SAS Technical Support is excited to announce that SAS Windows Services Management, or SAS-wsm, is available for use with SAS® 9.4 deployments on Microsoft Windows operating systems. This project is open source, available via SAS Software GitHub, and is free to download, modify, and contribute to. The SAS-wsm utility offers the capabilities of the .servers scripts that are available on UNIX operating systems but it uses Microsoft PowerShell for similar functionality on Windows. This utility provides SAS Windows administrators with convenient start-up and shutdown control and status checking of SAS services on their systems. SAS-wsm is based around a user-defined configuration file system that allows administrators to create various definitions for control over multiple deployments or varying subsets of deployment components. The configuration file defines a consistent order in which services are started and stopped, ensuring that dependencies are always available. Log file-based validation checks are automatically called on components that might take a long time to be usable after initial start-up; a complete start-up is not reported until they are truly available.   To learn more about SAS-wsm, or to obtain the utility and try it out on your system, refer to the project page on GitHub: https://github.com/sassoftware/sas-wsm         ... View more