Stopping and Restarting Multiple Services using VBS

Here's a script that will stop and then restart multiple services using VB script. It stores the services under an array (in this example, I was working on the BITS, Browser, and wuauserv services). Do note that the Win32_Service.Name property should be used and not the Win32_Service.DisplayName; if you want to make use of the more user-friendly or readable .DisplayName property, you have to modify the query for the variable colListOfServices. This script can also be enhanced to accept arguments from the CLI or read off an input file for a list of services to stop.



This script was created for the following thread from the Microsoft Technet's The Official Scripting Guys Forum:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/thread/3db5d54d-1d7f-46c5-9129-2130a7bdfaa8/