PowerShell Service – How to Configure Auto-Restart After Failure

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On a Windows system, in the Service console, there is a recovery tab to configure actions for a service in case of failure.

How can I configure this with PowerShell?

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There is currently no native PowerShell cmdlet to manage the service recovery.
However, to auto-restart a service when it fails you can use SC.
(In a PowerShell prompt you must precede it with & and use the full name sc.exe)

& sc.exe failure msftpsvc reset= 30 actions= restart/5000

The official documentation is on Microsoft Docs under Sc Failure

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compare-object (get-content one.txt) (get-content two.txt)

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