Vista - Restarting ActiveSync from PowerShell - quick scripts

If you use a handheld Windows computer of some kind, you're probably aware
of the occasional issues with managing ActiveSync. It may need to be
stopped, started, or restarted, and there is no direct way to do this
normally.

The following 3 short scripts are all used for this purpose:
Stop-ActiveSync, Start-ActiveSync, and Restart-ActiveSync. Note that they
are actually trivial scripts, which could be shortened down to 1-liners. The
real reason they exist is that they _are_ useful, in a very PowerShellish
way. To stop, start, or restart ActiveSync, I don't have to think about the
application name; I just need to use the verb and the noun. Since ActiveSync
also registers its executable's application path, we can also get a highly
reliable automatic find-and-start through [Diagnostics.Process]::Start().


###<script name="Stop-ActiveSync.ps1">
Param([switch]$PassThru)
# Name is fake-wildcarded to suppress errors if
# Activesync is not running.
$result = Stop-Process -Name [w]cescomm -PassThru
if($PassThru){$result;}
###</script>

###<script name="Start-ActiveSync.ps1">
Param([switch]$PassThru)
# Find-and-launch automatically using ShellExecute and
# registered App Paths.
$result = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("WCESCOMM.EXE");
if($PassThru){$result;}
###</script>

###<script name="Restart-ActiveSync.ps1">
Param([switch]$PassThru)
# Name is fake-wildcarded to suppress errors if
# Activesync is not running.
Stop-Process -Name [w]cescomm
# Find-and-launch automatically using ShellExecute and
# registered App Paths.
$result = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("WCESCOMM.EXE");
if($PassThru){$result;}
###</script>