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Restart a service, and its dependents remotely in Windows

Normally after running Windows updates there are a few servers in our infrastructure that our monitoring software (SolarWinds) shows as having problems. Normally this is flagged as being the netman ...
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Best practive to verify IIS or a ISS website is up?

We have an internal IIS server that hosts several websites that redirects to external hosted web applications. Occasionally people will do nutty things like restart servers, stop services, unplug ...
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How can I systematically shut down Windows services in order?

We have this open source application that has three (3) services. For the purpose of this question, let's call them A, B, and C. Now, they have to be shut down in a specific order. That order would ...
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Using PowerShell Restart-Service cmdlet with a service that has an instance name

I want to restart a service on a remote machine using PowerShell. The service has both a displayname and an instancename. Can I use the Restart-Service cmdlet to do this? I don't see an instancename ...
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With powershell, how do I find out which user is running a service?

As mentioned in the title, how to find out which user is running a service with powershell?
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Is it possible to add a Windows service dependency using powershell?

I know there is this sc.exe where you can add and set Windows service dependencies, but I was wondering if the same thing can be done using Powershell.
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What's the best way to instruct the network to run a Windows Service during a specified time interval?

Windows 7 Search Indexing service is causing some problems on our network. We get a ton of use out of it, but can no longer run it during the day while users are actively working. Because search ...
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How to set Windows Services permissions from Powershell?

I need to grant a specific account SERVICE_START permissions for a given Windows service. There seems to be some methods for doing so here, but would prefer a method that's native to PowerShell and ...
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What services do you use? I need to run different windows scenarios

Notice when you start windows in safe mode how fast it runs because there are only a minimal set of services started. Sometimes there are so many unnecesary services running that I feel like I want to ...