in reply to Determine service status

Have you considered using command-line options like:

* sc-query
* Powershell :
        Get-Service -ComputerName RemoteComputerName | Where Status -eq "Running"
* WMI:
        Get-WmiObject -computername $Server win32_service |Select-Object Status, Name, DisplayName, pscomputername, Startname

                "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." -- Dr. Seuss

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