Check a Windows Service, if it’s not running, start it via batch script

Following a system restart, an overnight shutdown or a system update, some Windows services don’t always come up successfully. This script runs via Windows Task Scheduler and accepts one or more service names.

Log files are produced when a service is found to not be running (updated 16/05)

If the service isn’t running, it attempts to start it – and produces a log file to capture the incident.

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An updated Version Control tab for Qlik Sense & QlikView

This updated snippet (see original post from 2018) is available on GitHub, and included in this post.

The main benefits of this script are that it requires a single row addition per log, with no manual increment of the version number, and the version control information can be surfaced by the engine either to the UI or via the APIs.

This assumes a HidePrefix of %.

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