{"id":3554,"date":"2013-05-28T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/28\/powertip-find-services-with-the-same-dependencies-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-05-28T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-services-with-the-same-dependencies-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-services-with-the-same-dependencies-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Services with the Same Dependencies with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find services that have the same dependencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find services that have the same dependencies?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Service<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;<strong>RequiredServices<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>parameter, and supply the name of the dependent service. (The following example shows services that require the rpcss service on my laptop.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">PS C:\\&gt; Get-Service -RequiredServices rpcss<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Status&nbsp;&nbsp; Name&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DisplayName<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">&#8212;&#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Running&nbsp; DcomLaunch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DCOM Server Process Launcher<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Running&nbsp; RpcEptMapper&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RPC Endpoint Mapper<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find services that have the same dependencies. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find services that have the same dependencies? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Service&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;RequiredServices&nbsp;parameter, and supply the name of the dependent service. (The following example shows services that require the rpcss service on my laptop.) PS C:\\&gt; Get-Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,356,3,39,45],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-operating-system","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-services","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find services that have the same dependencies. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find services that have the same dependencies? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Service&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;RequiredServices&nbsp;parameter, and supply the name of the dependent service. (The following example shows services that require the rpcss service on my laptop.) PS C:\\&gt; Get-Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}