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Automate Windows service actions using non-admin service accounts, powershell, and task scheduler – Part 3

Published January 18, 2020 by Craig Sorensen

In part 1 we wrote a script that will stop the print spooler process. We found if we ran it with a service account without…

Automate Windows service actions using non-admin service accounts, powershell, and task scheduler – Part 2

Published January 18, 2020 by Craig Sorensen

In the last section we looked at getting task scheduler configured and we received the following error: “Get-Service : Cannot open Service Control Manager on…

Automate Windows service actions using non-admin service accounts, powershell, and task scheduler – Part 1

Published December 27, 2019 by Craig Sorensen

This week I received a ticket from a user requesting help automating a Windows service state via Powershell and Windows Task Scheduler. The user had…