Windows Administrator Basics: Managing Services from Command Line

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Managing Windows services from command line

 Part1: Windows Administrator Basics: Windows Services
Part3: Windows Administrator Basics: Managing Windows services from Powershell


Net Command: You can use NET START and NET STOP command to start and stop Windows service.

Using Net command to start a Windows Service

NET START   < ServiceName >


Using Net command to stop a Windows Service

NET STOP < Service Name >




SC (Service Control) Command : SC.exe is a powerful command line tool to manage Windows Services. This can be used to Query, Start,Stop,Create or Delete a Windows service. This tool can manage the services on remote computer as well. In this article, we are going to explore Query , start and stop options only.

Query Service status of specific service on Local machine

 SC QUERY < Service Name >



Query Service status of specific service on Remote machine

 SC < \\Computer Name > QUERY < Service Name >


Query Service status of all services on local machine

 SC QUERY 



Stop a Service on local machine

 SC STOP < Service Name >


Start a Service on local machine

 SC START < Service Name >




Start a service on Remote machine

 SC < \\Computer Name > START < Service Name >


Stop a service on Remote machine

 SC < \\Computer Name > STOP < Service Name >




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