I have two servers Server A and Server B. I want to stop server A from Server B remotely using Powershell script.
Because you asked for Powershell:
(Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -ComputerName ServerA -Filter "Name='iisadmin'").InvokeMethod("StopService", $null)
Agreed this question should be moved to ServerFault.
$service = Get-WmiObject -computer 'ServerA' Win32_Service -Filter "Name='IISAdmin'"
$service
$service.InvokeMethod('StopService',$Null)
start-sleep -s 5
$service.InvokeMethod('StartService',$Null)
start-sleep -s 5
$service.State
$service = Get-WmiObject -computer 'ServerB' Win32_Service -Filter "Name='IISAdmin'"
$service
$service.InvokeMethod('StopService',$Null)
start-sleep -s 5
$service.InvokeMethod('StartService',$Null)
start-sleep -s 5
$service.State
Option 1:
iisreset remotepcname /restart
Option 2:
(Get-Service -ComputerName remotepc -Name 'IISAdmin').stop()
Option 3:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName remotepc -ScriptBlock {iisreset}
You can use get-wmiobject cmdlt with different NameSpace for different versions of IIS v6 or v7, below pipelining command can be used for such operations in IIS locally or remotely
for IIS v6
$srv = "Server Name or IP Address"
$app = "Name of App Pool"
$x = get-wmiobject -namespace "root\MicrosoftIISv2" -class "IIsApplicationPool" -ComputerName $srv -Authentication PacketPrivacy | where-object {$_.Name -eq "W3SVC/AppPools/$app"}
$x.Stop()
$x.Start()
for IIS v7
$srv = "Server Name or IP Address"
$app = "Name of App Pool"
$x = Get-WMIObject -Namespace "root\webAdministration" -Class "ApplicationPool" -ComputerName $srv -Authentication PacketPrivacy | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $app}
$x.Stop()
$x.Start()
you need to have sufficient account privilege for these operations, event though i prefer to do $x.Recycle() for my websites.
One of the simplest ways to do this is really with just a command line execution using PsExec. And send over to the machines
IISReset /STOP or /START or /RESTART
So you'd do something like this
PsExec \\Server2 -u Administrator -p somePassword IISReset /STOP
Just be careful with password management if you go this route or any route that involves some type of admin level account impersonation so that no one can get a plain text copy of the admin password.
In powershell 2.0, run the following from cmd prompt:
invoke-command -computername <yourremoteservername> -scriptblock {iisreset}