PowerShell: Export Windows Services Health Report

!Issue

Create a PowerShell report of Windows services, startup types and current states for infrastructure monitoring and audit.

✓Solution

01 Collect services

★Recommendations

06 Review changes Compare reports over time to identify services that unexpectedly stop or change configuration.

Use Get-Service to enumerate services and capture Name, DisplayName and Status.

Collect services

Use Get-CimInstance Win32_Service when you need StartMode, StartName or executable path details.

Maintain a list of services that should be running on each server role.

Return a status such as OK, Stopped or Missing when comparing the expected service list with actual state.

Write the result to CSV or convert it to HTML for email reporting.

Compare reports over time to identify services that unexpectedly stop or change configuration.

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