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Ben Power
Ben Power

Reputation: 1885

Powershell - Start Windows service with a parameter

I need to start a windows service via Powershell with a '1' as a parameter, like below:

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So basically I want to do something like this with powershell:

Start-Service _MyService 1 <- won't work

Googling has produced nothing of note on this, perhaps I'm looking for the wrong thing, but I can't believe it's not possible. Clues anyone?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 12898

Answers (2)

Tung
Tung

Reputation: 5444

An alternative is to use the Get-Service cmdlet to obtain a service controller, and then invoke its Start() method. 

# "ServiceName" != "Display Name"
$yourService = Get-Service "ServiceName" 
$yourService.Start(1)

If you need to supply multiple arguments (credit to @Mark):

$yourService.Start(@('arg1','arg2'))

Upvotes: 18

dotnetom
dotnetom

Reputation: 24901

You can invoke sc.exe that allows starting services with parameters:

Invoke-Expression "sc.exe start _MyService 1"

Upvotes: 3

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