I have recently started using powershell to create scripts to automate mundane tasks. Within this guide, I will explain what commands you need to see running services on your machine & how to export them to a csv file.
Firstly, you will need to open Powershell.
We will use the get-service command.
Type:
get-service
and hit return. This will return a list of all services running on your machine.
To filter this down to just 'running' services. We would type:
get-service | where-Object Status -eq 'running'
If you would like to change the columns returned you can use the select-object command:
get-service | where-Object Status -eq 'running' | select-object DisplayName, Status
If we want to export these results into a csv file, first we need to set a location (to save the file) then use the export-csv command
set-location -path c:\exports
get-service | where-Object Status -eq 'running' | select-object DisplayName, Status | export-csv .\running-services.csv
If your scripts are very long, you could always assign it to a variable and export it later e.g.
$services = get-service | where-Object Status -eq 'running' | select-object DisplayName, Status $services | export-csv .\running-services.csv
