Using Powershell to stop a service remotely without WMI or remoting

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I came across this one liner that appears to work   stop-service -inputobject   get-service -ComputerName remotePC -Name Spooler    Can anyone explain why  because I thought stop-service didn t work unless you either used remoting or it occurred on the local host

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This worked for me  but I used it as start  powershell outputs   waiting for service to finshing starting a few times then finishes and then a get-service on the remote server shows the service started     start  -service -inputobject   get-service -ComputerName remotePC -Name Spooler

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Thanks to everyone s contributions to this question  I ve come up with the following script   Change the values for  SvcName and  SvrName to suit your needs   This script will start the remote service if it is stopped  or stop it if it is started   And it uses the cool  WaitForStatus method to wait while the service responds    Change this values to suit your needs   SvcName    Spooler   SvrName    remotePC    Initialize variables   string  WaitForIt       string  Verb       string  Result    FAILED   svc    get-service -computername  SvrName -name  SvcName  Write-host   SvcName on  SvrName is    svc status   Switch   svc status         Stopped            Write-host  Starting  SvcName              Verb    start           WaitForIt    Running           svc Start         Running            Write-host  Stopping  SvcName              Verb    stop           WaitForIt    Stopped           svc Stop        Default           Write-host   SvcName is    svc status    Taking no action      if   WaitForIt -ne           Try      For some reason  we cannot use -ErrorAction after the next statement           svc WaitForStatus  WaitForIt  00 02 00         Catch           Write-host  After waiting for 2 minutes   SvcName failed to  Verb              svc    get-service -computername  SvrName -name  SvcName      if   svc status -eq  WaitForIt    Result    SUCCESS       Write-host   Result    SvcName on  SvrName is    svc status       Of course  the account you run this under will need the proper privileges to access the remote computer and start and stop services   And when executing this against older remote machines  you might first have to install WinRM 3 0 on the older machine

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You can also do  Get-Service -Name  what ever  - ComputerName RemoteHost  Status    Stopped

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Another option  use invoke-command   cls  cred   Get-Credential  server    MyRemoteComputer   service    My Service Name    invoke-command -Credential  cred -ComputerName  server -ScriptBlock       param          Parameter Mandatory  True Position 0           string  service           stop-service  service    -ArgumentList  service   NB  to use this option you ll need PowerShell to be installed on the remote machine and for the firewall to allow requests through  and for the Windows Remote Management service to be running on the target machine   You can configure the firewall by running the following script directly on the target machine  one off task   Enable-PSRemoting -force

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The output of Get-Service is a System ServiceProcess ServiceController  NET class that can operate on remote computers   How it accomplishes that  I don t know - probably DCOM or WMI   Once you ve gotten one of these from Get-Service  it can be passed into Stop-Service which most likely just calls the Stop   method on this object   That stops the service on the remote machine   In fact  you could probably do this as well    get-service -ComputerName remotePC -Name Spooler  Stop

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stop-service -inputobject   get-service -ComputerName remotePC -Name Spooler   This fails because of your variables -ComputerName remotePC needs to be a variable  remotePC or a string  remotePC  -Name Spooler same thing for spooler

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As far as I know  and I cant verify it now  you cannot stop remote services with the Stop-Service cmdlet or with  Net  it is not supported   Yes it works  but it stopes the service on your local machine  not on the remote computer   Now  if the above is correct  without remoting or wmi enabled  you could set a scheduled job on the remote system  using AT  that runs Stop-Service locally

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Based on the built-in Powershell examples  this is what Microsoft suggests  Tested and verified   To stop    Get-WmiObject Win32 Service -filter  name  IPEventWatcher   -ComputerName Server01  StopService     To start    Get-WmiObject Win32 Service -filter  name  IPEventWatcher   -ComputerName Server01  StartService

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