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Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to start a service on a remote machine. How can I start a service on a remote machine? To start a service on a local machine:Get-Service -Name bits  | Start-serviceBut if you try to use the same technique on a remote machine, it tries to start the service on your local machine:Get-Service ...

Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover shares on remote systems.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been asked to discover the shares on some remote servers. How can I do that? —OL  Hello OL, Honorary Scripting Guy, Richa...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to change output object property names.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to change the property names of my output objects?  The easiest way to achieve this to use Select-Object and a calculated field: Get-WmiObject -Class win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName webr201 | select @{N='ComputerName'; E...

Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to automate health tests across your server estate.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been asked to test the service health on my servers. How can I do that? —GK  Hello GK, Honorary Scripting G...

Summary: Discover all of the event logs on a server by using Windows PowerShell.  How can I discover the event logs that are available on my server?  There two ways to do this. If you want the classic-type event logs, use: Get-EventLog –List If you want to see all of the event logs, including the new style logs that were introduced ...