How can I stop and start services from the command line?

I need to know how to allow a group of users who are not local admins to be able to stop and restart specific services on a window 2008 and windows 2003 server. Ideally would be a script or batch file that they could execute that would allow them to do this. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

I need to know how to allow a group of users who are not local admins to be able to stop and restart specific services on a window 2008 and windows 2003 server. Ideally would be a script or batch file that they could execute that would allow them to do this. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

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To do this remotely you can use the SC...

sc \\\\remotehost command service

For example

sc \\\\myserver start MyService
will start the "MyService" service on \\\\myserver


You can use the query command if you want to know the current status of the service..

There's a lot of other switches but I mostly use start, stop, query.. try using sc alone to see other options..

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