Description

Being someone who’s converted from Exchange to Lync, I have the luxury of cmdlets for managing Lync services. This includes starting, stopping, and querying those services. I’ve heard from a few Exchange guys who have said it would be nice if the Exchange guys had the same ability. Sure, you can manually type a PowerShell query each time, but why not convert that into some functions? I’ve created a module that has three functions in it. Start-ExWindowsService, which will start any Exchange service that is not disabled and not currently running. Stop-ExWindowsService will stop all running Exchange services. Get-ExWindowsService, which will display all Exchange services and their status and startup type. And finally, Set-ExWindowsServiceRecoveryOptions sets all Exchange related services to automatically restart in the event of a service failure.

Syntax

Start-ExWindowsService [[-ComputerName] ] [[-Name] ] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] []

Stop-ExWindowsService [[-ComputerName] ] [[-Name] ] [-Force] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] []

Get-ExWindowsService [[-ComputerName] ] [[-Name] ] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm ] []

Set-ExWindowsServiceRecoveryOptions [[-ComputerName] ] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]

Installation

Open PowerShell and type $env:PSModulePath. Note that it will generally include two paths. One is to c:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\. Placing the module in this location will make it available to everyone who uses that computer. The other path is to a subfolder of your My Documents folder. Something like C:\Users\administrator\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules. Placing the module in there will make it available just to you. In either case, unzip the contents of the zip file, including the folder, to the modules folder. One thing to note: if you place the module in your personal modules folder, it will not show in the list when you run Get-Module -ListAvailable. But it will still work fine. Import the module by typing Import-Module ExchangeServices

Download

v1.1 – 01-26-2015 – ExchangeServices.v1.1.zip

v1.0 – 04-01-2014 – ExchangeServices.v1.0.zip

Changelog

See the changelog for information on what’s changed/included in each version.

This is the changelog for ExchangeServices. You will find a complete list of released versions, their dates, and the features and issues addressed in each. Please refer to the script’s main page for more information including download links, installation details, and more.

v1.0 – 04-01-2014

1. Original version