. PowerShell empowers you to do so locally on a system and on ... -StartupType ServiceStartMode Change the starting mode of the service: Automatic or Manual or Disabled. -Status string Start, stop, or suspend (pause) the ... start-service -name newrelic-infra. } COMMENT: Variables. $msiPath = 'https ... PassThru if ($process.ExitCode -eq 0){ Write-Verbose "$msiFile has been ... With the Start-Service you can use the -PassThru option that returns an object that represent the status of the Service. Let's see the ... The machine I'm testing these examples on just happens to be running PowerShell ... processid -Force -PassThru -ErrorAction Stop 26 } 27 ... It verifies whether each service has its start type set to “Automatic” and if the service is not currently running. If a service is found to be in this state, ... $Service = $_ | Restart-Service -PassThru. # Wait till status of service ... Write-Error -Message "Failed to start service( $($Service.