Professional Windows® PowerShell

15.5. Using the get-service Cmdlet

The get-service cmdlet retrieves information about one or more services. In addition to the common parameters, the get-service cmdlet supports the following parameters (all the listed parameters are optional):

• Name — Specifies the name(s) of the service(s) to be retrieved. Cannot be used with the DisplayName parameter.

• Include — Specifies those items on which the cmdlet will act.

• Exclude — Specifies those items on which the cmdlet will not act.

• DisplayName — Specifies the display name(s) of the service(s). Cannot be used with the ServiceName parameter.

• InputObject — The ServiceController object for the service(s) about which you want to retrieve information.

To retrieve information about all services installed on a system, simply type the following command without specifying any parameters:

get-service

You can focus the objects returned by specifying the -Name parameter with a suitable argument. You can use wildcards in the value of the -Name parameter. For example, to retrieve information about all services whose service name begins with m, use the command:

Get-Service -Name m*

To display those services sorted alphabetically and with their display name, use this command:

get-service -ServiceName m* |
sort-object ServiceName |
format-table Name,DisplayName -auto

Figure 15-22 shows the results of running the preceding command.

Figure 15.22. Figure 15-22

You can use the Status property of the objects returned from the get-service cmdlet together ...