Topic: sc-exe

• Service startup type and crash recovery: Set-Service plus sc.exe failure/qfailure

  Set-Service changes startup type, but PowerShell has no cmdlet for a service's failure-recovery actions; sc.exe failure and sc.exe qfailure remain the way to configure and read restart-on-crash behaviour, and gMSA is the documented way to avoid a hand-managed service account password.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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