Powershell Quickee

As this title rolled off my fingers it made me laugh a little.

But hey, isn't everything in PowerShell a little quicker? At least that is the intent. Over the past few years I keep dabbling in PowerShell from time to time. I have just enough experience to know what can reasonably be done in the tool - without over extending it. <soapbox> It looks like there are some people who take this tool and use it to bang every nail they have. But that is another blog entry. </soapbox>

Here is the script I crufted up today for showing me all the services that are on a server set to run at startup (aka Automatic) and yet are NOT running now.

I was using the get-service cmdlet but it did not seem to be return the StartMode and State properties from a remote server (works locally fine). So I Googled up an alternative that uses WMI.

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