I have 200 XP machines that require a service to be started. I am trying to use Powershell to sort through a list of workstations and restart a specific service is it is stopped. I am new to Powershell, I have been using PSexec to connect to the new machines and start the service. Any help would be appreciated. I saw some post about the rget-service command, but it fails on me.

Ray

$remoteservice = (get-wmiobject -class "Win32_Service" -namespace "root\CIMV2" -computername HOSTNAME | where {$_.Displayname -like "DISPLAYNAME"})

$remoteservice.StartService()

Have Fun/BS

Sweet, I had no idea Jack Bauer used PowerShell.

Anyway, to finish up the example, here's how you can loop on your 200 boxes:

$ServiceName = "My Service"
get-content computers.txt | % {
$remoteservice = gwmi win32_service -comp $_ | ? { $_.displayname -like $ServiceName }
$remoteservice.StartService()
}

Note the use of aliases:
% = foreach-object
gwmi = get-wmiobject
? = where-object (or its other alias "where")