PowerShell Stopping and Starting Windows Services on Remote Computer

Question

I have a very basic PowerShell that accepts a list of Windows Server and Services on them and then stops the Services

Get-Service -ComputerName machine1 -Name service1 -ErrorAction Stop | Stop-Service -WarningAction SilentlyContinue

Although I had explicitly mentioned -ErrorAction as Stop, in a case if one of the Server is not reachable, the Powershell doesn't come back. How do I change this behaviour at least in a way to stop processing after a certain amount of time as "n" secs which again can be passed thru parameter?

Simplest would be to enclose it in a Test-Connection like this if (Test-Connection machine1 -Count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { ... } — Lieven Keersmaekers
– Lieven Keersmaekers, Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 5:01
Wonderful, I just thought of making it a little easier by wrapping the script like this if (Test-Connection -ComputerName machine1 -Quiet) {all my current code} Thanks a ton for your suggestion of Test-Connection — Rupesh
– Rupesh, Commented Jul 19, 2018 at 5:56

Lieven Keersmaekers · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-19 06:05:01Z

_{Incorporating both comments, we end up with following}

Enclose the current script in a Test-Connection that allows you to first verify if a computer is actually reachable:

if (Test-Connection -ComputerName machine1 -Quiet) { all your current code }

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