Question

I ve seen lots of scripts out there for manually stopping/starting services in a list, but how can I generate that list programatically of -just- the automatic services. I want to script some reboots, and am looking for a way to verify that everything did in fact start up correctly for any services that were supposed to.

Answer 1

Get-Service returns System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController objects that do not expose this information. Thus, you should use WMI for this kind of task: Get-WmiObject Win32_Service. Example that shows the required StartMode and formats the output a la Windows control panel:

Get-WmiObject Win32_Service |
Format-Table -AutoSize @(
     Name 
     DisplayName 
    @{ Expression =  State ; Width = 9 }
    @{ Expression =  StartMode ; Width = 9 }
     StartName 
)

You are interested in services that are automatic but not running:

# get Auto that not Running:
Get-WmiObject Win32_Service |
Where-Object { $_.StartMode -eq  Auto  -and $_.State -ne  Running  } |
# process them; in this example we just show them:
Format-Table -AutoSize @(
     Name 
     DisplayName 
    @{ Expression =  State ; Width = 9 }
    @{ Expression =  StartMode ; Width = 9 }
     StartName 
)

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