Introduction

 

A while back I wrote a quick script to ‘Restart services on a SharePoint 2010 Farm’, this blog post can be found here.

 

Anyway, I have slightly updated it for SharePoint 2013. Its pretty much the same though I am also restarting the Search process too and also checking that the service exists on the server before restarting.

How you find it useful

 

The Script

 

Here is the script:-

 <pre>
param
(
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$false, HelpMessage='-ServiceNames Optional, provide a set of service names to restart.')]
    [Array]$ServiceNames=@("SharePoint Timer Service","SharePoint Administration", "SharePoint Server Search 15", "World Wide Web Publishing Service","IIS Admin Service")
);

Write-Host "Attempting to get SharePoint Servers in Farm" -ForegroundColor White;
$farm = Get-SPFarm;
$servers = $farm.Servers;
Write-Host "Found" $servers.Count "Servers in Farm (including database servers)" -ForegroundColor White;
foreach($server in $servers)
{
    if($server.Role -ne [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServerRole]::Invalid)
    {
        Write-Host "Attempting to restart services on" $server.Name -ForegroundColor White;
        foreach($serviceName in $ServiceNames)
        {
            $serviceInstance = Get-Service -ComputerName $server.Name -Name $serviceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;
            if($serviceInstance -ne $null)
            {
                Write-Host "Attempting to restart service" $serviceName ".." -ForegroundColor White -NoNewline;
                try
                {
                    $restartServiceOutput="";
                    Restart-Service -InputObject $serviceInstance;
                    Write-Host " Done!" -ForegroundColor Green;
                }
                catch
                {
                    Write-Host "Error Occured: " $_.Message;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
</pre>

Download the script here: Restart-SPServices2013.zip