powershell restart-service on many computers

Question

_{Wednesday, March 6, 2013 8:24 PM}

I need to remote restart a service on a bunch of machines.  This command works great on a single machine:  

Restart-Service -InputObject $(Get-Service -Computer computer1 -Name service1);

But I need to pipe/input a list of many computers in place of computer1. Is there a quick and easy way to do that?

Thank you,

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_{Wednesday, March 6, 2013 8:35 PM ✅Answered | 6 votes}

Get-Content C:\SomeFile.txt | ForEach-Object { Restart-Service -InputObject $(Get-Service -Computer $_ -Name service1) }

You can try that, if that doesn't work then I'd do

$computers = Get-Content C:\SomeFile.txt

ForEach ($computer in $computers)

{

  Restart-Service -InputObject $(Get-Service -Computer $computer -Name service1);

}

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_{Wednesday, March 6, 2013 8:31 PM}

How are you storing the computer names?

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_{Wednesday, March 6, 2013 8:32 PM}

just a text file

_{Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:24 PM | 1 vote}

 I use this to start services on remote systems:

$computers = get-content C:\temp\justatextfile.txt
ForEach ($entry in $computers)
{
Get-Service remoteregistry -ComputerName $entry | start-service 
}

_{Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:26 PM | 2 votes}

$computers = get-content C:\temp\justatextfile.txt
ForEach ($entry in $computers)
{
Get-Service remoteregistry -ComputerName $entry | stop-service 
}

Use this to stop a remote service.

_{Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:54 PM}

Get-Content C:\SomeFile.txt | ForEach-Object { Restart-Service -InputObject $(Get-Service -Computer $_ -Name service1) }

That's perfect, thanks,

_{Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:49 AM}

Thanks Clay,

Its  helped me  alot.

_{Monday, June 2, 2014 6:12 PM}

It runs perfect... Thanks a ton.

Can we use an option "On error resume next"?

_{Friday, June 6, 2014 10:00 PM | 1 vote}

It runs perfect... Thanks a ton.

Can we use an option "On error resume next"?

You can one set the ErrorAction parameter to SilentlyContinue, and also set the ErrorVariable so you can capture any errors and do something if one happens

Restart-Service -Name SomeService -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable myError

if ($myError)
{
  Do Something
}

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_{Thursday, May 25, 2017 10:03 AM}

Hello Clayman2,

Is there anyway I can pass the server local creds in the above command?

Regards

_{Monday, July 24, 2017 4:15 PM}

How would I output the servername and success/failed status for each?