How to check windows service is installed or not from azure devops command line task?

Question

Im using command line task in azure devops to install windows service.

First i need to check if service is already installed or not before going to uninstall it.

i use SC QUERY to check service exists or not

my full script as follows

@echo off
SC \\myserver QUERY servicename > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1060 GOTO MISSING
ECHO SERVICE FOUND UNINSTALLING!
SC \\myserver STOP servicename
SC \\myserver DELETE servicename
GOTO END

:MISSING
ECHO COULD NOT FIND SERVICE!
GOTO END

:END

this works fine in local environment , but when task runs it fails with following error.

##[error]Cmd.exe exited with code '1060'.

is anyone has a solution for this?

Answer 1

The reason for this is because the error still exists as DevOps exists the script. If you want to catch the specific error code you could exit with zero.

@echo off
SC \\myserver QUERY servicename > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1060 GOTO MISSING
ECHO SERVICE FOUND UNINSTALLING!
SC \\myserver STOP servicename
SC \\myserver DELETE servicename
GOTO END

:MISSING
ECHO COULD NOT FIND SERVICE!
EXIT 0

:END

Answer 2

Try using Batch Script task to run the script:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/batch-script?view=azure-devops