Comments on: Starting and stopping services across an entire domain

By: Zman

Zman — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:53:43 +0000

Thanks for the tool.
it saved a lot of time for the help desk folks who forgot to enable one of the services in the images.

I created a script and with GPO they were very happy.

By: Jay L.

Jay L. — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:41:57 +0000

Thank you very much for this super useful script.

One thing I have noticed is that this runs great on my XP and 2003 systems but it has issues when it attempts a Windows 7 system. I know this was written in 2006 but have you possibly done any revisions for this? or is there possibly a newer tool I should be using?

Thanks again,
-Jay

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:38:43 +0000

The remoteservice.exe gives the following error.

C:\Documents and Settings\PC1\Desktop>remoteservice.exe Servername
stop administrator password

-Authenticating with \\Servername
-Error: Could not connect to remote host

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:52:55 +0000

Hi, This looks like just what i’m looking for. I looked at the vb script. I’m not familiar with scripting. Where do I enter all the computers in the script?

Thanks,

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:21:30 +0000

Thank you for the information. The remoteservice.exe works well and has saved me some headaches.

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:17:29 +0000

You would need to use something else to do what you want.

You could use Network Administrator to do both:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/NetworkAdministrator.htm

First, set it to manual or automatic

Then start the service – much easier than the command line tool.

Look for the “Services” plugin to get you started.

By: Faez

Faez — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:54:13 +0000

I have the administrative access but i found out that the service is disabled
when i change the starting status to automatic then i can start the service using your tool.

how would I change the starting status to automatic so i can your tool??

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:32:16 +0000

You need to have administrative access to the machines you are trying to access – run it from a domain administrator account

By: Faez

Faez — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:34:14 +0000

I did what you instructed me and it worked, thanks
but when i execute the command, it processes and then it gives me
-stopping service
-Error: Access Denied

what should i do to overcome the error??

By: Faez

Faez — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:54:20 +0000

I have problem with remoteservice.exe
I can’t run the exe.
when I double click on it, a quick cmd page pop up and disappear and then when i use cmd typing the command remoteservice.exe, the cmd says it is not recognized.

any commands??

Steve Says: You need to download it to a location you can access from the command line, then you can type remoteservice.exe with the arguments I described above