Repair-VSSWriter

1.0.1

Repair-VSSWriter.psm1

                                
Function Get-VSSwriterStatus {

Param()

 #Requires -RunAsAdministrator

##Populate Variables

$Writers = vssadmin list writers | Select-String -Pattern "Writer name","State"

$WriterNames = $Writers | Select-String -SimpleMatch "Writer name"

$WriterStates = $Writers | Select-String -SimpleMatch "State"

$Total = ($WriterNames | measure-Object).count

$NameCounter = 0

$StateCounter = 0

##Build HashTable

$Hash = @{}

While ($NameCounter -lt $Total) { $WriterNames | ForEach-Object {

$NameFormat = $WriterNames[$NameCounter].ToString().trimStart("Writer name :").Trim("'")

$StateFormat = $WriterStates[$StateCounter].ToString().TrimStart("State: ")

$Hash.Add($NameFormat,$StateFormat)

$NameCounter = $NameCounter +1

$StateCounter = $StateCounter +1

}

##Sort

$Hash.GetEnumerator() | Sort-Object -Property Name

}

}

Function Repair-VSSwriterStatus {

Param()

[CmdletBinding()]

$VSS = Get-VSSwriterStatus

$Status = $VSS.GetEnumerator() | Where-Object {$_.Value -notlike "*Stable*"}

ForEach ($Object in $Status) {

Switch ($Object.Name) {

'ASR Writer' {Restart-Service VSS -Force}

'BITS Writer' {Restart-Service BITS -Force}

'Certificate Authority' {Restart-Service CertSvc -Force}

'COM+ REGDB Writer' {Restart-Service VSS -Force}

'DFS Replication service writer' {Restart-Service DFSR -Force}

'DHCP Jet Writer' {Restart-Service DHCPServer -Force}

'FRS Writer' {Restart-Service NtFrs -Force}

'NtFrs' {Restart-Service srmsvc -Force}

'FSRM writer' {Restart-Service AppHostSvc -Force}

'IIS Config Writer' {Restart-Service srmsvc -Force}

'IIS Metabase Writer' {Restart-Service IISADMIN -Force}

'Microsoft Exchange Replica Writer' {Restart-Service MSExchangeRepl -Force}

'Microsoft Exchange Writer' {Restart-Service MSExchangeIS -Force }

'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer' {Restart-Service vmms -Force}

'MSMQ Writer (MSMQ)' {Restart-Service MSMQ -Force}

'MSSearch Service Writer' {Restart-Service WSearch -Force}

'NPS VSS Writer' {Restart-Service EventSystem -Force}

'NTDS' {Restart-Service NTDS -Force}

'OSearch VSS Writer' {Restart-Service OSearch -Force}

'OSearch14 VSS Writer' {Restart-Service OSearch14 -Force}

'Registry Writer' {Restart-Service VSS -Force}

'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer' {Restart-Service VSS -Force}

'SMS Writer' {Restart-Service SMS_SITE_VSS_WRITER -Force}

'SPSearch VSS Writer' {Restart-Service SPSearch -Force}

'SPSearch4 VSS Writer' {Restart-Service SPSearch4 -Force}

'SqlServerWriter' {Restart-Service SQLWriter -Force}

'System Writer' {Restart-Service CryptSvc -Force}

'TermServLicensing' {Restart-Service TermServLicensing -Force}

'WDS VSS Writer' {Restart-Service WDSServer -Force}

'WIDWriter' {Restart-Service WIDWriter -Force}

'WINS Jet Writer' {Restart-Service WINS -Force}

'WMI Writer' {Restart-Service Winmgmt -Force}

}

}

Get-VSSwriterStatus

}