How to get the service name for sc

I need to enable/ disable the Windows Firewall on a Server 2008R2 core box but didn’t know what the Windows Firewall service name was for use with the sc command. Then I learnt it it has a sub-command called GetKeyName (and corresponding GetDisplayName, for the reverse operation) to get the name from the display name.

C:\> sc getkeyname "Windows Firewall"
[SC] GetServiceKeyName SUCCESS
Name = MpsSvc

C:\> sc getkeyname "Windows Firewall"

[SC] GetServiceKeyName SUCCESS

Name = MpsSvc

Nice!

Also, as a reminder to myself the sc config command is what you use to change the configuration of a service (make it disabled, manual, etc). When giving the options though be sure to include a space after the option. That is to say, the following works –

sc config MpsSvc start= Disabled

1	sc config MpsSvc start= Disabled

But the following won’t –

sc config MpsSvc start=Disabled

1	sc config MpsSvc start=Disabled