Comments on: How to Create a Windows Service Using PowerShell http://halr9000.com/article/444 (powershell & other stuff) Thu, 17 May 2012 06:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: halr9000 http://halr9000.com/article/444/comment-page-1#comment-6200 halr9000 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:30:21 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/444#comment-6200 True. In the context of the newsgroup thread this makes more sense. My reply was "you could use srvany, or you can insert them using powershell". I wanted this blog post to be more generic in nature. True. In the context of the newsgroup thread this makes more sense. My reply was “you could use srvany, or you can insert them using powershell”. I wanted this blog post to be more generic in nature.

]]> By: Norman Rasmussen http://halr9000.com/article/444/comment-page-1#comment-6199 Norman Rasmussen Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:04:54 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/444#comment-6199 Your PowerShell script will only work to create a service from an existing executable that knows what to do when it's running. Most executables don't handle this an so they won't ever change from 'starting...' to 'started'. Firedaemon is just a tiny bit of glue that launches the real executable and then tells the service controller that all is good. Your PowerShell script will only work to create a service from an existing executable that knows what to do when it’s running. Most executables don’t handle this an so they won’t ever change from ‘starting…’ to ‘started’.

Firedaemon is just a tiny bit of glue that launches the real executable and then tells the service controller that all is good.

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