Control a windows service remotely

Too many standups moving inside a networking environment to control services on different windows machines. This post will show you how to control a service remotely.

Let's find out what's the name of the service which we're trying to control, to do so:

sc.exe \\HOSTNAME query

sc.exe is a service control application included in windows to control services in a remote computer.
The previous command will query the computer 'hostname' to show all of it's available services and statuses.

Now, it's time to control the service:

sc.exe \\HOSTNAME stop "NAMEOFSERVICE"

The full available control commands are available at "sc.exe /?"

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