Powershell ways of Achieve what you want !

Hi Folks, have you heard that there are many ways to achieve something with PowerShell?
That’s indeed true we only need to take in consideration how big is our script and how much interaction the script will do in your system because it can cause loops, resources consumption and in the end, there is a proper way to do it and you must follow that standard.

Getting properties of Windows service that is set to Automatic and it’s currently stopped

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-WmiObject -class Win32_service | Where-Object -Property StartMode -EQ -Value Auto | Where-Object -Property state -EQ -Value Stopped | Format-Table

ExitCode Name             ProcessId StartMode State   Status
-------- ----             --------- --------- -----   ------
    1067 Automaton                0 Auto      Stopped OK    
       0 gupdate                  0 Auto      Stopped OK    
       0 MapsBroker               0 Auto      Stopped OK    
       0 RemoteRegistry           0 Auto      Stopped OK    
       0 sppsvc                   0 Auto      Stopped OK    
       0 TrustedInstaller         0 Auto      Stopped OK    
       0 WbioSrvc                 0 Auto      Stopped OK    
       0 wuauserv                 0 Auto      Stopped OK    

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq 'Stopped' -and $_.StartType -eq 'Auto'}

Status   Name               DisplayName                           
------   ----               -----------                           
Stopped  Automaton          EMC SolVe Automaton                   
Stopped  gupdate            Google Update Service (gupdate)       
Stopped  MapsBroker         Downloaded Maps Manager               
Stopped  RemoteRegistry     Remote Registry                       
Stopped  sppsvc             Software Protection                   
Stopped  TrustedInstaller   Windows Modules Installer             
Stopped  WbioSrvc           Windows Biometric Service             
Stopped  wuauserv           Windows Update                        

Do you agree both achieve the end result but which one is better?

Here is a nice post about some best practices when scripting! Have fun

Best Practices when Scripting

Leave your comments, cheers, Michael