Powershell Wait for service to be stopped or started

Question

I have searched both this forum and through google and can\'t find what I need. I have a quite large script and I\'m looking for some code that will check if the service is star

Answer 1

I couldn't get the 'count' strategy, that Micky posted, to work, so here is how i solved it:

I created a function, that takes a searchString (this could be "Service Bus *") and the status that i expect the services should reach.

function WaitUntilServices($searchString, $status)
{
    # Get all services where DisplayName matches $searchString and loop through each of them.
    foreach($service in (Get-Service -DisplayName $searchString))
    {
        # Wait for the service to reach the $status or a maximum of 30 seconds
        $service.WaitForStatus($status, '00:00:30')
    }
}

The function can now be called with

WaitUntilServices "Service Bus *" "Stopped"

or

WaitUntilServices "Service Bus *" "Running"

If the timeout period is reached, a not so graceful exception is thrown:

Exception calling "WaitForStatus" with "2" argument(s): "Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed."