This article is the next installment in our PowerShell Studio Project series and covers the basics of working with Windows Service Projects. Windows Services are programs that run in the background, with no user interaction. Services can start automatically when…
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We recently added support for a more refined handling of events in PowerShell based Windows services—allowing for the handling of Start, Stop, and Run events separately. Please see this article for details. https://www.sapien.com/blog/2018/02/27/new-powershell-service-template-for-primalscript-2018/
The latest service builds of PrimalScript 2018…
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Last week we introduced a new PrimalScript template for Windows PowerShell which makes writing Windows Services much easier. In this article, we will show you how to use MSI Builder to create an installer for your Windows Services.
We created…
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PrimalScript 2018 supports advanced functionality for Windows services written in PowerShell and packaged with PrimalScript 2018 or PowerShell Studio 2018. While your old code will still work unmodified with this packager engine as it detects the presence of the new…
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Previously I showed you the new Windows Application engine (https://www.sapien.com/blog/2017/06/14/new-script-engines-for-windows-powershell/) and the Windows System Tray engine https://www.sapien.com/blog/2017/07/10/creating-a-system-tray-application-with-powershell/.
Today I will show you the last of the three new engines, the Windows Service engine.
Writing a Windows Service can be a…
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One drawback to the service objects returned from Get-Service is that you can’t see what account the service is running under, often referred to as the service account. This will be something like LocalService or perhaps even a special user…
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The other day I showed you how to use ADSI and PowerShell to manage services on remote computers. Since the ADSI type adapter is admittedly “kludgy” at times, I put together a script that you could use like a cmdlet…
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In PowerShell v1.0, if you want to manage services on a remote computer, you likely used WMI and the Get-WMIObject cmdlet. But there is another solution using ADSI. If you use the WinNT provider, you can access all of the…
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