Restart-Service cmdlet with force flag

• Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:24 PM

   

   
  

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  I have a restart section of IIS services in a script, but i noticed it wasn't always working, so i added some debug code and found out something interesting:
  

  Restart-Service W3SVC,SMTPSVC,MSFtpsvc,WinRM,HTTPFilter -force 2>&1 | Tee-Object -File $env:temp\script_debug.log

  When it's not working, this is the debug output:

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  Restart-Service : Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed

  At C:\Test\testscript.ps1:59 char:20
  +     Restart-Service <<<<  W3SVC,SMTPSVC,MSFtpsvc,WinRM,HTTPFilter -force 2>&1  | Tee-Object -File $env:temp\dm-winlogs_debug.log
      + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Restart-Service], TimeoutException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RestartServiceCommand

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  I had previously read up on the "-force" parameter and thought this is just such a situation when force is useful:

     -force
         Override restrictions that prevent the command from succeeding, apart
         from security settings. e.g. -Force will stop and restart a
         service that has dependent services.

  Now a timeout prevented the command from succeeding, despite the use of "-force

  Any ideas what i should to make this work no matter what?

  Regards,

  Johan

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