{"id":72282,"date":"2015-07-08T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/07\/08\/powertip-find-status-of-range-of-services-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:47:04","slug":"powertip-find-status-of-range-of-services-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-status-of-range-of-services-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Status of Range of Services with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find the status of a range of services.<\/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 find the status of a range of services that have an initial letter that <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;does not begin with V through Z?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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&nbsp;<b>Get-Service<\/b>&nbsp;with the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Exclude<\/b>&nbsp;parameter, and supply a wildcard character set that represents <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the letters V through Z:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Service -Exclude [V-Z]*<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the status of a range of services. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the status of a range of services that have an initial letter that &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;does not begin with V through Z? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-Service&nbsp;with the&nbsp;&ndash;Exclude&nbsp;parameter, and supply a wildcard character set that [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-72282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the status of a range of services. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the status of a range of services that have an initial letter that &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;does not begin with V through Z? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-Service&nbsp;with the&nbsp;&ndash;Exclude&nbsp;parameter, and supply a wildcard character set that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282","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=72282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282\/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=72282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}