How to manage processes and services

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10/03/2017

Because SMB is often blocked, and Remote Desktop is not supported, managing processes and services on Nano Server may require a different pattern. PowerShell Remoting over Windows Remote Management (WSMan) and web-based Server Management Tools (SMT) can provide a robust method to manage processes and services on Nano Server.

Connect to Nano Server remotely.

To access Nano Server remotely, please follow the steps in How to access Nano Server.
To manage processes

To list all running processes:
```
Get-Process
```
You can filter by name:
```
Get-Process -Name *svc*
```
Or use a "where" clause for more powerful filtering:
```
Get-Process | where PeakPagedMemorySize -gt 100MB
```
Tip Once you’ve typed "where" and the following space, you can press Ctrl+Spacebar for an IntelliSense list of possible property values.

To find out which properties a process object has:
```
Get-Process | Get-Member
```
To kill one or more processes, pipe the result of a Get-Process cmdlet to Stop-Process:
```
Get-Process -Name winword | Stop-Process
```
Or use Stop-Process directly:
```
Stop-Process -Name groove, notepad
```
To start a process:
```
Start-Process -FilePath C:\Windows\notepad.exe
```
To list the top 10 processes with the highest CPU utilization:
```
Get-Process | sort -Descending | select -First 10
```

To manage services

To list all running services:

Get-Service

You can filter by name:

Get-Service -Name win*

Or use a where clause for more powerful filtering:

Get-Service | where Status -eq Stopped

To register a service:

New-Service -Name myService -BinaryPathName C:\Services\myService.exe -StartupType Manual

To start a service, pipe the result of a Get-Service cmdlet to Start-Service:

Get-Service -Name wec* | Start-Service

Or use Start-Service directly:

Start-Service -Name wec*

To stop a service:

Get-Service -Name wec* | Stop-Service

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