Stopping & Restarting Services Remotely Using Set-Service

Question

I\'ve got a list of 10-15 services that I routinely need to restart on 6 servers. I have a script that calls a list of services, then calls a list of the servers, and then s

Answer 1

To restart services simply use Restart-Service:

$Services = Get-Content -Path "C:\Powershell\Services.txt"
$Machines = Get-Content -Path "C:\Powershell\Machines.txt"
Get-Service -Name $Services -ComputerName $Machines | Restart-Service

Since according to the comments PowerShell v6 has removed support for remote access from the *-Service cmdlets you need to resort to Invoke-Command for remote execution when running v6 or newer, like this:

Invoke-Command -Computer $Machines -ScriptBlock {
    Get-Service -Name $using:Services -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
        Restart-Service
}

or like this:

Invoke-Command -Computer $Machines -ScriptBlock {
    Restart-Service $using:Services -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}

Another option would be WMI:

$fltr = ($Services | ForEach-Object { 'Name="{0}"' -f $_ }) -join ' or '
Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -Computer $Machines -Filter $fltr | ForEach-Object {
    $_.StopService()
    $_.StartService()
}