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dthrasher
Asked: 2012-08-18 10:45:16 +0800 CST

Using PowerShell Restart-Service cmdlet with a service that has an instance name

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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 parameter, and I can't seem to make the "displayname$instancename" syntax work.

This syntax does not work:

Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {Restart-Service -displayname 'DisplayName$InstanceName' -PassThru}

I thought at first the problem was the $ character, but I found that this syntax does work:

Get-Service 'displayname$instancename'
windows-server-2008

2 Answers

  1. Try switching to single quotes in the first command. The double quotes are preforming variable substitution.

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  2. I use the following code to restart services on remote systems. You might need to add the -credentials tag if you don't have permissions. This is really nice because it works on Server 2003/Windows XP boxes as well.

    $Service = "InstanceNameOfService"
$Computer = "MyComputer"
$varService = Get-WmiObject -computername $Computer -class win32_service | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq $Service }
$varService.restartservice()
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