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Jim G.
Jim G.

Reputation: 15365

Azure DevOps On-Premise - How can I stop and delete a windows service on a remote machine?

I have an existing Windows service on a remote machine.

Here is what I need to do:

  1. Stop that service.
  2. Delete that service.
  3. Copy my build artifacts to the specified directory on that remote machine.
  4. Recreate that Windows service.
  5. Start the Windows service.

My problem:

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 9148

Answers (2)

Jim G.
Jim G.

Reputation: 15365

@Daniel Mann asked the right question.

First of all,

sc STOP $(serviceName)

should have been a red flag.

@Daniel Mann asked:

Does the service account that your agent is running under have appropriate permissions [to do this]?

But one should also ask:

Which machine are you looking to execute this against? The build agent?

This was, in fact, my problem. When I tested this release pipeline the first time, the target machine and the build agent just happened to be the same machine.

This was an unfortunate accident, because this was not to be the case for all releases.

Solution:

This is correct:

sc \\$(serviceMachine) STOP $(serviceName)

And @Daniel Mann was correct:

  • The service account that the build agent is running under must have the appropriate permissions to do this.

Upvotes: 3

Luiz Diogo Oliveira
Luiz Diogo Oliveira

Reputation: 11

There are a couple ways to achieve this, but I'm gonna describe one that I recommend using PowerShell:

  1. On your deployment tasks, add "Run PowerShell" task;

  2. Select inline script and paste the code bellow:

    Get-Service -DisplayName "YOUR_SERVICE_NAME" | Stop-Service
  3. Copy artifact files to destination folder (as you did);

  4. Repeat step 1 and paste the code below to re-create and start the service:

    $params = @{
  Name = "YOUR_SERVICE_NAME"
  BinaryPathName = "C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs"
  DependsOn = "NetLogon"
  DisplayName = "Test Service"
  StartupType = "Manual"
  Description = "This is a test service."
}
New-Service @params

You can read more about service creation parameters at Microsoft Docs:

Upvotes: 1

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