Remote Restart of Services (with dependencies)

Question

Hello all,
i've a short question about restarting a service on a remote machine with powerhell.
I've tried the following:
get-service -computername ServerXY -name ServiceXY | Set-Service -Status stopped
And it works like a charm. But some services have dependencies. For example DFSR:
PS C:\Windows\system32> get-service -ComputerName ServerXY -name dfsr | Set-Service -Status Stopped
Set-Service : Cannot stop service 'DFS Replication (dfsr)' because it is dependent on other services.
At line:1 char:51
+ get-service -ComputerName ServerXY -name dfsr | Set-Service -Status Stopped
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Set-Servi
ce], ServiceCommandException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ServiceIsDependentOnNoForce,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetServiceCommand
Is there a possiblity to restart services with dependencies remote, too?
Regards, Heyko

Answer 1

Instead of Set-Service, use the Stop-Service cmdlet with the -Force parameter in order to stop services that have dependencies. If you want to restart the service, as you've mentioned, then pipe you Get-Service command to the Restart-Service cmdlet. This
cmdlet will also take the -Force parameter, allowing services to restart even when there are dependent services.
Update: Added info about the Restart-Service cmdlet.