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Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:50 am**

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Product, version and build: PowerShell Studio 2018 v5.5.149
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Operating system: server 2016
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I was looking at this blog post:
https://www.sapien.com/blog/2018/02/27/ ... ript-2018/

Looked for more information for powershell studio and saw this:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12396#p66851

where he references the first article and says this:
If you use the functions mentioned in the following article, you can respond to calls to close the service.

Do I need to import anything or if I just name the functions the same as in the article and set the deploy settings to a service it will just work?

Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:54 am**

Yes, naming the functions accordingly and packaging it as a service should work fine.

Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:02 am**

is there any way you could open one of those templates, save it as a .ps1 and send it to me so I don't have to type all the comment code in there?

Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:59 am**

Trying it with this really simple set of code does not seem to work, I do not see any events in the application log:

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function Start-MyService
{
	$global:bRunService = $true
	$global:bServiceRunning = $false
	$global:testvar = 0
}

function Invoke-MyService
{
	$global:bServiceRunning = $true
	while ($global:bRunService)
	{
		try
		{
			$global:testvar = $global:testvar + 1
			Write-Host "Testvar is $global:testvar"
		}
		catch
		{
			Write-Host $_.Exception.Message
		}
		Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
	}
	$global:bServiceRunning = $false
}

function Stop-MyService
{
	$global:bRunService = $false
	$countdown = 30
	while ($global:bServiceRunning -and $countdown -gt 0)
	{
		Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
		$countdown = $countdown - 1
	}
}

Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:52 pm**

Looks fine. Please describe exactly what you have done with it to run it as a service.

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:36 pm**

Type out Code

Deploy -> Packager -> Settings

Script Engine:
SAPIEN PowerShell V3 Host (Windows Service)
STA Mode unchecked

Output Settings:
Generate .config file checked
Manifest is embed a default manifest
run mode is current user

Execution Restrictions, version information, build options not touched.

Deploy -> Packager -> Build

put resulting executable in a folder
open command prompt and browse to folder
testservice /i
net start testservice
go look in application event log, see nothing.

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:48 pm**

Have you verified in the services pane that your service is there and running?

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 7:21 pm**

services indicates that it is running, get-process says that it is running, and I also see it in the task manager. The event log shows that it was successfully started. I also tried having it append a text file instead of attempting to write to the event log, but the file never is appended.

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:05 am**

I have taken your script and packaged it as a service (V3, 64 bit), all is in the attached zip file.

: service 1.png (217.09 KiB) Viewed 4466 times

: Service 2.png (389.36 KiB) Viewed 4466 times

Verify that this runs as desired on your system. Note that the service name is 'PowerShell Test Service'

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:07 am**

That does run as desired, yes.
If I build the included code in the zip, it fails to operate properly.

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