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		toyg on Oct 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open sou... Looks nice, sadly it's just overkill for what I need. Has anyone built a very simple solution to start/stop an arbitrary set of Windows services across several boxes, in a specific order? It'd be nice to have a simple GUI for this sort of thing. I've started working on it, but I suck at desktop programming (well, at programming in general, probably)...

gecko on Oct 16, 2013 [–]

Unless you really need a GUI, it's insanely easy to do exactly this with PowerShell workflows (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134242.aspx).

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