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CrazyCoder
CrazyCoder

Reputation: 2378

Start and stop windows service on a Azure VM using powershell

Using powershell, I need to do the following steps.
1. Login to Azure account.
2. Create a VM from the Image.
3. In the image , there is windows service.So when we created the VM, that windows service is already running on it.Stop that service.
4. Copy some binaries into the VM to a specific folder.
5. Start the service again.

Out of all these, I was able to acheive 1 and 2 steps. And I couldn't find any relevant procedure for rest of the steps. Below is the script I have used to do 1 and 2.

Login-AzureRMAccount    

$UserName = "[email protected]"
$Password = ConvertTo-SecureString "password" -AsPlainText -Force
$psCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($UserName, $Password)    
New-AzureRmVm `
    -ResourceGroupName "RGN" `
    -Name "VMName" `
    -ImageName "ImageName" `
    -Location "West US" `
    -Credential $psCred

So can anyone help me or guide me how the rest of the steps be done.
Thanks in advance for your time.

EDIT : The command for stopping the service is
Stop-Service -Name "CPS Dev UniSimServices" -Force

But this works, if I log into the VM and run this command. I want to connect to the newly created VM through powershell from the remote machine itself (without logging into it), and stop the service. How can I do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6252

Answers (2)

Charles Xu
Charles Xu

Reputation: 31384

You can interact with the VM using extension without connecting into it. You can use the PowerShell command with the custom script:

Set-AzureRmVMExtension -ResourceGroupName "myResourceGroupAutomate" `
    -ExtensionName "IIS" `
    -VMName "myVM" `
    -Location "EastUS" `
    -Publisher Microsoft.Compute `
    -ExtensionType CustomScriptExtension `
    -TypeHandlerVersion 1.8 `
    -SettingString '{"commandToExecute":"powershell Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server; powershell Add-Content -Path \"C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\Default.htm\" -Value $($env:computername)"}'

Update

If you really want to use a custom script for the extension, you can use the command like this:

Set-AzureRmVMCustomScriptExtension -ResourceGroupName myResourceGroup `
    -VMName myVM `
    -Location myLocation `
    -FileUri myURL `
    -Run 'myScript.ps1' `
    -Name DemoScriptExtension

For more details, see Set-AzureRmVMCustomScriptExtension.

Upvotes: 2

xavier
xavier

Reputation: 123

To stop a service use the following command Stop-Service -Name "NameOfService" -Force, take a look on the docs of Stop-Service for any question. Then copy the files that you need via robocopy, Copy-Item or whatever and Start-Service -Name "NameOfService". If you have any problem to copy files from your local or remote machine to your VM just post it.

As said in the other answer you can use the Set-AzureRmVMCustomScriptExtension, the following example executes in the VM a script upload to a Blob Storage account

Set-AzureRmVMCustomScriptExtension -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -Location $LocationName -VMName $ServersName -Name $scriptName -StorageAccountName $NameStorageAccount -FileName $fileName -Run $fileName -ContainerName $NameCOntainerStorage -Argument "-param1 $param1"

another option is using the command Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand, for example

Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -Name $ServersName -CommandId 'RunPowerShellScript' -ScriptPath "pathToFileExecute" -Parameter @{"Param" = "$Param"}

note: the argument -ScriptPath can be for example a shared path like \VM\e$\script.ps1 or local path.

last option is by using the Invoke-Command, for example:

Invoke-command -ComputerName $server -crdential $objectcredential -scriptblock {Stop-Service -Name "nameService" -force}

Upvotes: 1

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