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Is it possible to force to kill windows service using Octopus?


My octopus installs Windows Service in a machine, but sometimes it can't stop the service so it doesn't deploy.

If I manually go to the machine and try to stop the service, I can't. But if I first go to Task Manager and kill the process of the service, then I can stop the service.

Does Octopus already have a built-in feature to do this for me? Or should I create a .bat to execute it before reinstalling windows service?


Solution

  • If you import the step template Stop Service With Kill you can add this as a deployment step.

    The documentation here provides a step by step way to do this