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JCJohnson76
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I will like to run a exe located in a particular directory.  After exe is performed I will like then to a restart a service.  

I will like to run this exe on all Domain Controllers in my environment.  Does anyone know how to performed this in Powershell.

The cmdlets I will like to use for the DC's are "Get-ADDomainControllers"

The user the foreach statement.

Example of directory: Path of the exe;  Filename of exe (watchdog.exe)


Can someone please provide the syntax for this
D:\Program files\Monitor\
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FOXActive Directory/Exchange Engineer
Top Expert 2015

Commented:
Is the .exe sitting on each domain controller?
JCJohnson76

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Commented:
yes; same path
FOXActive Directory/Exchange Engineer
Top Expert 2015
Commented:
Try the below

$DC=Get-ADDomainController | ft samaccountname | foreach{start-process -filepath 'D:\Program files\Monitor\watchdog.exe' | Restart-Service theservicename
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JCJohnson76

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Commented:
does not work;

Lets use another example

Lets say Systernal "pskill" is locate under the c:\tools\    This path is located on all DC's

And I have notepad running on all DC"s and I want to use pskill to kill this process.  How would I be able to do it using Get-ADDomaincontrollers
IT Infrastructure Architect
Commented:
pskill can be used to remotely kill the processes.

See the example below..
Import-Module Activedirectory
Get-ADDomainController -Filter * | %{
	& 'C:\Tools\pskill.exe' "\\$($_.name)" notepad
}

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Pskill.exe should be there in the specified path where you run the script.
JCJohnson76

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Subsun,

Thanks, it worked a like a charm

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