Powershell - Powertips: Comparing Services

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Compare-Object can help when troubleshooting computers. For example, you should try this to compare the service status on two machines and find out where services are configured differently:

$machine1 = Get-Service –ComputerName server1-or-IP1
$machine2 = Get-Service –ComputerName server2-or-IP2
Compare-Object –ReferenceObject $machine1 –DifferenceObject $machine2 –Property Name,Status –passThru | Sort-Object Name | Select-Object Name, Status, MachineName