{"id":1788,"date":"2015-04-29T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2015-04-29T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:50:09","slug":"restart-services-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/2015\/04\/29\/restart-services-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Restart Services Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a PowerShell script to restart important services across a SharePoint farm?  Look no further because all you need is here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The script below, initiated by calling the <em>Restart-Services<\/em> function, restarts the following services on all SharePoint servers in the farm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SharePoint Timer<\/li>\n<li>World Wide Web Publishing Service<\/li>\n<li>IIS Admin Service<\/li>\n<li>SharePoint Administration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">\r\nfunction Restart-Services {\r\n\t[Array]$servers= Get-SPServer | ? {$_.Role -ne [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServerRole]::Invalid}\r\n\t\r\n\tforeach ($server in $servers) {\r\n\t\tRestart-ServiceArray $server\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n\r\nfunction Restart-ServiceArray {\r\n\t[CmdletBinding()]\r\n\tparam([parameter(Position=1, Mandatory=$true)][Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServer]$server)\r\n\tprocess {\r\n\t\t[Array] $services = \"SPTimerV4\", \"W3SVC\", \"IISADMIN\", \"SPAdminV4\"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tforeach($serviceName in $services) {\r\n\t\t\t$serviceInstance = Get-Service -ComputerName $server.Name -Name $serviceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue\r\n\t        \tif($serviceInstance -ne $null) {\r\n\t\t\t\tWrite-Host (\"Restarting \", $serviceName, \" on \", $server -join \"\")\r\n\t\t\t\tRestart-Service -InputObject $serviceInstance -Force\r\n\t\t\t\tWrite-Host \"Done`n\" -ForegroundColor Green\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\telse {\r\n\t\t\t\tWrite-Host (\"Could not find \", $serviceName, \" on \", $server -join \"\") -ForegroundColor Red\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Simply add any additional services you want to restart to the <em>$services<\/em> array in the <em>Restart-ServiceArray<\/em> function and away you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a PowerShell script to restart important services across a SharePoint farm? 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