Managing Windows services
When you are working with Microsoft-based systems, there may be times where you need to interact with Windows services. PowerShell offers a variety of cmdlets that enable you to work with these services. To start, you can review the services on a system by leveraging the get-service
cmdlet. By calling the get-service
cmdlet, you can retrieve the full list of services on a system. If you want to obtain a filtered view into a specific service, you can leverage the –Name
parameter, referencing a specific name of a service. After executing this command, you will see Status
, Name
, and DisplayName
of the service. You may also issue the –RequiredServices
parameter to display the services that are required to be running, for that particular service to be functional. You may also use -DependentServices
to view the services that are dependent on that service.
To use the get-service
cmdlet to query the Windows Audio Service, do the following:
Get-service –...