{"id":3080,"date":"2016-06-01T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:32:12","slug":"get-a-list-of-services-and-log-on-as-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/powershell\/get-a-list-of-services-and-log-on-as-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a list of services and &#8220;Log On As&#8221; accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanted to find what account our NetBackup service is running under on a bunch of servers &#8211;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \">\"server1\", \"server2\", \"server3\", \"server4\" | %{ Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -ComputerName $_ | ?{ $_.Name -eq \"NetBackup Client Service\" } } | ft SystemName,Name,StartName<\/pre>\n<p>You have to use WMI for this coz <code>Get-Service<\/code> doesn&#8217;t show the Log On As user.<\/p>\n<p>Wheee!! Had a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsnover\/status\/737989715530534912\">tweet from Jeffrey Snover<\/a> for this post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rakheshster\">@rakheshster<\/a> Try this form to speed things up:<br \/> Gwmi Win32_Service -cn S1,S2,S2 -Filter &#8216;Name = &#8220;NetBackup Client Service&#8221;&#8216; | ft<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jsnover (@jsnover) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsnover\/status\/737989715530534912\">June 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following on that tweet I noticed something odd. <\/p>\n<p>The following command works &#8211;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \">Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -cn server1,server2 -Filter 'Name= \"NetBackup Client Service\"'<\/pre>\n<p>Or this &#8211;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \">Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -cn @(\"server1\",\"server2\") -Filter 'Name= \"NetBackup Client Service\"'<\/pre>\n<p>In the second one I am explicitly casting the arguments as an array.<\/p>\n<p>But this variant doesn&#8217;t work &#8211;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \">$Servers = \"server1\",\"server2\"\r\nGet-WmiObject Win32_Service -cn $Server -Filter 'Name= \"NetBackup Client Service\"'<\/pre>\n<p>That generates the following error &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)<br \/>At line:1 char:1<br \/>+ Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -cn $Servers -Filter &#8216;Name= &#8220;NetBackup Client Service &#8230;<br \/>+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 + CategoryInfo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : InvalidOperation: (:) [Get-WmiObject], COMException<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 + FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMICOMException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand<\/p>\n<p>Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)<br \/>At line:1 char:1<br \/>+ Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -cn $Servers\u00a0 -Filter &#8216;Name= &#8220;NetBackup Client Service &#8230;<br \/>+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 + CategoryInfo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : InvalidOperation: (:) [Get-WmiObject], COMException<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 + FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMICOMException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The error is generated for each entry in the array.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like when I pass the list of servers as an array variable PowerShell uses a different way to connect to each server (PowerShell remoting\/ WinRM) while if I specify the list in-line it behaves differently. I didn&#8217;t search much on this but found this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PowerShell\/comments\/246pn7\/rpc_server_unavailable_for_getwmiobject_against\/\">Reddit thread<\/a> with the same issue. Something to keep in mind &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanted to find what account our NetBackup service is running under on a bunch of servers &#8211; &#8220;server1&#8221;, &#8220;server2&#8221;, &#8220;server3&#8221;, &#8220;server4&#8221; | %{ Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -ComputerName $_ | ?{ $_.Name -eq &#8220;NetBackup Client Service&#8221; } } | ft SystemName,Name,StartName You have to use WMI for this coz Get-Service doesn&#8217;t show the Log On As user. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/powershell\/get-a-list-of-services-and-log-on-as-accounts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get a list of services and &#8220;Log On As&#8221; accounts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[401,38],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}