The Get-Service cmdlet is used for retrieving the services installed on the local computer and the remote computers as well along with their Start type, status, name and display name of the services.
By default Get-Service returns information about local computer services unless the –ComputerName parameter is specified for the remote computers.
It is also possible to retrieve the dependent services.
Syntax
Get-Service
[[-Name] <String[]>] [[-DisplayName] <String[]>
[-DependentServices] [-RequiredServices] [-Include <String[]>] [-Exclude <String[]>] [-InputObject <ServiceController[]>] []
Parameters
-DependentServices
Indicates that this cmdlet gets only the services that depend upon the specified service.
-DisplayName
Specifies, as a string array, the display names of services to be retrieved. Wildcards are permitted.
-Exclude
Specifies, as a string array, a service or services that this cmdlet excludes from the operation. The value of this parameter qualifies the Name parameter. Enter a name element or pattern, such as s*. Wildcards are permitted.
-Include
Specifies, as a string array, a service or services that this cmdlet includes in the operation. The value of this parameter qualifies the Name parameter. Enter a name element or pattern, such as s*. Wildcards are permitted.
-InputObject
Specifies ServiceController objects representing the services to be retrieved. Enter a variable that contains the objects, or type a command or expression that gets the objects. You can pipe a service object to this cmdlet.
-Name
Specifies the service names of services to be retrieved. Wildcards are permitted.
-RequiredServices
Get only the services that this service requires.
Indicates that this cmdlet gets only the services that this service requires. This parameter gets the value of the ServicesDependedOn property of the service.
Examples
This example gets all of the services on the computer.
The default display shows the status, service name, and display name of each service.
Get-Service
This example retrieves services with service names that begin with wua.
Get-Service “wua*”
Which displayed the following
Status Name DisplayName ------ ---- ----------- Stopped wuauserv Windows Update
You can get a list of services like this
Get-Service -Name DPS, VSS, Spooler
This example displays only the services with a status of Running.
Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”}
To get the depended services information of the particular service, use the below command.
Get-Service “WinRM” -RequiredServices
You should see something like this
Status Name DisplayName ------ ---- ----------- Running RPCSS Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Running HTTP HTTP Service
With the exclude parameter, service names are excluded and the rest of the services will be displayed.
This will exclude services beginning with A, B and including vmi
Get-Service -Exclude A*, B*, *vmi*
You can display all the properties for a service using Format-List
Get-Service Winmgmt | Format-List *
This displayed the following
Name : Winmgmt
RequiredServices : {RPCSS}
CanPauseAndContinue : True
CanShutdown : True
CanStop : True
DisplayName : Windows Management Instrumentation
DependentServices : {MBAMService, NcaSvc, iphlpsvc}
MachineName : .
ServiceName : Winmgmt
ServicesDependedOn : {RPCSS}
ServiceHandle :
Status : Running
ServiceType : Win32OwnProcess, Win32ShareProcess
StartType : Automatic
Site :
Container :
