Just a quick post to show you my new preferred method to enable and start a service. Until yesterday I opened a RDP connection to the remote server, then I fired the services.msc console and selected the service to enable, double-clicked on it and modified its settings.
Today things have changed and Powershell does it better. Just fire a Powershell session and execute the following cmdlet:
get-service -computername yourserver -name "windows installer" | set-service -StartupType "automatic" get-service -computername yourserver -name "windows installer" | start-service get-service -computername yourserver -name "windows installer" Status Name DisplayName ------ ---- ----------- Running MSIServer Windows Installer
Of course you can use aliases to be quicker. Start by finding them with:
Get-Alias | ?{$_.definition -like "*service*"} CommandType Name Definition ----------- ---- ---------- Alias gsv Get-Service Alias sasv Start-Service Alias spsv Stop-Service
The previous command lines can now be rewritten like this:
gsv -computername yourserver -name "windows installer" | set-service -StartupType "automatic" gsv -computername yourserver -name "windows installer" | sasv gsv -computername yourserver -name "windows installer" Status Name DisplayName ------ ---- ----------- Running MSIServer Windows Installer
Hope this helps.
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