How to find, stop and disable a Windows service using Powershell

Question

I am trying to find a service, stop it and then disable it remotely using Powershell. It can find and stop but cannot disable. For disabling, I have to run the Set-Service command separately. Can it be done in one line?

The following code-snippet will stop the Print Spooler service, but will not disable it:

$ip = "10.10.10.10"
$svc_name = "Spooler"
get-service -ComputerName $ip | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $svc_name} |  Stop-Service | Set-Service -StartupType  Disabled

The following code-snippet will stop and disable the Print Spooler service:

$ip = "10.10.10.10"
$svc_name = "Spooler"
get-service -ComputerName $ip | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $svc_name} |  Stop-Service
Set-Service $svc_name -StartupType  Disabled

Powershell version is 5.1.14393.2969.

Edit: The following line will also find and disable. So, it looks like I can give two instructions with pipeline.

get-service -ComputerName $ip | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $svc_name} | Set-Service -StartupType  Disabled

Solution

You need to use Set-Service to set the startup type, as outlined in your question:

Set-Service -StartupType Disabled $svc_name

If you want to do it in "one line", you can use the -PassThru argument on Stop-Service to return the service object which can then be sent down the pipeline (you also don't need a Where-Object clause, Get-Service can filter on service name as well):

Get-Service -ComputerName $ip $svc_name | Stop-Service -PassThru | Set-Service -StartupType Disabled

You had this close in your original question, but it didn't work because you didn't use the
-PassThru parameter on Stop-Service. As a note, many cmdlets that don't return an object by default do include a -PassThru parameter to return an object that can further processed if necessary, this isn't limited to Stop-Service by any means.

Comments

[codewario]

This answer is bloated for what the OP was asking for. This should probably be trimmed, have the commented out code removed, and the relevant pieces to the question explained.