WMI Archives - DBAduck https://www.dbaduck.com/tag/wmi/ DBA Wed, 18 May 2022 18:48:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.dbaduck.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cropped-dbaducklogo-2-32x32.png WMI Archives - DBAduck https://www.dbaduck.com/tag/wmi/ 32 32 Get SQL Server Service Accounts with WMI https://www.dbaduck.com/get-sql-server-service-accounts-with-wmi/ https://www.dbaduck.com/get-sql-server-service-accounts-with-wmi/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:57:05 +0000 http://dbaduck.wpengine.com/?p=75 Today I was tasked with retrieving the SQL Server Service accounts to validate them in Active Directory.  I wanted a simple way to get them and show the account names for each SQL Server service.  I knew that you could get the service in PowerShell with Get-Service.  I also new that PowerShell could get the […]

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]]> Today I was tasked with retrieving the SQL Server Service accounts to validate them in Active Directory.  I wanted a simple way to get them and show the account names for each SQL Server service.  I knew that you could get the service in PowerShell with Get-Service.  I also new that PowerShell could get the service with Get-WmiObject –class Win32_Service. But neither one had the ServiceAccount property.

So I turned to WMI under SMO with PowerShell.  The script below has the details of a script I named GetSqlServices_WMI with a parameter of $sqlserver.

param (
[string]$sqlserver
)
# Call this with .\filename.ps1 "servername"
[void][reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlWmiManagement")
$wmi = New-Object -TypeName "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.ManagedComputer" -Args $sqlserver
$wmi.Services | Select DisplayName, Type, StartMode, ServiceState, ServiceAccount | ft -auto

The call is in the code.  The results will have DisplayName, Type, StartMode, ServiceState and ServiceAccount listed in a table with column headers.

Great way to interrogate the Services from SQL Server.

Available Properties to you are as follows:

  • Parent
  • AcceptsPause
  • AcceptsStop
  • Description
  • DisplayName
  • ErrorControl
  • ExitCode
  • PathName
  • ProcessId
  • ServiceAccount
  • StartMode
  • Type
  • IsHadrEnabled (because I am using 11.0 SMO)
  • StartupParameters
  • Dependencies
  • AdvancedProperties
  • Urn
  • Name
  • Properties
  • UserData
  • State

With Methods

  • Alter
  • ChangeHadrServiceSetting (because I am using 11.0 SMO)
  • ChangePassword
  • Equals
  • GetHashCode
  • GetType
  • Initialize
  • Pause
  • Refresh
  • REsume
  • SetServiceAccount (handy little guy)
  • Start
  • STop
  • ToString
  • Validate

The link to the documentation for this object is here (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.ManagedComputer).

Enjoy and happy scripting.

@DBAduck

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