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 had to tweak this a bit with multiple counters because this service purposely starts and stops slowly. The original script got me on the right track. I had to wait for the service to be in a completely stopped status before I could move on because I'm actually restarting that same service. You could probably remove the "sleep," but I don't mind leaving it in. You could probably remove everything and just use the $stopped variable. :)

    # change to Stopped if you want to wait for services to start
    $running = "Running" 
    $stopPending = "StopPending"
    $stopped = "Stopped"
    do 
    {
        $count1 = (Get-Service $service | ? {$_.status -eq $running}).count
        sleep -Milliseconds 600
        $count2 = (Get-Service $service | ? {$_.status -eq $stopPending}).count
        sleep -Milliseconds 600
        $count3 = (Get-Service $service | ? {$_.status -eq $stopped}).count
        sleep -Milliseconds 600
    } until ($count1 -eq 0 -and $count2 -eq 0 -and $count3 -eq 1)