Powershell script for Restarting SharePoint Timer Service (SPTimerV4)

Question

On SharePoint log folder so many ".usage" files are creating and not getting deleting. Due to space issue occurring. So We are restarting "SPTimerV4" service manually. We need to scheduled task scheduler job for restarting every half an hour. Could any please share powershell script how to restart "SPTimerV4" service using powershell . Highly appreciate your help.

Note: We are using single farm of SP 2010 and Task scheduler job creating we can do it.

Answer 1

It is very easy to restart timer service.

The 1st way

restart-service sptimerv4

The 2nd way

net stop SPTIMERV4
net start SPTIMERV4

Also you can check status of the service and start service only if service is stopped.

$ServiceName = 'sptimerv4'
$arrService = Get-Service -Name $ServiceName

while ($arrService.Status -ne 'Running')
{
    Start-Service $ServiceName
    write-host $arrService.status
    write-host 'Service starting'
    Start-Sleep -seconds 60
    $arrService.Refresh()
    if ($arrService.Status -eq 'Running')
    {
        Write-Host 'Service is now Running'
    }
}