PowerShell Script - Stop similar services

This script can be very important when you want to schedule some of the similar service to stop at certain time for the maintenance purposes. I had one incident in which Altiris asset explorer used to malfunction after a while and solution to the issue is stop its service and restart thus I created the script to get rid of the situation. Here below is the example which I used to stop all SQL services at once.

Change the Bold Part as per your need.

$services = Get-Service

Foreach ($service in $services) {

If($service.name –like ‘SQL*’) {

$service.stop()

}

}

Regards,

Baij