Vista - Creating a new service using WIN32_service

Does anyone know of any articles that describe how to create a new service
using WIN32_Service? There are plently of examples of how to manipulate
existing services but haven't had any luck on doing a creation of a new one.

On Aug 14, 10:38 am, Nibor <Ni...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any articles that describe how to create a new service
> using WIN32_Service? There are plently of examples of how to manipulate
> existing services but haven't had any luck on doing a creation of a new one.

Good exercise. Let's see, start here:

Create Method of the Win32_Service Class
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389390.aspx

uint32 Create(
string Name,
string DisplayName,
string PathName,
uint8 ServiceType,
uint8 ErrorControl,
string StartMode,
boolean DesktopInteract,
string StartName,
string StartPassword,
string LoadOrderGroup,
string [] LoadOrderGroupDependencies,
string [] ServiceDependencies
);

I'm going to try to come up with some code myself, maybe someone can
beat me to it though.

To be a little more specific here I have tried the following:
ps> $service = [wmiclass]'win32_service'
ps> $newservice = $service.createinstance()

At this point I have tried multiple things: I have tried to assign all
properties like the following:
PS> $newservice.Name = "Service name"
etc...
it works fine until the put is tried I get this:
PS> $newservice.put()
Exception calling "Put" with "0" argument(s): "Exception calling "Put" with
"0" argument(s): "Unsupported parameter ""

I also tried to just call the create but I get this:

PS>$newservice.create('Service Name','Service Name','C:\Program
Files\Service.exe',16,0,'Auto',$False,'domain/user','','','','')
Exception calling "Create" : "Operation is not valid due to the current
state of the object."






"Hal Rottenberg" wrote:

> On Aug 14, 10:38 am, Nibor <Ni...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any articles that describe how to create a new service
> > using WIN32_Service? There are plently of examples of how to manipulate
> > existing services but haven't had any luck on doing a creation of a new one.
>
> Good exercise. Let's see, start here:
>
> Create Method of the Win32_Service Class
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389390.aspx
>
> uint32 Create(
> string Name,
> string DisplayName,
> string PathName,
> uint8 ServiceType,
> uint8 ErrorControl,
> string StartMode,
> boolean DesktopInteract,
> string StartName,
> string StartPassword,
> string LoadOrderGroup,
> string [] LoadOrderGroupDependencies,
> string [] ServiceDependencies
> );
>
> I'm going to try to come up with some code myself, maybe someone can
> beat me to it though.
>
>

Is there a reason for using Win32_Service rather than New-Service
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"Nibor" wrote:

>
> To be a little more specific here I have tried the following:
> ps> $service = [wmiclass]'win32_service'
> ps> $newservice = $service.createinstance()
>
> At this point I have tried multiple things: I have tried to assign all
> properties like the following:
> PS> $newservice.Name = "Service name"
> etc...
> it works fine until the put is tried I get this:
> PS> $newservice.put()
> Exception calling "Put" with "0" argument(s): "Exception calling "Put" with
> "0" argument(s): "Unsupported parameter ""
>
> I also tried to just call the create but I get this:
>
> PS>$newservice.create('Service Name','Service Name','C:\Program
> Files\Service.exe',16,0,'Auto',$False,'domain/user','','','','')
> Exception calling "Create" : "Operation is not valid due to the current
> state of the object."
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Hal Rottenberg" wrote:
>
> > On Aug 14, 10:38 am, Nibor <Ni...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of any articles that describe how to create a new service
> > > using WIN32_Service? There are plently of examples of how to manipulate
> > > existing services but haven't had any luck on doing a creation of a new one.
> >
> > Good exercise. Let's see, start here:
> >
> > Create Method of the Win32_Service Class
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389390.aspx
> >
> > uint32 Create(
> > string Name,
> > string DisplayName,
> > string PathName,
> > uint8 ServiceType,
> > uint8 ErrorControl,
> > string StartMode,
> > boolean DesktopInteract,
> > string StartName,
> > string StartPassword,
> > string LoadOrderGroup,
> > string [] LoadOrderGroupDependencies,
> > string [] ServiceDependencies
> > );
> >
> > I'm going to try to come up with some code myself, maybe someone can
> > beat me to it though.
> >
> >

On Aug 15, 7:42 am, RichS <Ri...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Is there a reason for using Win32_Service rather than New-Service

I don't know about Nibor but I want to do this against a remote
computer.

Me too. I have tried to Push-Location to a remote machine then run
New-service against it and it tries to create locally. I am still trying
though. If anyone has any ideas about using WIN32_Service instead please
post.

"Hal Rottenberg" wrote:

> On Aug 15, 7:42 am, RichS <Ri...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Is there a reason for using Win32_Service rather than New-Service
>
> I don't know about Nibor but I want to do this against a remote
> computer.
>
>