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PowerShell Script remote execution

I have a simple powershell script that sets a service and starts it. I want to run this against a list of computers instead of typing each computer in individually... is there a way to do this with powershell?

BSonPosh

What does the Script do specifically? While the native powershell commands like get-service and start-service do not work against remote machines, most of this can be done with .NET.

rtmcmullen

ASKER

The script sets a service to Automatic and then starts the service.

BSonPosh

Try something like this... I havent tested it, but it should work.

###############################
Param($server,$list,$service,[switch]$verbose)
if($Verbose){$VerbosePreference = "Continue"}
if($list)
{
foreach($srv in $list)
{
$query = "Select * from Win32_Service where Name='$service'"
$myService = get-WmiObject -query $query -computer $srv
$myService.ChangeStartMode("Automatic")
$myService.Start()
}
}
if($server)
{
$query = "Select * from Win32_Service where Name='$service'"
$myService = get-WmiObject -query $query -computer $server
$myService.ChangeStartMode("Automatic")
$myService.Start()
}

rtmcmullen

ASKER

I'm a beginner with powershell, can you break this down a little for me?

Say the service is DHCP, and I wanted to call the list it would pulling from ServerList.txt

Thanks

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