Start, stop and restart services on remote machines

Greetings!

I would like to share a couple of nifty commandlets that i build into out costume module. 
Start-RemoteService, Stop-RemoteService and Restart-RemoteService.

This is particular nice when PrintServer104 is troubeling you and you need to restart spooler.  Easy task, but normally you would either log onto the server and fire up whatever favorite way to stop a service or on a remote server start services.msc and remote connect to a the printserver, find the service and restart it.

With these commandlets it have become faster and easier.  In your favorite prompt (assuming that is a Powershell prompt) type

Restart-RemoteService -computer PrintServer104 -service spooler

You can also just choose to start a searvice by

Start-RemoteService -computer PrintServer104 -service spooler

or stop a service by

Stop-RemoteService -computer PrintServer104 -service spooler

Cut and past these functions into your custom module and save time and frustrations by getting the job done :)

Function Start-RemoteService
{
<#
 .Synopsis
 Send a command to remote server to start a specifik service
           
 .Description
 Send a command to remote server to start a specifik service
           
 .Parameter $Computer
 Computername
 
 .Parameter $service
 Service to restart
 
 .Example
 Start-RemoteService Server01 spoolsv
           
 Description
 -----------
 Will start the service named spoolsv on server Server01
    
 .Notes
 NAME:      Start-RemoteService
 AUTHOR:    Claus Søgaard
#>
 [CmdletBinding()]
 param([string]$strComputer,[String]$strService)
 Process
 {
   $result=(Get-WmiObject -computer $strComputer Win32_Service -Filter "Name='$strService'").InvokeMethod("startService",$null)
  if($result -eq "0")
  {
    Write-Host "Succesfully started $strService"
  }
  ELSE
  {
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red "Failed to start $service on $strComputer"
  }
 }
}


Function Stop-RemoteService
{
<#
 .Synopsis
 Send a command to remote server to stop a specifik service
           
 .Description
 Send a command to remote server to stop a specifik service
           
 .Parameter $Computer
 Computername
 
 .Parameter $service
 Service to stop
 
 .Example
 Stop-RemoteService Server01 spoolsv
           
 Description
 -----------
 Will stop the service named spoolsv on server Server01
    
 .Notes
 NAME:      Stop-RemoteService
 AUTHOR:    Claus Søgaard
#>
 [CmdletBinding()]
 param([string]$strComputer,[String]$strService)
 Process
 {
   $result=(Get-WmiObject -computer $strComputer Win32_Service -Filter "Name='$strService'").InvokeMethod("stopService",$null)
  if($result -eq "0")
  {
    Write-Host "Succesfully stopped $service on $strComputer"
  }
  ELSE
  {
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red "Failed in stopping $strService"
  }
 }
}


Function Restart-RemoteService
{
<#
 .Synopsis
 Send a command to remote server to restart a specifik service
           
 .Description
 Send a command to remote server to restart a specifik service
           
 .Parameter $Computer
 Computername
 
 .Parameter $service
 Service to restart
 
 .Example
 Restart-RemoteService Server01 spoolsv
           
 Description
 -----------
 Will restart the service named spoolsv on server Server01
    
 .Notes
 NAME:      Start-RemoteService
 AUTHOR:    Claus Søgaard
#>
 [CmdletBinding()]
 param([Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)][string]$Computer,
       [Parameter(Position=1,Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)][String]$service)
 Process
 {
   Stop-RemoteService $computer $service
  Start-Sleep 1
  Start-RemoteService $computer $service
 }
}