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I was logged on directly to the server that was giving me the odd results, so I rebooted it after hours and then everything came back correctly. Oh well, that's Windows.
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I was logged on directly to the server that was giving me the odd results, so I rebooted it after hours and then everything came back correctly. Oh well, that's Windows.

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When I run the powershell commands on my Exchange Server, Get-service and Get-WmiObject win32_service I get very different lists of services. The Get-WmiObject command only returns 11 services, while the Get-service command returns the long list of services that you see when you open the services applet.<br />
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This does not seem to be the case on my domain controller, where both commands return a long list of services.<br />
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Why would there be a difference?
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When I run the powershell commands on my Exchange Server, Get-service and Get-WmiObject win32_service I get very different lists of services. The Get-WmiObject command only returns 11 services, while the Get-service command returns the long list of services that you see when you open the services applet.

This does not seem to be the case on my domain controller, where both commands return a long list of services.

Why would there be a difference?

Get-service and Get-WmiObject win32_service return very different list of services

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Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to the Component Object Model (COM) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems as well as WS-Management and Common Information Model (CIM) enabling management of remote Linux systems and network devices.