Kill a process on multiple remote machines

Question

I am looking as the title says to kill a process (for example name.exe) on multiple remote machines. I can do it individually using pskill or taskkill using (for example): pskill -t \ -u -p name.exe but this becomes impractical with 50+ machines.

Is there a way to make it read a text file of IP Addresses like psexec does using the @C:\name.txt or in powershell or something similar?

All devices are on the same domain. Thank you in advance for your help.

Answer 1

If you have a text file with a list of machines you could do it trivially with:

get-content serverlist.txt | Foreach-object {& pskill -t \\$_ -u -p name.exe}

Answer 2

There are many methods to do this in Powershell like WMI, Invoke-command etc. Here is an example to do it using WMI:

$cred = get-credential

It will pop-up for Credential. This way you can make sure that credential is not visible in the script.

(Get-Content 'c:\Temp\Computers.txt') | ForEach-Object {
          Get-WmiObject -computer $_ -class win32_process  -filter "name = 'name.exe'" -credential $cred| %{$_.terminate()} | out-null
        }