Service and process – shell{&}co

Get a service status on remote servers

With the following powershell script, you can get a service status on remote servers Script : $ErrorActionPreference = “SilentlyContinue” $strCategory = “computer” $objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $objSearcher.SearchRoot = $objDomain $objSearcher.Filter = (“(objectCategory=$strCategory)”) $colProplist = “name” ,

Generates a full-memory minidump of a process

The original source of this function is available on Github here You can use this function to generate a process dump file using Powershell. function Out-Minidump { [CmdletBinding()] Param ( [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $True, ValueFromPipeline = $True)] [System.Diagnostics.Process]

Get server hostnames on which MSSQLServer service is installed

Get server hostnames on which MSSQLServer service is installed With this simple script, you will be able to get the server names on which the MS SQL Server service is installed. First, an array is built with the computer names

Execute a cmdlet on a remote system with Invoke-Command

Execute a cmdlet on a remote system with Invoke-Command. Requirement : execute the command “winrm quickconfig” on the remote system. This script execute an Exchange cmdlet (enable-mailbox) on a remote Exchange server. This can be useful if you cannot or

Robocopy process management

This script launch 10 robocopy processes simultaneously to copy folders that begin with a letter from ‘a’ to ‘k’ Script : $userfolders = Get-ChildItem \\server\root_shared_folder | Where-Object {$_.Name -match “^[a-k]”} foreach ($homes in $userfolders) { if ((Get-Process -Name “robocopy”).count -le

Restart a service on remote servers

This script restart the service name “SMS Agent Host” on the servers listed in the file C:\temp\BOOK1.txt Script : ForEach($MachineName In $hosts){ $service = Get-Service -ComputerName $MachineName -name “sms agent host” Write-Host $MachineName, $service.status, $service.name (new-Object System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController(‘sms agent host’,$MachineName)).Stop() (new-Object

Monitor if a process is frozen

This script will be useful if you want to monitor if a process is frozen or not. The process manage files in a specific location (read, write and delete). The purpose is : check the number of files in the

Kill all instances of the same process name

This script kill all instances of the process “Robocopy” Script : (get-process |where {$_.processname -eq “Robocopy”}) | stop-process Reference : Using the Stop-Process Cmdlet Terminating a Process Syntax Stop-Process -name string[] [-passThru] [-Force] [-confirm] [-whatIf] [CommonParameters] Stop-Process [-id] Int32[] [-passThru]