Using Powershell to check service and send email. Posted by newlife. Jan 1. 6, 2. 01. 2 in Powershell, Scripting 3. Ran into an issue with services stopping for no reason and causing IIS to stop. This was happening in the middle of the night and was sporadic in nature, making it hard to find a root cause. As a band aid I created a Powershell 2 script to check for the service, restart if not in a running state and send and email. Here is the script. Checks for a service to be running and starts if needed. Author Me Date 0. Name checksvculti. Func. Check. ServiceparamService. Namearr. Service Get Service Name Service. Nameif arr. Service. Status ne RunningStart Service Service. Name. Func. Mail To myemailyourhost. From myserveryourhost. Subject Servername Service. Name service started. Body Service Service. Name started smtp. Server mysmtpserver. Func. Mail paramTo, From, Subject, Body, smtp. Servermsg new object Net. Create Windows Task Scheduler Using Commas' title='Create Windows Task Scheduler Using Commas' />Mail. Mail. Messagesmtp new object Net. Mail. Smtp. Clientsmtp. Servermsg. From Frommsg. To. AddTomsg. Subject Subjectmsg. Is. Body. Html 1msg. Body Bodysmtp. SendmsgFunc. Check. Create Windows Task Scheduler Using Commas With QuotationService Service. Name IISADMINthe script is pretty simple and really has two defined functions Func. Check. Service and Func. Mail. the last line of the script runs Func. Check. Service  and adds the parameter Service. The software utility Cron is a timebased job scheduler in Unixlike computer operating systems. People who set up and maintain software environments use cron to. Scalability and Performance Monitoring Testing Analyzing on Microsoft Windows 2000 Reference StepbyStep Instructions Tips Tricks. Name where you define the service you want to check. Now to modify this script you only have to change a few settings. The line in Func. Check. Service that calls the Func. Mail you will need to change. And the last line of the script is where you will define the service to check. Change value after Service. How To Install Visual Editor In Eclipse Helios Download. Name to the service you want to check. If you notice in the comments for the script I mention that is must be run in a wrapper script. The reason is do to privileges need to be run. I am running this script in Unrestricted mode. The wrapper script looks like this. Set Execution. Policy Unrestricted forcepowershell. Scriptschecksvculti. Save this file and the Powershell script with whatever names you like and in the same directory. You can now schedule this to run as a scheduled task. Create Windows Task Scheduler Using Commas' title='Create Windows Task Scheduler Using Commas' />You can keep your PC in shipshape by scheduling driver updates, backups and more using Windows own utilities, plus some other mostly free software. In Windows 2000, you can use the Task Scheduler tool in Control Panel to schedule tasks. You can also use the at command to schedule tasks manually. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 10, replaced by the new app Paint 3D.