Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Managing Services

In PowerShell, a number of cmdlets can be used to manage services on a local machine, including the following:

• Get-Service—Used to gather service information from Windows

• New-Service—Used to create a new service in Windows

• Restart-Service—Used to restart services

• Resume-Service—Used to resume suspended services

• Set-Service—Used to modify service configurations

• Start-Service—Used to start services

• Stop-Service—Used to stop services

• Suspend-Service—Used to suspend services

Getting Service Information

When the Get-Service cmdlet is executed, it returns a collection of objects that contains information about all the services that are present on a Windows system. A representation of that object collection is then ...