disable service on a large group of 2003 servers

[kvdv99]

I have to disable a service on a large group of Windows Server 2003 machines. Too many machines to do this manually.

What is the easiest way to do this?

Thanks,
Kris

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

group policy

 

[itsp1965]

You can write a script or even a batch file that will read your server list from a text file and then have the SC command stop the service on each server.

 

[kvdv99]

I'm not that familiar with scripting.
What kind of script are you referring to? Powershell, something else?

Thanks for the input guys!

 

[itsp1965]

you can use vbscript, powershell whatever but I think a simple good old batch file (call me old school) will work

 

[kvdv99]

So a simple DOS batch script with the SC command to disable the service? Any idea how I can read a csv file listing all servers inside a batch script? I've never done this.

Thanks for the help,
Kris

 

[itsp1965]

It's been awhile since I wrote one, but lookup the syntax of the FORFILES command which allows you to read a server list in any standard text format and then pass each item on the list to your command