Stop-CsWindowsService

Stop-CsWindowsService
    [[-Name] <String>]
    [-ComputerName <String>]
    [-Graceful]
    [-NoWait]
    [-Force]
    [-Report <String>]
    [-WhatIf]
    [-Confirm]
    [-LeaveClsAgentRunning]
    [-LeaveWebServerRunning]
    [<CommonParameters>]

Stop-CsWindowsService
    [-Graceful]
    [-InputObject <NTService>]
    [-NoWait]
    [-Force]
    [-Report <String>]
    [-WhatIf]
    [-Confirm]
    [-LeaveClsAgentRunning]
    [-LeaveWebServerRunning]
    [<CommonParameters>]

Many Skype for Business Server components run as standard Windows services; for example, the Conferencing Attendant application is actually a service named RTCCAA. If you need to stop a Skype for Business Server service, you can do so by using the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet.

Keep in mind that the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet can only stop Skype for Business Server services; an error will occur if you attempt to stop a non-Skype for Business Server service (such as the print spooler) using this cmdlet.

Functionally, the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet is very similar to the generic Windows PowerShell Stop-Service cmdlet; if you wanted to, you could use the Stop-Service cmdlet to stop a Skype for Business Server service. However, the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet includes a ComputerName parameter that makes it easy to stop a service on a remote computer: you simply include the ComputerName parameter followed by the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the remote computer. The Stop-Service cmdlet does not have a comparable parameter. In addition, the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet has a Report parameter that enables you to keep a log of any errors that might occur when calling that cmdlet.

The Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet does exactly what the name implies: it stops any service you ask it to stop. This includes services that have dependent services (services that can only run if the service you are attempting to stop is running). By default, if you try to stop a service that has dependent services, the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet will not only stop the service in question, but will stop all those dependent services as well. Because that could result in unexpected consequences, you can include the Graceful parameter when calling the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet. When you include the Graceful parameter, the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet will prevent the service from accepting any new requests. All existing service requests will remain as is; however, new requests will be rejected. As existing requests finish, those requests will not be replaced. Eventually, all the existing requests will be filled and the service will then shut down.

Stop-CsWindowsService -Name "RTCRGS"

The command shown in Example 1 stops the Response Group application service on the local computer. The Response Group application service is identified by including the Name parameter and the name of that service: RTCRGS.

Stop-CsWindowsService -Name "RTCRGS" -ComputerName atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com

Example 2 also stops the Response Group application service; in this example, however, that service is located on the remote computer atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com. To stop a service on a remote computer, include the ComputerName parameter followed by the FQDN of the remote computer.

Get-CsWindowsService | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like "*Call Park*"} | Stop-CsWindowsService

Example 3 demonstrates how you can stop a service even if you do not know the service name (in this example, RTCCPS). To do this, the command first calls the Get-CsWindowsService cmdlet without any parameters in order to return a collection of all the Skype for Business Server services on the local computer. This complete collection is then piped to the Where-Object cmdlet, which selects only those services where the DisplayName property includes the string value "Call Park". The filtered collection is then piped to the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet, which stops the Call Park application service.

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutBuffer, -OutVariable, -PipelineVariable, -ProgressAction, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

The Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet accepts pipelined instances of the Windows service object.

Instead, the Stop-CsWindowsService cmdlet stops instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.Core.NTService object.