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Find Required Services with PowerShell

Posted on June 27, 2012

Here’s a little PowerShell tidbit to get the status of all the required services. That is, the services that other services depend upon. When using Get-Service, this is the RequiredServices property which will be a collection of service objects. get-service | where {$_.status -eq “running”} | select -expand RequiredServices I’m intentionally omitting and results so…

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Find Non System Service Accounts with PowerShell and WMI

Posted on July 5, 2011

As easy as Get-Service is to use in PowerShell, it has one limitation for IT Pros: it can’t show you what account the service is running under. In old school terms, “What is the service account?” Fortunately you can get that information using WMI. Here’s a query you can use that takes advantage of some…

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