Stop a few services on a list of computers

StopFLMM.ps1

function WriteLog($info, $errormsg=$false)
{
  #Funtion will write log entries along with a time and date stamp
  
	$nowdate = date -format G
	if ($errormsg) {
		Write-Host "[$nowdate] $info" -foregroundcolor Red
	}
	else {
		Write-Host "[$nowdate] $info"
	}
	
	"[$nowdate] $info" | out-file "c:\temp\newflex\StopFLMM.txt" -enc ASCII -append
	
}

#load the correct assembly so we can use the serviceprocess object
[void][reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname("system.serviceprocess")

#serversfile is a text file containing the list of servers to be updated. All 
#server names are separated by CRLF
$serversfile = "C:\temp\newflex\servers.txt"

#get the contents of the servers file
$servers = get-content($serversfile)

foreach ($server in $servers)
{
	
	writelog "-------------------------------"

	#verify that the server is up by pinging it
	$PingStatus = Gwmi Win32_PingStatus -Filter "Address = '$server'" | Select-Object StatusCode

	#if the statuscode property is 0, the ping succeeded.
	if ($PingStatus.StatusCode -eq 0) {
		WriteLog "Getting handle to Local Flexlm Service on $server"

		#get a handle to the flexlmmonitor service on the remote server
		$svcobj = new-object system.serviceprocess.servicecontroller('flexlmmonitor',$server)
        $svcobjflm = new-object system.serviceprocess.servicecontroller('Local autodesk flexlm',$server)
		$svcobj.Refresh()
        $svcobjflm.Refresh()
        set-service -name 'flexlmmonitor' -computername $server -startuptype Manual  #start autodesk flexlm service
        set-service -name 'local autodesk flexlm' -computername $server -startuptype Automatic  #start autodesk flexlm service
        
        #if the service isn't stopped, stop it before attempting to overwrite it.
		if ($svcobj.status -ne 'Stopped'){
            $svcobj.Stop() #stop the service
			$svcobj.WaitForStatus('Stopped',(new-timespan -seconds 10)) #wait for the status
			$svcobj.Refresh()

			#check to see if the service is stopped OK.
			if ($svcobj.Status -eq 'Stopped') { #we stopped the service successfully
                writelog "Stopped FLMM on $server"}
                #make sure the service is set to manual
                
                  
            
        }
        else {writelog "FLMM was already stopped on $server"}
        
        if ($svcobjflm.Status -eq 'Stopped') { #start the service
            $svcobjflm.Start()
            $svcobjflm.WaitForStatus('Running',(new-timespan -seconds 10)) #wait for the status
            			        $svcobjflm.Refresh() 

            if ($svcobjflm.Status -eq 'Running') { #start the service
                writelog "Started FlexLM Service OK on $server"}
        
        }
        else {writelog "FlexLM Service was already started on $server"}

    }    
}