Restart services on remote servers by command
2024年9月28日
When I had to restart the print spooler service on some servers, I didn't want to log in to servers and do that from the GUI on Services... So I created a .bat file to restart services on remote servers.
You can restart specified services on multiple remote servers.
Prerequisites
- Windows Server.
- Ensure that the user executing the command has administrative privileges on each server.
- The source host must have port 445/tcp open to the target host.
Batch File (.cmd or .bat) Contents
Please replace the hostname (or IP address) and service name as necessary. By adding /user
after net use
, you will not have to log in to any server, and running the command as an administrator will not be required.
In the first place, net use
is not needed if you execute the .bat file with the logged in user with administrator privileges.
@echo off && setlocal
rem Server1
call :RestartService 192.168.0.1 "Spooler"
rem Server2
call :RestartService 192.168.0.2 "Spooler"
rem Server3
call :RestartService 192.168.0.3 "Spooler"
exit /b
rem Restart the service by the argument
rem %1: Remote Server
rem %2: Service Name
:RestartService
net use \%1ipc$
sc \%1 stop %2
:DoWhile
sc \%1 query %2 | findstr STATE | findstr STOPPED
if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 goto DoWhileExit
goto DoWhile
:DoWhileExit
sc \%1 start %2
net use \%1ipc$ /delete
exit /b
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